‘Anti-Islam film meant to create confusion in Muslim World’
A senior Saudi scholar has warned of the risk of subversion in the
protest action against a blasphemous anti-Muslim video currently
gripping large parts of the Arab world. Writing on his official Facebook
page, Dr. Salman bin Fahd Al-Awdah, a senior member of the
International Union for Muslim Scholars who was formerly imprisoned by
the Saudi regime, said foreign elements could capitalise on the images
of chaos in Muslim countries to diminish the gains of the Arab Spring.
“These acts of abuse against our Prophet (peace be upon him) are
carried out only to spread confusion and strife within Muslim countries,
especially countries of the Arab Spring like Egypt. The perpetrators of
that abuse hope to stir up trouble between the Muslims and Copts and
undo the progress that has been made.”
He cautioned Muslims to behave appropriately and not hand their
enemies a propaganda victory and excuses for further intervention. “They
want to create crises to divide the country and show the rest of the
world how unstable it is. We must counter these effects by all
legitimate means.”
Al-Awdah said it was the duty of Muslims not merely to respond to,
and refute the abuses made against the Prophet (peace be upon him), but
also to persist in teaching non-Muslims about him, his noble character
and teachings. “In this way we can dispel ignorance and neutralize the
efforts of those who hate Islam and use the media to impose a false
image of the Prophet on the world’s people,” he wrote. “We must not wait
for abuses to take place. We must take the initiative and organize our
efforts to convey the beauty of the Prophet’s life to the nations of the
world.”
In what has been interpreted as a blunt warning, American President
Barack Obama on Thursday said he considered the Egypt of Mohammed Morsi
to be neither a US-ally or enemy. Obama indicated that he would judge
the nascent government in Cairo based on its response to the assault on
the American Embassy there, which occurred on Monday.
“Certainly in this situation what we’re going to expect is that they
are responsive to our insistence that our embassy is protected, our
personnel is protected,” Obama added, speaking of ‘big problems’ if the
USA deemed Egypt not to be behaving responsibly.
US officials have confirmed that a special unit of roughly 50 members
of the Marine Corps had been dispatched to Libya to reinforce troops
guarding diplomats there, and two warships were already headed to the
Libyan coast. A senior U.S. official also told CNN that U.S. unmanned
surveillance drones were expected to begin flying over Benghazi and
other locations in eastern Libya in the wake of the unrest.
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