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| Apa positif, negatif pertanyaan Ngeh Koo Ham? Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:39 PM PDT 2 OKT — Ketika semua umat tertumpu kepada sikap tidak peduli Amerika atas filem anti-Islam keluaran rakyatnya, ada pula menumpukan kepada kekeliruan Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham atas reaksi umat sejagat atas keparat filem "Innocence of Muslims". Ketika Islam yang prihatin mengadakan tunjuk perasaan di Kuala Lumpur dan kota-kota lain di seluruh negara, sekumpulan anti-pembangkang menyebu pejabat DAP Ipoh kerana marahkan kekeliruan Ngeh dan mungkin hilang tumpuan kepada kebaculan Amerika. Jangan sampai sikap anti-DAP menyebabkan isu filem durjana rakyat Amerika itu jadi perkara kedua. Sesiapa boleh bersikap negatif atas pandangan Ngeh dan mengapa pula kita boleh melihatnya secara positif? Apa sebenarnya yang Ngeh timbulkan? Apa yang saya faham dari apa yang tersiar ialah pertama, dia bertanya apakah reaksi kerajaan Khairy Jamaluddin, Ketua Pemuda Umno kerana pendiriannya terhadap agamanya atau justeru politik? Yang kedua, ialah kekeliruannya dan saya peliknya terhadap umat Islam seantero dunia bangkit dan sanggup mati apabila Nabinya, Muhammad SAW dicerca dan dihina. Tentang Khairy, biarlah Khairy menjelaskannya dan topik itu didebat dan dipertikai. Tentang yang kedua, semua orang — politik dan tidak politik — telah memberikan reaksi yang negatif terhadap kekeliruan Ngeh. Dia sudah dibenci. Mengapa kita mengambil kekeliruannya itu secara positf? Ngeh dipercaya mewakili berjuta manusia di dunia yang tidak faham atas reaksi umat Islam apabila agamanya dihina dan Nabinya dicerca. Semua orang MCA, MIC dan bukan Islam di dunia rasa pelik dan keliru atas sikap umat Islam sehingga masing-masing sanggup mati. Trend di dunia sekarang termasuk yang mengaku Kristian agak lumrah mempersenda agama dan Nabinya. Mereka mengaku Jesus itu sebagai sebahagian dari tuhan tetapi ada yang tidak rasa apa-apa memperlecehnya. Mereka tidak berbalah seperti yang dilakukan Islam apabila agama dan Jesus dihina dan dicerca. Malah ramai yang boleh bergurau dengan kejadian seperti itu. Ngeh mungkin lurus bendul lalu melahirkan kekeliruannya. Ia boleh dilihat secara negetif dan boleh dibuat secara positif. Ngeh adalah orang politik. Hidup mati orang politik bergantung pada undi dan sokongan orang ramai. Ngeh adalah orang yang memerlukan undi rakyat dalam PRU 13. Dia mahu rakyat bukan sekadar menyokongnya, tetapi menyokng partinya, DAP dan sekutu DAP yang lain termasuk PAS. Kalau dia anti-Islam jelaslah umat Islam tidak menyokongnya. Ia menundang bencana buat politiknya dan politik partinya. Maka dia tidak buat kerja bodoh itu. Tetapi dia mahukan satu jawapan kepada kekeliruannya. Pada saat kita ada JAKIM dan ada YADIM yang tugas besarnya adalah dakwah, mengapa masing-masing tidak mengambil peluang menjelaskan kepada umat Islam meletakkan Nabi Muhamad SAW adalah segala-galanya selain Allah. Inilah peluang kita memberitahu Ngeh bahawa kedatangannya sebagai Nabi adalah membawa rahmat kepada alam iaitu Islam. Rahmat itu untuk nikmat manusia semua agama dan bangsa, semua binatang liar dan ternakan, bahkan malaikat, bumi, luatan dan langit mendapat rahmat. Kerana itu Islam melihat Nabi Muhamad lebih penting dan lebih berharga dari dari semua isi bumi dan langit. Tidak sempurna iman seseorang jika cintanya kepada dirinya, ayah bondanya, dan segala isi bumi dan langit lebih dari cintanya kepada Nabi SAW. Bagi orang Islam biar semua manusia dan makluk mati, asal jangan Nabinya dicerca dan dihina. Bukan senang hendak berdakwa kepada orang bukan Islam. Tetapi Ngeh telah membuka pintu untuk penjelasan. Mengapa kita tidak ambil peluang. Saya yakin Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin yang rapat dengan Ngeh boleh mengisi ruang dakwah ini menjelaskan kepada Ngeh dan rakan-rakannya bagi menghilang kekeliruannya. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. |
| In response to ‘Innocence of Muslims’ Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:32 PM PDT OCT 2 — There has been quite a brouhaha in response to the "Innocence of Muslims" video made by some bigoted individual in America. There were demonstrations in much of the Muslim world, which resulted in the killing of four Americans. Interestingly, a minister in Pakistan even went so far as to offer a bounty to anyone who kills the film-maker. Of course, I find the production of such a film deliberately hurtful and irresponsible. It is completely understandable for Muslims to want to vent and protest. But as a Muslim, I was disappointed by the violence of these protests. It is also embarrassing to note that much of the anger was directed not at the individual who made the video but rather at the American government. Not only did the American government play no role whatsoever in the making of the film, it was also quickly condemned by both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The American government even paid thousands of dollars for airtime in Pakistani television to explain that the American government condemned the film. From my vantage point, the Obama administration has bent over backwards trying to prove to Muslims everywhere that the film has nothing to do with them. There is a general notion that as Muslims, we are being victimised on a daily basis, and that the chief villain in this is the West. A couple of weeks ago, I could not help but to feel victimised myself whilst listening to a Friday sermon at a mosque in Langkawi which delineated the history of Muslim persecution as perpetrated by various parties. The sermon kicked off naturally by alluding to a vague enemy called "the West", which has been undermining Islam for many years. It then built on the victim mentality by giving the history of how the Prophet Muhammad was treated in his lifetime by his enemies like Abu Jahal. The history lesson then continued with a fairly elaborate account of how the "West" has consistently insulted the religion. What I find interesting is that not once did the sermon mention what the response of the Prophet was to these insults. I am no ulama and I am certainly not trying to issue a fatwa, but from the meagre amount of Islamic knowledge I possess, the Prophet Muhammad's character is one that we should all try to emulate as much as possible. It is a shame that we seemed to have forgotten a most basic tenet of the Islamic faith in this regard. Lesley Hazleton, a writer on Islam, once said in a TED talk with regards to the Quran, that it is "so easy to interpret, that is to misinterpret" the text. It appears that we like to take things selectively, to accept them only when they are aligned with our preconceived notions. What I find dangerous is that almost no Muslim public figure has come forward to condemn both the video and, more importantly, the violent response of some of the protesters. A caveat is in order. Axiomatically I do not think that all of these protesters revel in violence. Only a handful of them are irresponsible and dangerous. But what is more revealing is the restrained (almost non-existent) response from Muslim commentators about the violence of these protests. It is almost implying that the violence is legitimate. Many a commentator has stated that the extremes from both ends of the spectrum have indeed become strange bedfellows: the bigot who made the video and the violent Islamist protesters. They would never admit to it but they need one another, an almost symbiotic relationship. "I do something which will surely make you angry!" says the bigot. "In response I will use that as an excuse to go out and do violent stuff!" says the latter. Indeed they are both happier from the exchange. This symbiotic relationship unfortunately has negative repercussions for Islam. The stereotype — that Muslims are nothing more than just violent people who would pounce on any chance to commit violent and random acts — is reinforced. Let us move beyond this victim mentality. It is a mental trap, which I fear will stall our progress. So intent are we at pointing out the supposed damage that the West has done to us that we have forgotten to get our act together. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. |
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