Here, Inshallahshaheed tells us about how someone confronted one if its writers, Sameer Khan who gave the interview to the New York Times. Well, this time I’m addressing that guy. Mister, let’s analyze what you have done.
You didn’t give salams to him when you greeted him which is consistent with your pushing him twice to provoke him. You never met him before as he said he’s never seen you before yesterday at his Jumuah. Still you approached him in anger because he did nothing more than tell a journalist what is in Qur’an and sunnah. According to Khan, you said to him these words; “at work, I face all this s*** because of you!” Right there, I have a question for you; what did you tell your harassers at your job who so arrogantly think Allah doesn’t own His own creation?! Did you stand up to them at all? Or did you take it with patience and then turn to Khan to get in his face with no patience?! Did you know that Muhammad did not compromise or hide any revelation from the Meccans to keep away mistreatment and displeasure from other Muslims? Did you know that since now permission is given to fight those who fight us on account of our religion that you don’t have to bear the mistreatment at work and you are allowed to break their noses or even cave their skulls in and be done with them?! I realize that the police will arrest you and the judge will sentence you (if they can catch you). So I’m not asking you to actually do that and go to jail. What I’m referring to is what the Shariah has to say about it. They confront you on account of your religion. So whatever retaliation you can afford will not be held against you on the Day of Questioning. So why not stand up to them and leave Khan alone? The least you can do is tell them to shut up and go sit down and leave you alone, and in turn you leave Khan alone! Not to mention you should not be surprised, you should have seen the writing on the wall even before September 11! No matter who really did it, it was Muslims credited with bringing down the towers and bruising the Pentagon, and it is known that your county is a racist nation. Just months before the attacks, your government under Bush had joined Israel and refused to attend a conference against racism that was held in South Africa! You knew a long time ago that a corrupt and hateful country like yours would be attacked and that the arrogant yankees you want to like you would not accept you! You might be an intelligent person in all other aspects of your life, but you are a plum fool if you think you can have a comfortable life right there in the heart of anti-Islam while really practicing your Islam seriously!! You might as well go and fornicate, get baptized into a church, put a crucifix around your neck, pull a gun and blow out your brains right there in the baptismal pool!… and then tell Allah that you deserve Paradise because you went through difficulty at your job for being a Muslim! Tell Allah why you think he should overlook how you apostatized and killed yourself to escape it! You’re no smarter than than my 1 year old cousin who has to be grabbed and held tightly every time he is outdoors close to a street because he thinks he can run across it carelessly at will! He is smarter than you because at least he will learn better as he grows up! You are an adult and still think you can have jannah with no sacrifices!
Next thing, you’re actually no different than the other weak Muslims that will turn on each other on Judgment Day. Each of you will be upset with the other for discouraging acts that would have made Judgment Day go easier on you. You might think “Khan’s not using hikmah, he’s being rash!” Not at all! Hikmah is seeing that Islam deserves the dominance. Hikmah is seeing that honor and dignity belong to Allah and he only shares it with the believers and the righteous and those who strive in his sabil. (63:8) Lack of hikmah is looking for a way to get to paradise without hardships. It’s like looking to ascend a mountain with out the uphill climb! Where is the hikmah in that? You are trying to discourage a brother from drawing the line between truth and falsehood, and that is why you remind me of Daniel Pipes more than a Muslim. He knows the religion even though he rejects it. He hates how Allah is confrontational with falsehood in his Qur’an he revealed. He hates how Muslim women are kept away from and unlawful to the kaffir men. Those are just why he calls for the compromises and changes to the religion and advocates deportation of all Muslims who don’t agree to make those changes. Changes that actually mean ridda from Islam! I’m not calling you a kaffir, I’m calling you a compromiser until you stop it, which I really hope you do. But as it is now Abdullah El-Faisal said in his lecture I took my name from that whoever revives the teachings of walaa wal baraa will be vilified for it! After I heard that lecture I saw how one Muslim called him insane on his blog. Then I saw another write that he knew people who had met him and they said he was insane! But he’s clearly sane when you listen to him! That’s what they said about Muhammad, too! (Salallahu alaihi wa salam.) They called him a mad man! Both of the ones who said Abdullah El-Faisal was crazy are openly murji (liberal), so I had to discredit what they say with or without hearing El-Faisal. Then, yesterday, you got up in Khan’s face and called him demented two times! In your blind anger you still likened Khan to Muhammad (saws) by calling him demented and blaming him for the consequences of telling the truth! You didn’t even mean to do that and yet you did. How does that feel?
Third, you didn’t punk him because his father came up and stopped you! That’s not running him off! You were just restrained, that’s all! Call a spade a spade! If you have children then you know you won’t run and hide once you see someone confront them. You sound like you’re just frustrated because you thought Khan would be easy to beat and you were stopped from fighting him! Before you try to call him a punk you should answer this question. Are you bigger than him? Did you perceive a real physical challenge when you touched him? If you estimate a chance of you losing the fight and you still confronted him I won’t call you a coward. But by the same token if you feel confident you could have won then you’re only a coward for going to him at all. Especially if you haven’t stood up to your harassers at work. In the English-speaking islands we call people like that a nice name I won’t repeat but it has to do with female reproduction. Many a boy like that has gotten beat up because they search for the easy fight and get a surprise! I’d hate to see that happen to you in front of people who know what is your religion.
Maybe if you just go and ask Khan politely for what evidence he’s coming from then you might learn a lot. He already said he’s not holding a grudge so you should be able to approach him nicely now and learn something. It would be a shame on you for me to learn more from him sitting in the Bahamas than you might learn sitting in the same masjid as he.