Beloved Muslims Don’t Let Mischief Mongers Hijack Isq-i-Rasul (صلى الله عليه وسلم)
Protest
We love Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم), we follow his Seerat
In the battle of Pen (after the blasphemous movie), kindly, go to Newsweek’s Face Book site, (before they lock it) and register your outrage at the blasphemy.
“Whoever among you sees an evil action, let him change it with his hand [by taking action]; if he cannot, then with his tongue [by speaking out]; and if he cannot, then with his heart [by hating it and feeling that it is wrong] – and that is the weakest of faith” (Narrated by Muslim, 49)
Please Act Now:
Today, almost whole of Muslim world feels saddened by a cycle of action and reaction of hate speech/movie spread by a handful of mischief mongers. Please use the attached, as possible background material, to get a rational discussion going. As you know, many American have little knowledge of the reverence and respect, the Founding Fathers of US held our Beloved Nabi-i-Karim (صلى الله عليه وسلم ).
Kindly, read the Schenck Case, where, incendiary speech is considered abridged in the Right of Free Speech given in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
The Case
The Schenck case
Holmes, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that it was a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917, (amended with the Sedition Act of 1918), to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I. Holmes argued this abridgment of free speech was permissible because it presented a “clear and present danger” to the government’s recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote:
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. […] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Holmes wrote of falsely shouting fire, because, of course, if there were a fire in a crowded theater, one may rightly indeed shout “Fire!”; one may, depending on the law in operation, even be obliged to. Falsely shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater, i.e. shouting “Fire!” when one believes there to be no fire in order to cause panic, was interpreted not to be protected by the First Amendment.
The First Amendment holding in Schenck was later overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969, which limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot). The test in Brandenburg is the current High Court jurisprudence on the ability of government to proscribe speech after that fact. Despite Schenck being limited, the phrase “shouting fire in a crowded theater” has since come to be known as synonymous with an action that the speaker believes goes beyond the rights guaranteed by free speech, reckless or malicious speech, or an action whose outcomes are blatantly obvious.
US Supreme Court Building
Also please note that the US Supreme Court Building has the name of Nabi-i-Karim (PBUH), and his sculpture (the sculptor being a Christian did not know that depicting Nabi-i-Karim (SAW) is considered idolatrous in Islam). This is what is written:
The United States Supreme Court honors Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, as a source of law and justice alongside Moses, Solomon, and Confucius. He is depicted in the Courtroom Frieze among the great law-givers of mankind.
Muslims understand that depictions of the Prophet are unlawful. However, in this case, this depiction created by a non-Muslim was done with the intention of honoring Islam and making the statement that Islam is an important part of American life and history. From the Supreme Court’s website:
The Prophet of Islam. He is depicted holding the Qur’an. The Qur’an provides the primary source of Islamic Law. Prophet Muhammad’s teachings explain and implement Qur’anic principles. The figure above is a well-intentioned attempt by the sculptor, Adolph Weinman, to honor Muhammad(PBUH) and it bears no resemblance to Muhammad(PBUH). Muslims generally have a strong aversion to sculptured or pictured representations of their Prophet.
At this critical time in America’s relationship with the Muslim world, it is important to recognize this work of art as a symbol of the friendship America’s founding fathers had with Islam, as reflected in the Treaty of Friendship, one of the earliest treaties between the United States and a Muslim country, Morocco:
This is a Treaty of Peace and Friendship established between us and the United States of America, which is confirmed, and which we have ordered to be written in this Book and sealed with our Royal Seal at our Court of Morocco on the twenty fifth day of the blessed Month of Shaban, in the Year One thousand two hundred, trusting in God it will remain permanent…
Let’s protest with our pens according to the tenets our Deen, the Message of Peace!
In the battle of Pen (after the blasphemous movie), kindly, go to Newsweek’s Face Book site, (before they lock it)
and express your feelings about the freedom of expression versus incendiary speech. This is our peaceful way to show our Isq-i-Rasul to those who demonize our Deen. Even one line is enough. It will take 1 minute to write.
