Editor,
Sometimes the deepest wounds are self-inflicted.
This is the case when we look at the Muslims. While we are quick to blame the Zionists, the CIA and others, we must first point the finger at ourselves. Are today’s Muslims still following the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad’s example?
If you look at different places around the world, what you will find is that Muslims have polluted Islam with culture. In parts of Africa, you see female circumcision. In Pakistan there are wife burnings, and in India you see Muslims worshipping saints’ graves.
Do any of these things have to do with Islam?
Until and unless Muslims ask Allah for forgiveness, things will only get worse. Allah’s help will not come until we return to the Quran and the example of the Prophet Muhammad. We cannot fool anyone except ourselves.
As one poem so succinctly puts it, “I am afraid, O wayfarer, that you will not reach the Ka’aba because the path that you are following goes (in the opposite direction) to Turkistan.”
Muhajir Romero
UNM student
