Sunday, January 16, 2011

We are Muslims. We are next.

I already feel like a Jew of the Nazi era, living somewhere in the Eastern Europe. Not in Germany, because luckily enough I am not an Arab. But the fact that I am a Muslim living in India, that by a few decades time is going to be no less than a superpower or something close to that and a very close ally of U.S.A (and with that goes the non-alignment policy down the drain) I am shit scared that my race does not have enough time left. We are the next scapegoat for the American ‘democracy’.

Despite the Wikileaks, despite so many people trying their level best to integrate Islam and muslims into the fine mesh of cultures and religions, we are still the odd, bent and tangling piece of wire, all thanks to the American ‘amazing’ propaganda system. They ban books that seem to generate interest of people towards understanding Islam and Muslims and they let out and exaggerate every damn thing that portrays an ugly picture of us.

Tell me, aren’t there criminals in other religions? What religion are the indefinite drug dealers, the mafia, the crazy people who walk into schools and churches and shoot at random people? No one questions their religions, why muslims then?

They might repeat that terror has no religion, but they do agree that terrorism is breeding in the muslim countries and minds. This one time they need a big target, to keep their population engaged for ages to come, so bring on the terror on the people whose population is second largest in the world. I mean, who are we kidding, they are gonna raze all of our civilization and reduce it to rubble and it won’t be long before that date.

Unfortunately enough, there is nothing anybody can do; it is George Orwell’s ‘1984’ coming true. For those who speak against the ‘Big Brother’ (like Iran), America has a strong reason to destroy them. It is like they are digging their own grave. And for those who don’t want to be noticed and while they hope they will be lucky enough to escape the scanning eyes of the big brother, they already have been dominated by them because as a matter of fact, in countries like the Saudi Arabia, the army constitutes of not the natives but they have an American army. Yes, that is right. Their own people are numbered in the army. All their weapons and artillery are that of America’s. So, they can never even put up a fight against them.

Everyone is so desperately trying (in their own way) to get away from the clutches of this big scare, but it seems to be a dead end ahead. You cannot raise your voice, you will be tagged as a terrorist, you cannot keep a low profile and get away with it, because they have their eyes fixed on you. After thinking of different ways and ideas of escaping, you realize that all you can do is sit there and wait. wait for the tanks to arrive, wait for them to come drag you out of your houses. 
So, here I am, sitting in my room, reading an article on ‘Islamophobia’ and how bad it’s condition is (almost every day there is an article on this subject, adding to my anxieties) and I do feel how the Jews must have felt listening to Hitler.

8 comments:

khan latif said...

Good article, well written, well explained...But who cares....Things will remain the same as is mentioned......

ishfaq said...

Very nice article
hope the taboo breaks soon

Zafar Mehdi said...

Nice read.. More power to your pen... You write really well.. :)
Zafar

Furkan Khan said...

@dad: thanx dad!!

@ishu: it won't, as we study the powers of media, we realise how helpless it is, and it dissappoints a lot!

@Zafar: thanx..:)

Unknown said...

u know vot. . um seriously impressed

Furkan Khan said...

@unaizah: you know what! I am seriously impressed! you read it?! :O

Anonymous said...

Really beautifully written... ur words have pathos in them...
being in India we Muslims need to fear even from RSS and VHP and likes... and at larger canvas, no doubt Big Brother is there to cripple us.
But sitting back in fear is not going to do any good to us either. Intelligentsia of our community need to come forward and raise our voice,and makes a difference.

Outlandish said...

Definitively one of the most concise and yet well crafted piece I have read about the matter. Stereotyping is embedded in the human DNA, and I don't mean that metaphorically, we as a species are raised and conditioned into believing certain lemmas and these, over the time, turn into established identities.
Expecting a sudden and a expansive overhaul of the chain of thoughts that bind people is as improbable as cannibalism showing up as an accepted menu item in KFC, it just doesn't happen, because the society has self conditioned itself. Hopefully, powerful words will change the course of events and some day far ahead in the future it will be mentioned as to how the power of the pen helped change a mindset that had globally affected over 1.6 billion people.
Good job, keep writing.