My Reflections on Boston Bombing

Boston Bombing is the latest in the war on terror: police crackdown on Middle Eastern looking people;  suspected individuals chased, beaten to a pulp and shot several times in encounter - of course unapproved by any measure of law; hostile towards liberation theology and much more. The bombing has opened a new chapter in America’s history of intolerance and extremism.

The news has worked people in the US up to a frenzy. Obama in a recent speech praised Boston for overcoming the face of evil. The only face of evil is the mostly white men (and women) in business suits on streets and who callously use insults and assaults to subvert their freedom of expression to the advantage of their short-term hate fest, breeding more insensitivity, discrimination, insecurities and outright cancellation of democracy. The real face of evil is the citizenry who are tracking down and maiming the Muslim community: Muslim Palestinian woman, physician by profession in Medford, Massachusetts harassed and punched by a white man for allegedly being a terrorist, two men detained in Boston’s Logan Airport for speaking Arabic, two Chechnyan students shot, one killed. The American public is responsible for the outrage not Muslims. The American public has becom dangerous and classical vigilantes.

For Muslims it’s all too familiar. Almost as soon as the smoke of any bombing is cleared, we know from long experience that immediately the finger of blame will be pointed in our direction. Until Muslims insist and boot out those who are demeaning us, we will increasingly all pay the price of Islamaphobia which is wantonly poisoning the masses against Islam. The media is like a carcinogenic toxin, the more one is exposed to it, the more one is damaged.

The liberation of human mind from the state of ignorance is the epitome of Islam. In 611 AD, Islam brought progressive development, which began in antiquity, reason and challenges to the established religious and Geo-political order. It promoted intellectual interchange, scientific advancement and opposed superstition, racial discrimination, gender inequality and abuses of corporate power. Enlightenment was born out of the Qur'an with the purpose of reforming society using Tawheed and crystallized into a sensitive, just, clean, respectful and moral world view. 

While the Christian world in 2013 still struggles with counter-reformation belief of brown boogie men in beards.

The American news officials have failed to take into consideration the fact that the US Navy Seals had seven agents present prior to the marathon at the exact location of the bombing and a bomb squads was performing a controlled explosion drill. This evidence is reliable enough to support that the US government is responsible for attack.

This is the not the first time that the US, as a hostile government force has targeted its own civilians, politicking the event as a terrorist attack. The reason is because despite their assertion to peace, the US forces have always been hungry for war because the power and money it procures.