Marwa Sherbini, an Egyptian woman, has been brutally murdered in a German court room by the man who called her a terrorist. She used to wear hijab which prompted the accused to call her a terrorist. The widespread abhorrence for Islam in the west is a matter of great concern for many in the Islamic community but hardly anybody tries to examine the root cause for this hatred. The terrorist attacks in New York, London and Madrid has invigorated a section of Muslims to call for a Holy war against the west and to go back to the middle ages to find spiritual backings for their cause. This wrong approach has prompted the conservative circles to eulogize niqab and hijab for the Muslim women as a sign of Islamic renaissance. But this so called Muslim dress code in the west is not a resolve to fix the weaknesses in the Islamic world rather it's a sign of desperation and frustration. The widespread call for jihad against the "infidels" is nothing but hypocrisy to conceal their failure to grasp the need for pragmatic solutions. Marwa Sherbini is an innocent victim of the false and vicious propaganda ignoring the realities on the ground.
The degeneration of a faith starts when its spiritual teachings are not adjusted in a proper manner to walk with the changing times.
Akbar Hussain
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