(VG Nett) siterte 28.06.2010 en status oppdatering fra Facebook, som ble laget i forbindelse med drapene på de 4 norske soldatene i Afghanistan.

«ALLAHU AKBAR! Norske terrorister drept i Afghanistan! Alhamdulillah, lovpriset være Allah, dette skal feires!»

De ringte da naturligvis til flere muslimer i Norge (de samme som alltid) og lurte på hva vår umiddelbare reaksjon var når vi hørte slikt, og reaksjonen var noenlunde den samme. Vi var imot det, og selv om vi ikke nødvendigvis støtter krigen i Afghanistan, eller i Irak. Så ønsker vi heller ikke at mennesker skal dø, uansett hvilken bakgrunn de måtte ha.

Jeg argumenterte også lenge med journalisten om dette via epost i ettertid av telefonsamtalen, siden jeg mente det var utrolig dårlig journalistikk, det å legge ut denne saken – og det var så tydelig at den blir brukt til å øke oppslutningen rundt deres egen nettside, at det er vel knapt nok noen som kan være uenig i dette…

I mine øyne, og også mange andre sine – Så har VG i denne artikkelen, og i videre artikler om denne saken, bevisst satt fokus på en sak de visste ville være polariserende og stigmatiserende for muslimer i Norge – De valgte allikevel å trykke den.

Min mening ble da:

- Man skal aldri glede seg over at noen har dødd

Også den norske konvertitten Yousef Assidiq, som var initiativtaker til karikaturdemonstrasjonen i Oslo i februar i år, tar sterk avstand fra uttalelsen til Mohammad på Facebook.

- En ting er at folk må få lov til å være uenig i at norske styrker opererer i Afghanistan. Men man skal aldri glede seg over at noen har dødd, sier Assidiq til VG Nett.

Han avviser at norske soldater i Afghanistan blir sett på som terrorister som fortjener å komme hjem i kiste.

- Hver får stå for sine egne uttalelser. Hvis han mener dette er en utbredt oppfatning blant muslimer i Norge, tar han feil. Reaksjonen på dette hos muslimer er som i resten av samfunnet ellers – at det er trist, sier han.

Ikke la deg bli diktert!

Når noen sier slikt i media, så antar alle at det er meningen til alle muslimer i Norge. Det gamle ordtaket “den som tier, den samtykker”, det gjelder i denne situasjonen.

Det er på tide at vi snakker for oss selv, og ikke lar andre prate for oss. For disse uttalelsene ødelegger for muslimer i Norge, og det er en gavepakke til fremmedhatere og politikere som spiller på frykt.

Kom med ditt standpunkt, ikke bare lat som du ikke bryr deg, og tro at denne saken bare går over, for den vil komme tilbake igjen, som alltid. Det er på tide at vi tar kontrollen, og tar ordet. Start idag!

Skal man feire at noen er døde, selv om vi ikke liker dem? En krig kan aldri være morsom, festlig eller noe som helst. Vi burde heller gjøre Du’a om at krigen skal ta slutt, enn at flere skal dø. Hva mener dere?

Ikke la noen definere deg, definer deg selv!

I’ve been in quite some arguments lately, and some thoughts keeps circulating in my head, in my heart and in my soul. Where is the love?

We live in this world, and we are not alone, there are around 7 billion peoples living here with us.

What is wrong with the world, when the biggest surprise you can give another person, is to show some love? Our lies, are greater than the truth. How can we spread the truth, when all we do is – living in a lie?

This world, is not made for me, it’s not made for you, it’s not made for them, and it’s not made for those – This world is made for ALL OF US!

And, here comes the testimony of faith,

The biggest irony of all, is that we’re mostly better people than we pretend towards ourself and show verbally in conversations with others.

If you saw someone crash with their bike, and you were the first person at the scene, what would your first question be?

- What is your religion?
- Who is your Prophet, and can you tell me his whole history?
- What do you have to say about people doing bad things in the name of a faith shared by billions?

I doubt it, and I seriously hope that the first question would be,

- Are you okay? Let me look at that wound!
- Oh, this doesn’t look good, let me call 911.

So, why do we practice our daily life, differently from how we express it verbally, or while we chat online..

No matter which faith, or how we define our values in life, regardless if we believe in God, or if we believe in some icons, or if we just believe in ourself….

…there will be someone who disagree, there will be someone whom believes in the direct opposite.

Why do you think, that every human made unique?
Why do you believe that we’ve gotten the opportunity to control our own life – no strings attached – no remote control – no owner – no chains – no nothing?

…there will come a day, where we’ll be held responsible for our actions, good and bad – There are no justice in 2010, but there will come a day of justice, and there will come a day, a day where all lies are spread apart from the truth.

Never can a lie become the truth, so while we live our lives in a lie, all our good deeds become a part of it, so how can we accept to ourself – That we can define others, but not ourselves?

It all comes down to the beginning - Where is the love?

All we show is blunt arrogance, it’s more important to BE right, than to DO right.
…and when we do right, we complain when the favor isn’t returned.

We’ve been told since the early Greek Philosophers, and probably before that also, to have patience, because being patient is the biggest virtue. Even in Norwegian we have our saying ‘The one who waits for something good – Never waits for nothing’

And, now comes the important part:

We’re all ONE out of EVERYONE, no matter how rich you are, no matter how powerful you are, and no matter how famous you are – you can never be more than ONE.

If we can’t be greater in numbers, we can define our differences in other ways, and this is the problem in the world today. Everybody want to be greater than another, everybody want to excel each other in fame, materialistic goods and power.

From this day being, I don’t want to be defined as a muslim, from this day being I don’t want to be described as a Norwegian. From this day, and onwards, I want to be defined as a human being. A valued individual.

I will have my faith, and it will be the reason of my actions, and I want you all to judge me from my actions, not my imaginary intentions, and not my faith, not my nationality, and most of all, not from my color. I would wish that the whole world could look through my eyes, because I am colorblind.

While we argue about details, children are dying, elders are suffering, people are starving and other valued individual human beings like myself are driven out of their countries, all based on the lack of tolerance, the lack of universal respect for our differences.

In my eyes, the human kind of today, have sunk down to the bottom of the ocean in terms of moral, ethics and the view on our responsibility towards our neighbor and fellow humans of the world.

Today our focus on conflicts, injustice, the ongoing rotten reality of suffering among those 7 billion people we share the world with – is on who started it, who’s fault it were and how we best can punish them for their actions.

So, may I ask one more time – Where is the love?

I’m really sorry for spreading something that was taken as anti-semitism, and I am far from a racist, nazist or in any way intolerant towards different thinkers.

I’ve learnt some important things from that thread, and that is to not write when I’m angry, or sad. Because I was both at the time I wrote it, as my dear friend was down in the boats to Gaza, and I knew his boat was attacked. It took two days before I got confirmed wether he was alive or not.

This ofcourse doesn’t excuse my inthoughtfull way of spreading hate towards a group of people, and I deeply apologize for doing this.

The Palestine – Israel debate, war and “situation” – is the only thing that can drive me out of my head. I’ve had a lot of harsh arguments at home also – much worse than those we had when I converted to Islam. So this is something that truly touch my heart, and I’m really sorry – that you had to suffer from my lack of self-control.

I’ve learnt from it, and it won’t happend again.

Sincerly,

Yousef Assidiq