News:
Sky News Arabic quoted: In a step singled out among the rest of the major newspapers in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten Newspaper will not republish the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons. The newspaper had sparked a wave of protests in the Muslim world, in which at least 50 people were killed, when it published cartoons offensive to Islam in 2005. The rest of other Danish newspapers republished the French satirical weekly newspaper’s cartoons within their coverage of the attack, which took place in Paris, Wednesday (07/01/2015), on the Office of the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Comment:
The world was filled with statements denouncing the attack which took place at the headquarters of the French newspaper, and the Western leaders stated that this is a vicious assault against the freedom of expression. French President Francois Hollande had condemned the attack, and said in a speech in front of the headquarters of the newspaper that the attack “touches the heart of the principles of the French Republic, which is the freedom and freedom of expression”.
In January of last year, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls, banned a performance by the comic Dieudonne Mbala called “The Wall” on the grounds that it is anti-Semitic, and the French Supreme Court upheld the decision. However, the same court acquitted the novelist Michelle Houellebecq after he called Islam “the dumbest religion” under the pretext of maintaining the freedom of expression!
And so, freedom of expression for them becomes boundless when it comes to attacking Islam, its rites and its holy places, while the exposure of the Jews, even through innuendo, by what offend them, then this is outside the limits of freedom of expression.
Events that indicate the bright truth of the deep-rooted hatred in their hearts against Islam and its people have recurred successively, and those people are not deterred except by an impediment punishment, and perhaps this is the lesson that the Danish newspaper had learned and decided not to publish the French newspaper’s cartoons.
It came in the Sahih Hadith:
«ثلاث من كن فيه وجد بهن حلاوة الإيمان: – منها – أن يكون الله ورسوله أحب إليه مما سواهما»
“Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness (delight) of faith – among them – The one to whom Allah and His Messenger becomes dearer than anything else.” (Narrated by the two Sheikhs) and his صلى الله عليه وسلم saying:
«لا يؤمن أحدكم حتى أكون أحب إليه من والده وولده والناس أجمعين»
“None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.” (Narrated by Muslim).
The time has come for the world to realize that the Ummah of Islam is alive, will not die, and it sacrifice for its Deen and its Prophet with hearts and lives. It does not know weakness despite all the criminality of the oppressive rulers who are keen on pleasing the capitals of Kufr. And that it is determined to live in dignity and pride of Islam even though the Unbelievers may detest.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Osman Bakhash
Director of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir