Friday, August 21, 2009

Faith without fear

The statement 'Faith without Fear' is indeed a powerful one. On my way to university recently I noticed the flyers lying around--'Islam Awareness Week'. I've been meaning to look this up over the Net many times, but only got the chance to read it after my teacher posted up this link, and I continue the quest reading up the materials from this website via Google search. It's a powerful enlightenment, fresh awakening as well as challenging my belief.
The material that I got hooked on afterwards is the section "Anti-muslim Writers". I was curious on what these writers have to say about Islam. While I do think that there are several writers listed are devout propagandists of anti-Islam, I see most of them however the true lovers of Islam and its teachings. Some of them, Tawfik Hamid, whose articles in particular 'When I asked my Muslim friend 'Why do you hate Jews?'' touched my heart and let me see how love can transcend the insurmountable unimaginable boundaries around us today. My friend, Muslim or non-Muslim, I encourage you to read up the websites and maybe see the new birth of reformed view of Islam.