Killing of Ambassador Stevens, Film on Muhammad and the
attacks on our Embassy in Benghazi and Cairo messes up the average person. Indeed, there is a pluralistic solution available to the situation, it is much better than the show-off who can do most harm to each other. The solution is low cost, and is sustainable.
If there were a foreign policy or religious crises, Mike Ghouse is called in to offer
pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. Part of the solution was taped in
our Dallas offices by Bud Gillette of CBS News and shared it on the evening
News, and due to President’s speech last night on Hannity, Mike’s offer to
present a long term solution to the crises did not happen, and however, he intends to present some of the
solutions in a paper, most likely to be published in Huffington Post, meanwhile he is available to offer solutions.
It started
on 9/11/2001 when Mike was called in by Radio station AM1150 to take charge and
make sense. For the next eight hours Mike got the community, civic and business
leaders to get on the radio and bring some coherence to the chaotic situation
of the day - at the end of the day, people were driven to donate blood, hold
interfaith prayerss and raise funds for the victims.
Now Mike
will write a full report at Huffington post, meanwhile, he will offer valuable
solutions on Radio and TV networks about the value of freedom of expression,
the film on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), our foreign policy, bullying, war or long
term solutions for the safety and security of America.
Quraan,
Islam and Muslims defend the right of individuals; the acts of the rogues
clearly violate the guidelines laid out by God, Prophet Muhammad and Islam.
Muslims throughout the world have condemned this disgusting behavior of these
men who killed our Ambassador and four of our officers serving us, and have
scaled our embassy in Cairo.
The bully
in us wants to bomb and annihilate the whole country of Libya and Egypt. We
probably can do that, but remember two outcomes from it. Our violence generates
more violence and will make us more vulnerable wherever we go. That is not the
kind of life we want live. We are a free people and must preserve our freedom
through wisdom, or the destruction of others will destroy us and our economy as
we are living it now. The bully among those radicals has similar sentiments
about us. How do we come out of it?
Jesus and Muhammad both have taught us how to handle this.
As a
society we can view these incidents from two different perspectives, and
consider two different solutions. Blaming Islam is the useless thing to do.
Islam did not authorize them do what they have done; they have done it on their
own. Each one of the 312 Million Americans follows the same criminal laws; 99%
of us obey them, where 1% doesn’t. We don’t blame our laws for those that don’t
abide by them; we blame the bad guys and incarcerate them.
The bad
guys went crazy upon the trailer of the film Mohammad. Did Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) authorize what they did? Did Quraan authorize what
they did? Absolutely not, on the contrary Quraan is absolutely clear - if
someone insults you, don’t carry on the conversations with them and adds, if
you insult others, they will insult you.
The
criminals are always good in blaming someone else - in this case Islam. We should
not be gullible enough to buy their argument and start barking at religion
instead of the criminals.
Freedom of
speech and expression is the most sacred value of civilizations, and at no cost
we need to compromise on them. What the dumb men did not realize is that they
are actually promoting the movie by their violence. Had they chosen to follow
the guidance of Quraan, to walk away from it, none of this would have happened.
The evil
things we do are not Christian, Jewish, Islamic or Hindu in nature, they are
our acts, and each one of us who violates the sanctity of life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness of others need to be rounded up, instead of killing and
getting killed and living in fear that is the responsible thing to do.
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Mike Ghouse is committed to building a Cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. He is a professional speaker, thinker and a writer on pluralism, politics, civic affairs, Islam, India,Israel, peace and justice. Mike is a frequent guest on Sean Hannity showon Fox TV, and a commentator on national radio networks, he contributes weekly to the Texas Faith Column at Dallas Morning News and regularly atHuffington post, and several other periodicals across the world. The blogwww.TheGhousediary.com is updated daily. Talk/Text (214) 325-1916
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