By Aboo Aamir, Is'haaq b. Abdurraheem
In a secularly skewed article, a US-based professor of mass communication, Farooq Kperogi, threw all caution to the wind when he described the Muslims who have the inalienable right to their religious belief to wish or not to wish their Christian neighbours a Merry Christmas with the most brutish and nasty adjectives in a journalist's thesaurus.
He wrote, as an excerpt:
'That’s now increasingly becoming a challenge, and no moments dramatize this fact than during the momentous religious festivities of the two faiths. During Christmas celebrations, for example, a band of idle, extremist, self-appointed, not to mention ignorant, Salafist moral police comb social media platforms in search of Muslims who wish Christians a merry Christmas.'
This is however not surprising from the ilk of Professor Kperogi. He grew up learning an Islam far from the correct ethos found in the Qur'aan, the Sunnah and the way of the early Muslims.
As an egghead he wants us to believe he is, what behoves him is to conduct a little search from the primary sources of the Islamic customs and see how Islam has taught the Muslims how to relate with the non-Muslims.
But as apologetic and biased he is, he made a foul of his academic training, a professor of communications for that matter, and resorted to an 'academic street fight' typical of the sensational yellow journalism of old.
A journalist is trained to make a research before he writes about a topical phenomenon like the one he bullishly delved into.
In his article, he paints a picture of a horrible Islamic resurgence which he dubbed 'extreme salafism.'
That Muslims get right their religion is a usual pain to people like Professor Farooq. To them, Islam of drumming and dancing is enough. Any attempt by intellectual Muslims to purge Islam of heresies attached to it is seen by people like Professor Farooq as extremism.
Perhaps he should tell us the kind of moderate Islam he wants for the Ummah at large, professor of idealism.
He said his wife is a Christian as well as his in-laws. What about his kids? Are still they Muslims or had he sold them in the market of 'moderationism'?
The problem with people like Professor Farooq is that they are already wounded in faith, their Islam is watered down, so they want everyone to be like them.
If you are wounded, professor, it is not so late to retrace your steps. Go back to a purposeful Islamic learning and be a better Muslim.
However if you continue to transfer your disillusionmnent and depression in your lost faith to the Muslim populace, be sure that you have many battles to run with Islam and its vanguards, if you like call them moral police or Allaah's monitors.
Lest you mischievously change the narrative, the battles being referred to above are intellectual, which I can asuure you this is just a prologue.
Islam now has a lot of moral police worldwide.
Walhamdulillah rabbil aalameen.
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