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In the name of God, the Beneficent the Merciful
To the Youth in Europe and North America,
The recent events in France and similar ones in
some other Western countries have convinced me to directly talk to you
about them. I am addressing you, [the youth], not because I overlook
your parents, rather it is because the future of your nations and
countries will be in your hands; and also I find that the sense of quest
for truth is more vigorous and attentive in your hearts.
I don’t address your politicians and statesmen
either in this writing because I believe that they have consciously
separated the route of politics from the path of righteousness and
truth.
I would like to talk to you about Islam,
particularly the image that is presented to you as Islam. Many attempts
have been made over the past two decades, almost since the
disintegration of the Soviet Union, to place this great religion in the
seat of a horrifying enemy. The provocation of a feeling of horror and
hatred and its utilization has unfortunately a long record in the
political history of the West.
Here, I don’t want to deal with the different
phobias with which the Western nations have thus far been indoctrinated.
A cursory review of recent critical studies of history would bring home
to you the fact that the Western governments’ insincere and
hypocritical treatment of other nations and cultures has been censured
in new historiographies.
The histories of the United States and Europe
are ashamed of slavery, embarrassed by the colonial period and chagrined
at the oppression of people of color and non-Christians. Your
researchers and historians are deeply ashamed of the bloodsheds wrought
in the name of religion between the Catholics and Protestants or in the
name of nationality and ethnicity during the First and Second World
Wars. This approach is admirable.
By mentioning a fraction of this long list, I
don’t want to reproach history; rather I would like you to ask your
intellectuals as to why the public conscience in the West awakens and
comes to its senses after a delay of several decades or centuries. Why
should the revision of collective conscience apply to the distant past
and not to the current problems? Why is it that attempts are made to
prevent public awareness regarding an important issue such as the
treatment of Islamic culture and thought?
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