The reason why Maldives is striving beyond impossibilities to keep Maldives a 100% Muslim country, I do not know! In several of my earlier writings, I have written and elaborated that in order to remain peace and harmony in the country it is better to let faith be of option to the citizens. The problem that we see today is, the Maldives is a country with no options but be a Muslim. This has created Muslims of different types. Dots, SS, Salafs, Shaafiees, Moderates, Extremists, Jihadis, Fundees, etc etc! If one counts, the names would be countless, and each of these groups has their own way of Islam. If questions asked they would show evidences from Quran and Hadeeth.
In my point of view, the reason behind is two. One: Lack of education, two: lack of freedom.
Lacks of education in the sense, most of these groups are lead by uneducated people. There could be a youngster who just learned the basics of Islam from an Indian extremist school, comes to Male’, gathers a group of youngsters, speaks with utmost assurance and affectively, and spreads his version of Islam. Then, comes a salaf from Saudi, spreads his version of Islam. And the uneducated kids listening to these two groups create a dot who adopts the extreme of the extreme views from the two extremes! So on and so forth!
Most of the scholars at the Maldives, particularly those who speak on Radio Atoll have extreme views on everything! Given freedom of speech, all they are expressing is hatred and anger. Their message is all others are enemies. The Prophets teaching on respecting non-Muslims they somehow forget. For them, a Christian is an enemy, a Buddhist is an enemy, and if a person belongs to a religion other than Islam is an enemy. The fear inciting talks, the anger, the hatred – kill kill kill, slay slay slay, behead behead – these words drive crazy the people who listen to these so called scholars. Although, the Prophet fought several of the wars, he did prove the importance of life, and did not kill but a single man. Yet, what these scholars only see is the Ayats and Hadeeth that calls for killing!
And the other group, all they do is talk about the little things that does not even ‘matter’. Where will you keep your hands during prayer? Thank God there is no number of times from 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 50, 60, 100, 1000; the number of times the finger should be moved during Ah’thahiyaath! If there was, it would have been the debate of the century maybe! Seriously, in a society where people don’t even know the pillars of Islam why are these small things so important?
Lack of education! Lack of thinking and logic! What these scholars care about is spreading their version of Islam, and trying to disprove others. Their message is to forget about the world and only think about what is to come. And when a people who does not even know the pillars of Islam hear these scholars extreme versions of Islam, more extremists are created, without knowing the fundamentals.
And the lack of freedom, because Islam is the only way of life that could be practiced at the Maldives, it creates the unimaginable. There exists people who want do all sorts of things. So they go for two options. They either discredit Islam, start following their own way of life, or they try to find evidence within Islam to do the extreme acts they do. And while doing this, their belief strengthens, and they sincerely start to believe that their actions are in accordance with the Islamic tenets. And this also creates the other extreme! Thos who have a hate towards Islam…
At the end, feelings keep on boiling within the people, waiting for a chance to pour it out. Like politics, with freedom of speech, even at this very moment, people keep on shouting all their feeling on radios, and any media they get access to, even if what they speak does not make any sense!
Likewise, people like Nazim, could not hold their beliefs and questions withheld. Had Maldives provided a better environment, had Maldives provided better education, had Maldives not blacklisted those who ask question about God, the situation would have been better. Nazim did not have to pour his questions and thoughts the way he did. And had the Muslims been well educated, the reaction that they had upon Nazim announcing his belief would have been more Islamic and more peaceful.
If there is a way to force Islam, Allah would have not mentioned that there is no obligation in Islam. It is freewill. It is freedom to believe what a person wants to believe. And it is against Islamic teachings to enforce Islam. The Quran and the Sunnah, fully describes how to maintain Islam, how to call for Islam and how to spread Islam. But writing in a constitution that the people should be Muslims is a misconception. The way things are to be done in Islam is defined. Any addition to it is a bid’ah! And forcing an Islamic state is a bid’ah. It is an addition; it is a human way, not a religious way.
And when this is told, some ask, ‘for example, a Muslim enters a church, disrespect the church, say whatever he wishes to the people therein. Would they not get frustrated? Would they not get angry and would they not do a little beating as well?’ Well, they might! They might even kill the person. But that is what differentiates Muslims; that is why Islam is beautiful. Islam teaches tolerance, calmness and peace. Not hate and anger!
-thadu
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We love love love the above comment by Islamist. Its just brilliant, and exactly the way these fundies operate. Analytical intellectual thought goes wayyyy above their heads, they become instantly suspicious and then its calls for violence, beheadings kill kill kill. Brilliant Islamist brilliant!
ey beethaayaa thee kon dheenehge kujehtha.