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Open Letter to Dr. Al-Hashemi of Al-Mustakillah TV |
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Friday, 04 July 2008 |
Dear Dr. Al-Hashemi,
I am one of those, who, unfortunately monitor your series of debates on Al-Sayyida Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her).
I have drawn your attention previously that your pre-meditated provocative programmes against the Shi'ite faith, in accordance to the strategy laid down by your financiers, are totally biased and designed to invoke hatred against the Shi'ite community worldwide. Why don't your financiers take out a TV licence to show such hatemongering programmes in their own countries? Why have they chosen this country to spread malice against the Shi'ite faith?
May I remind you that your TV is operating in this country where there are strict laws against provoking hatred, which may result in violence against an ethnic minority, whose religious rights are protected under the U.K. laws, under the European laws, and under the UN Charter of Human Rights.
First of all, your management should disqualify you in chairing any programme that discusses the Shi'ite beliefs because of your flagrant bigotry. You have time and again acted as a prosecutor, judge and jury, three in one, without any sense of fairness and justice. A moderator of the programme has to be an impartial person. The structure of your panel of three persons sitting in a row, offending the Shi'ite faith as they like, shows how much confidence you have in your own ability. They are allowed to discuss even irrelevant issues, so long as they are offensive towards the Shias. The only representation to face the diatribe of your panel of fabricators is the telephone calls from some Shia scholars.
The Saddami racist on your panel made mistakes in the verses of the Qur'an and historical facts and hadiths. He displayed confusion about the hadith of 73 sects, until he was corrected by his colleagues. He even denied that the Arabs had anything to do with the killing of Imam Hussain! Who were the people who persecuted the Prophet for 13 years in Makkah? Who were the people who stoned the Prophet in the streets of Taif? Who were the people who ran away from the Battle of Uhud, leaving the Prophet behind? Were they Persians?
Whilst questioning the veracity of the incidence of Fadak, your Saddami penalist alleged that the entire Shi'ite Madhab falls down like a domino, due to the concepts of Imamah, Fadak and burning of the house of al-Sayyida Fatima (peace be upon her). To illustrate his point further, he questioned (and nobody in your panel of learned abusers corrected him), when he said, why did the Prophet forget his other three daughters in the inheritance of Fadak? He was totally ignorant of the fact that al-Sayyida Fatima (peace be upon her) was the only surviving issue of the Prophet at his death. This speaks volumes about his religious awareness. The "Shia" label that he carried, helped you to get nationalist rant expressed on the menace in Iraq, for which, nobody is to be blamed except those who aided Saddam during his atrocities of 35 years.
So as to conceal the heinous crimes of your tyrants and dictators against innocent people and against the dearest members of the Prophet's family, you have embarked on a mission to deny the history, because it does not comply with your political objectives. Your guest from Bahrain should have been sent on a training course to learn some manners before balking at the Shias as "Rafidah". You have lectured your listeners to abide by Islamic behaviour, but exempted your panelist from Bahrain to abide by basic standards of Islamic Akhlaq as he insulted Sayyid Muhammad al-Qazwini and Ayatullah al-Khomeini.
True to the Sunnah of your predecessors, you have been trained to use the book "Faslul Khitab" for spreading Fitnah among Muslims. Let me tell you one thing. Fourteen centuries after "mu'allafatil Qulub" embraced Islam, for whatever reason, we find it impossible to convince you that if, for example, Salman Rushdie was born in a Sunni family (as indeed he was), all the Sunnis cannot be held responsible for his blasphemy against the Prophet and Mothers of the Believers. If you have understood this point, you and and your distorters will never mention "Faslul Khitab" again.
M. Abdullah.
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