Who supports Hassanein Rashid?
In his article in DW Arabia Alaa al-Aswani writes about the case of Hassanein Rashid.
Hassanein Rachid was the subject of international media attention this week. He is a 32-year-old British Muslim citizen who works as a computer programmer and teaches religious lessons at mosques in England. Hassanein was convinced of the ideas of the extremist "Islamic state organization" and used his experience as a computer engineer to set up secret groups on the Internet where he and his colleagues planned terrorist attacks to kill as many English "infidels" as possible. In addition to shooting and dropping bombs, Hassanein called for innovative ways to kill unbelievers such as poisoning fruit and ice cream in restaurants and food shops. He then called for the killing of Prince George, the grandson of the Queen of Britain, a child under the age of five, but Hassanein considered killing him a legitimate duty. The address of the school where Prince George is learning and called for his death early in the morning when he entered school.
Hassanein Rachid was the subject of international media attention this week. He is a 32-year-old British Muslim citizen who works as a computer programmer and teaches religious lessons at mosques in England. Hassanein was convinced of the ideas of the extremist "Islamic state organization" and used his experience as a computer engineer to set up secret groups on the Internet where he and his colleagues planned terrorist attacks to kill as many English "infidels" as possible. In addition to shooting and dropping bombs, Hassanein called for innovative ways to kill unbelievers such as poisoning fruit and ice cream in restaurants and food shops. He then called for the killing of Prince George, the grandson of the Queen of Britain, a child under the age of five, but Hassanein considered killing him a legitimate duty. The address of the school where Prince George is learning and called for his death early in the morning when he entered school.
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Alaa al-Aswani is a tireless advocate for democracy in
Egypt. He speaks to all who seek more democratic
alternatives to authoritarian systems.
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Many commentators have taken revenge and asked why we mourn the victims of Western terrorism and do not mourn the Arab victims killed by the US military. Some even reminded me of the Algerian victims killed by French colonialism. Such anomalous thinking assumes that we either mourn the Western victims or the Arab victims, although we must mourn any innocent person if he is unjustly killed regardless of his religion and gender. The most dangerous thing in this thinking is that it adopts the logic of terrorists. It considers that all Westerners are responsible for crimes committed by some US military soldiers.
The most basic rules of justice are that responsibility is personal. Everyone is responsible only for what he does and not what others do. But those who think of retaliation do not recognize personal responsibility and adopt the logic of collective responsibility against Westerners, just as the extreme right in the West considers Muslims responsible for terrorist crimes because they are Muslims Like them.
The racist terrorists and rightists all espouse the principle of collective responsibility. Here, we discover the paradoxical position of these retaliation. They are blaming the victims of terrorism from the Westerners, because in their opinion they are all responsible for the crimes of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, when these Muslims are persecuted in Western societies, they protest that it is unfair to be treated in this way because they are Muslims because Not every Muslim is a terrorist. That is, they apply collective responsibility to Westerners and refuse to apply them to themselves.
The comments I have read on the subject of Hassanein Rachid have proved that some of us are still mentally absent from the concept of justice, which is regrettable but natural because we grew up in tyrannical societies and no one treats us fairly, so sometimes it is difficult for us to treat others with justice we did not know.
The worst thing that has been revealed by the comments is that many of us evade recognition that Islamic heritage (not Islam itself) actually carries ideas that incite violence and terrorism. After every terrorist operation in which innocent victims fall in our country or in the West, we usually stop with wonderful words about the tolerance of Islam and we enthusiastically assert that the terrorists represent only themselves and Islam is innocent. We simply escape from confronting the truth. Those who kill innocents in the name of Islam are based on their crimes to doctrinal opinions, which no one will discuss and refute. Anyone reading the rule of killing unbelievers in Islamic jurisprudence will discover that we will not eliminate terrorism unless we get rid of this jurisprudence written by human beings like us centuries ago and we were able as Muslims to create a new chapter compatible with civilization and respects human rights regardless of religion and gender.
Democracy is the solution
The most basic rules of justice are that responsibility is personal. Everyone is responsible only for what he does and not what others do. But those who think of retaliation do not recognize personal responsibility and adopt the logic of collective responsibility against Westerners, just as the extreme right in the West considers Muslims responsible for terrorist crimes because they are Muslims Like them.
The racist terrorists and rightists all espouse the principle of collective responsibility. Here, we discover the paradoxical position of these retaliation. They are blaming the victims of terrorism from the Westerners, because in their opinion they are all responsible for the crimes of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the same time, when these Muslims are persecuted in Western societies, they protest that it is unfair to be treated in this way because they are Muslims because Not every Muslim is a terrorist. That is, they apply collective responsibility to Westerners and refuse to apply them to themselves.
The comments I have read on the subject of Hassanein Rachid have proved that some of us are still mentally absent from the concept of justice, which is regrettable but natural because we grew up in tyrannical societies and no one treats us fairly, so sometimes it is difficult for us to treat others with justice we did not know.
The worst thing that has been revealed by the comments is that many of us evade recognition that Islamic heritage (not Islam itself) actually carries ideas that incite violence and terrorism. After every terrorist operation in which innocent victims fall in our country or in the West, we usually stop with wonderful words about the tolerance of Islam and we enthusiastically assert that the terrorists represent only themselves and Islam is innocent. We simply escape from confronting the truth. Those who kill innocents in the name of Islam are based on their crimes to doctrinal opinions, which no one will discuss and refute. Anyone reading the rule of killing unbelievers in Islamic jurisprudence will discover that we will not eliminate terrorism unless we get rid of this jurisprudence written by human beings like us centuries ago and we were able as Muslims to create a new chapter compatible with civilization and respects human rights regardless of religion and gender.
Democracy is the solution
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