Somehow what they did must be, in some sense, Islamic. And I want to just tell
you unequivocally, without any confusion or any shadow of doubt—I’ve been
trying to understand this
dīn
for well over a decade now and I have no doubts or
no confusion in my mind—there’s nothing Islamic about any of this. There is
nothing even close to Islamic about any of this.
As a matter of fact, I personally give you the advice, I give my children the
advice, and I give my friends the advice: don’t watch those cartoons or those
YouTube videos or those disparaging comments or read those books. I ask you
not to read that stuff, I don’t even want you to look at it because it’s not worth
your time. It’s not worth it. But I will tell you one thing: as offensive as those
cartoons may be it is equally offensive to do something in the Prophet’s name, in
Islam’s name, in Allah’s name (
subḥānahū wa-taʿālā
), that is against the
teachings of Islam. It is equally offensive. When they are spreading filthy
propaganda against Islam by insulting the religion; you’re spreading another
kind of propaganda against Islam by spreading hate and killing and injustice and
calling that the
dīn
of Allah. That is also a crime, and we are equally offended by
that too. That is a crime in itself.
This is the second point that I wanted to bring to your attention. They have
no justification. Some people like to quote the example of Kaʿb ibn Ashraf, who
was a famous poet at the time of the Prophet (
ṣallā Allāh ʿalayhi wa-sallam
), a
Jewish Arab. He had extreme animosity towards the Prophet of Allah (
ṣallā
Allāh ʿalayhi wa-sallam
). As a matter of fact, there are a number of occasions
where he tried to corner Muslims and convince them to do exactly the opposite
of what Allah would want them to do, or what the Messenger (
ṣallā Allāh
ʿalayhi wa-sallam
) would want them to do; and
āyāt
came specifically about his
conversations; on multiple occasions. This guy is so bad that his poison drew the
attention of Allah (
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