Morpheus

Name one terror group that killed in Jesus's name this year. I'll wait. Now do the same for Allah and Muhammad. Boko Haram in Nigeria. Al-Shabaab in Somalia. ISIS from Syria to Mozambique. JNIM across the Sahel. Every one of them says they kill for Allah. And what do we say? "They're not real Muslims." "It's the West's fault." "What about Israel?" Anything but the truth. You couldn't name one for Jesus. You can't stop naming them for Allah. And we still call it Islamophobia. Keep living in denial. The terrorists are counting on it.

Muslims, here's the truth that hurts. Your freedom to speak was given to you by the kafir. Not by any "Sharia nation". Call the British Prime Minister a liar? You go home for dinner. Call the Saudi King a liar? You don't go home. Mock the US President? You get a TV show. Mock Iran's Supreme Leader? You get a cell. Raif Badawi wrote a blog. 10 years. 1,000 lashes. Mashal Khan was accused of blasphemy. Never proven. His fellow students beat him to death. The West isn't perfect. But nobody gets lashed for a blog there. Not in London. Not in Paris. Not in New York. We run to their countries to speak freely. Then go online and call them the enemy. So no. Freedom of speech didn't come from a Sharia nation. Not one. The kafir gave it to you.

We Muslims need to be honest with ourselves. Right now, a lot of the world sees us as a problem. And our attitude isn't helping. We demand respect, but we don't give any. We get offended by everything, from a song to a Christmas tree. We move to other people's countries, then complain they don't live like us. We lose an argument, and we start cursing. Then we cry that the world hates Muslims. The world doesn't hate Islam. It's tired of us.

We Muslims have spent years trying to force non-Muslims to respect Muhammad through fear and intimidation. Criticise him, you get attacked. Insult him, you get killed. Get accused of blasphemy, a mob comes for you. So after all these years of threats and violence, do they respect him more now? Or do they hate him more than ever? You can force people to stay silent. You can't force them to love someone. Fear doesn't create respect. It creates enemies.

Muslims, let's stop lying to ourselves. Most Muslim countries are not tolerant of other religions. In Saudi Arabia, a Christian can't build a single church. In Pakistan, mobs burned more than 20 churches in one day in Jaranwala over a blasphemy rumour. In Iran, Baha'is are barred from university just for what they believe. Meanwhile the UK has nearly 2,000 mosques, and nobody is burning them down. We demand tolerance everywhere we're the minority. Then refuse to give it everywhere we're the majority. That's not faith. That's hypocrisy.