Page 15 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

In other words, on one hand Muslims must deal with war, cru-
elty and violence and on the other hand have to struggle with the
world's unresponsiveness and prejudice against Islam.

Doubtlessly, in this Muslim opposition, extremism has had a great
effect by misinterpreting Islam and showing it as a religion of violence
based on their superstitions. Although Islam is the real source of love,
beauty, compassion, freedom, women's rights, and democracy, the
bigots portray it as a dark, prohibitionist, misogynistic system

opposed to all the beauty. The Western media often show footage in
support of this image; not only does this add fuel to the situation, it
also prevents the slightest help to Muslims groaning under the oppres-
sion. Hostility towards the Islamic world due to the problem of
extremism has reached such a level that the Western world is ignoring
drowning babies, the inoffensive dying from suffocation in trucks, and
the weak who are not even being treated like human beings in refugee
camps.

All this cruelty and violence is pushing millions of innocent
women, children, elderly towards a dangerous and unknown journey,

and is creating millions of refugees. This is one of the reasons why the
world is facing the biggest refugee crisis in the history. Millions of Mus-
lims are leaving their homes, culture, traditions, lives and families, to
go on a trip into the unknown, not knowing what will follow. While
many are martyred in this, those who reach their goal are often faced
with inhumane treatment they do not deserve at all.

Our Lord, in the 75 verse of Surat an-Nisa', has ordered us to pro-
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tect the weak and to make an effort to end cruelty in the world. Regard-
less of sect, origin or religion, it is the command of our Omnibenevo-
lent Lord to all people to feed the stranded, the poor and the prisoner
and to help the poor and the needy. The cause of this cruelty today is

that people have abandoned the religion of God and have been set
against each other through satan's provocation; they have distanced

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