Dear friends and scholars,
This has been my earnest desire to work for community engagement, religious harmony, inter-faith dialogue and global peace through intellectual discourse, academic encounter and mutual respect and understanding of one another's viewpoints. However, it gives me immense pain that for quite sometime, a few so-called murtads (apostates) or self-proclaimed free-thinkers have been spreading blasphemous literature in the name of free-speech and critical evaluation of Islam, the Quran and the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) around the world. Unfortunately, these modern Orientals or free-thinkers have a very poor knowledge of Islam and Quran, and are producing a kind of literature on internet in particular, which is based absolutely on false notions, twisted explanations, slanderous account, out of context meanings and no more than sinister fabrications and baseless accusations against a divine religion and its great personalities. Sadly to say, these people are indulged in promotion of their personal agendas, and more than often they provoke and instigate violent reactions from the un-educated masses in the Muslim world. They are not doing any service to humanity, relations between Islam and the west, pollute the tender minds of the next generations and thwart the international efforts of cooperation for world peace, tranquility and dialogue amongst the members of the world community. I have commented on the views of one Sujit Das in my previous coloumn for his extremely provocative and full of distortions book against the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). The current coloumn is a rebuttal to another such self-styled scholar of Quran, Abul Kasem, for his superficial knowledge, poor account and false charges against the Quran and the Prophet (PBUH).
Though this is not my field of expertise, yet I have replied to these so-called intellectuals in my detailed English essay, only with the honest intention of telling the truth, disapproving their misgivings and with a desire to de-radicalize the community of such extreme thoughts, fear and propaganda around us, and to replace the violence by dialogue, hatred by love, intolerance by accommodation, division by unity, and promote religious harmony and mutual respect whether we live. Anyone can translate this English essay into other languages and please feel free to forward it to your other colleagues if you think this will be of interest to them. I don't want to enter into a futile exercise of discussions and counter-discussions, however, am ready to reply any query on the subject or authorities I have quoted therein. My Urdu Coloum is published in the most popular newspaper of our province, KPK (Pakistan) and the current coloumn is published on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 and can be found on http://www.dailyaaj.com.pk/epaper-detail.php?image=NTI1Mzc= Thank you for your comments and support.
with best regards.
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Editor-in-Chief,
Pakistan Journal of Crimnology (PJC).
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