Submitted by MOHAMAD NOZZI (Singapore), May 6, 2009 at 21:34
This is the last comment I would send to all our muslims people.
We, muslims, have to follow the right path of Muhammad to preach the message of Allah to all non-muslims so that they might become muslims to be saved from the Last Judgment Day.
We, moderate muslims, discourage to use violence, vandalism and etc. to preach out to Muslims.
Exerting violence, vandalism and etc. to reach out to muslims, could not cause muslims to repent. However, it could cause adversed effect as what you see, Plato, to accuse muslims badly and is too obstinate to accept to become muslims as a result of violence, vandalism and etc. from muslim extremists.
We, moderate muslims, fight back only when non-muslims start to fight with us. I bear the witness for non-muslims that we, moderate muslims, did not/dod not create trouble in Singapore and we'll never since our Government encourages different religions to respect each other. As we, muslims, and non-muslims respect each other, they would not be any violence, vandalism and etc. Many religions in Singapore, such as, Buddhism, Crhistianity, Catholics, Muslims and etc., have actively involved in preaching. However, we, muslims, in Singapore do not create trouble to non-muslims in preaching to us. But we would rather preach to them the same instead of offending them. As all religions respect each other in Singapore, there is why there is no terrorist in Singapore.
Some muslims might argue with me that Prophet Muhammad did fight in the past. However, you should bear in mind that if you really browse through the Cambridge History of Islam, you would have noticed that Prophet Muhammad was eagerly involved in preaching work instead of creating trouble. As he began his mission to reach out to the Public in year 610, many Meccans did not respect our religion but started to protest against Muhammad. However, Muhammad did not fight back but to seek for revelation form Allah for help. Muhammad began to hide from the persecution from Meccans after year 610. Meccans continued to persecute him and Allah did not give any inspiration to Muhammad to fight and it implies that Allah indeed discourages fighting. Muhammad began to fight back through the continued persecution from Meccans and that caused the war to break out.
From the extracted and summarized Cambridge History of Islam, it shows us that Muhammad actively involved in preaching the words to non-muslims. For instance, if all religions can be in harmony and they respect each other, do you think they would be violence, vandalism and etc. Certainly! Violence, vandalism and etc., would one day become a history. As muslims preach to non-muslims, non-muslims just listen and if they don't accept, just ignore and walk off instead of fighting and quarrelling. For non-muslims to preach to muslims, muslims would do the same if they do not accept just ignore them and walk off instead of fighting and quarrelling. One day all the religions will be in harmony if all of us keep mind to respect other religions instead of offending them. In time to come, violence, vandalism and etc. will one day become a history.
To muslim extremists, to reach out to non-muslims, it needs not to use violence, vandalism and etc. since it could cause situation worse. What if you have beaten non-muslims, do you think these non-muslims will become muslims. Certainly they will not accept. Instead it would turn up to be hatred and strong objection. Recalling Muhammad while he was on earth. His purpose is to reach out to non-muslims so that they could repent. As the places his followers had gone through, such as, North America and Spain, they are not muslim countries nowadays, it implies that Allah is not so cruel that he does not want non-muslims to die but wants them to repent. If all religions would respect each other, nobody from one religion would offend any one religion that preaches to them, there should not be any violence, vandalism and etc. since all religions are in harmony.
The same to all non-muslims. my advice to you'll is to live harmony with muslims and not to have violence and quralling with us but to respect our religion and the whole world will be in peaceful state since all religions respect each another and to ignore what has been seriously done through religions in the past since what is past, we cannot bring back or to restore the hurt among non-muslims in the past. What if we, moderate muslims, would say hundred times of apology to you'll for what muslim extremists, it could not restore the damages that have been done in the past. What is past, let it be the past. As all religions would tolerate and to respect each other, there should not be any vandalism, violence and etc.
Singapore is a good example to follow since all religions respect each other and there is no riot, vandalism, violence for many years. Our Government even calls all the residences in Singapore to say to pledge since young in school to cultivate the right environment that all religions have to respect with each other.
This is my last comment in this site. Peace to all religions in the world.
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