Freedom of speech to what extent ?!

Rachid FAHMI
4 min readOct 23, 2020

It’s seldom I wrote about such topics but with this freedom of speech controversy pops-up I thought it’s the right moment to share my point of view.

There’s two kind of people who make fun of Islam there are people no matter what they know about Islam they will still hate it you can never impress them and you can’t never convinced them these are similar to people who argues the prophet(PBUH) with following arguments 17:90–93 {They challenge ˹the Prophet˺, “We will never believe in you until you cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us, or until you have a garden of palm trees and vineyards, and cause rivers to flow abundantly in it, or cause the sky to fall upon us in pieces, as you have claimed, or bring Allah and the angels before us, face to face, or until you have a house of gold, or you ascend into heaven — and even then we will not believe in your ascension until you bring down to us a book that we can read.” Say, “Glory be to my Lord! Am I not only a human messenger?”}. The second kind of people who make fun of Islam they know nothing and have no idea about Islam and all what they know the crazy behavior of Muslims so they assume that Islam made them crazy so they actually not making fun of Islam they making fun of Muslims because they’re doing a ridiculous thing. This is the first second thing we should know that the enemies of Islam today are different of enemies of Islam in the time of Mohamad (PBUH). At the time of the prophet the enemies of Islam were there because the prophet was inviting people to be honest, he was challenging the corruption, he stood for justice, he was telling the people that the slave and slave’s master are equal they have to stand in one line, and he was destroying the system of Quraysh and replacing it with justice of Islam he was talking about the truth in general. So, does Islam have enemies today? The answer is yes but for different raisons political, economic, and social and business ones. Hence, the Islam don’t have enemies because we are champions of justice and we stand tall for the oppressed for sure we don’t do that. Therefore, we should not compare the enemies of Islam of 1400 years ago and now. The question that comes to our mind was how shall we respond? The prophet (PBUH) Allah says about him 94:4 {we raised your mention} and in chapter 33:56 {Indeed, Allah showers His blessings upon the Prophet, and His angels pray for him. O believers! Invoke Allah’s blessings upon him, and salute him with worthy greetings of peace.} So, Allah and his angles raises the status of the prophet the same every single Muslim do in everyday prayer. Then when one idiot human being and one dog barks it takes nothing away from dignity of the prophet (PBUH) it is as stupid as thinking that somebody spitting at the sun, try to spit at sun it’ll come on your face. And we have to learn to adopt the attitude of Mohammed (PBUH) when they used to call him Muzammam (Disgraceful) instead of his true name Muhammed (Praiseworthy) he said they talking about someone else he did not say how dare you call me with that. Indeed, we have to ignore them and when we answer them, they get louder and more dogs show up these people need attention that newspaper had a few hundred distribution after Muslims protested and did this idiotic thing that the prophet (PBUH) would never allow killing these people. Have they honored the prophet (PBUH)? Of course No They spread the problem way more and helped in advertising and smear more than anybody could have done the best thing to do is ignore it this none sense will continue and much worse than this has already been done and it’s not new it’s happening since the time of the prophet (PBUH) so we need to understand that this does not affect anything.

Then the next question is am I offended? Absolutely I am offended, are Muslims supposed to be offended? Absolutely. I have a suggestion that Muslim organizations, governments and institutions bring a lawsuits take these people to court for defamation if Jewish community can ban the conversation about holocaust they say you freedom of speech until you talk about the Holocaust in America you have the freedom of expression until you burn the American’s flag every society has some things that are offensive to them, Muslims are no different this’s offensive to us but am arguing we have to learn to speak their language we need to become more sophisticated in our attack protesting do nothing except help them these people worship money and every time we react against their acts we fulfilled their purpose to get more traffic so they will keep play with us every time, we’re falling into their game we have to understand the game and play smarter than them and mature our response.

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Rachid FAHMI

Information security student #Muslim Interested in comparing religions and philosophic topics.