My dear brothers (although I think you have lost the right to be called my brothers). Therefore I will re-address you.
Dear Enemies of Islam and Enemies of the World:
I am writing this letter to you with great disappointment and despondency. In Islam, despondency is considered a sin but I am despondent due to your actions and the nature in which you have behaved toward the world and how you have behaved toward our country. I say our country because Canada is our country. Mine and yours and for all those who live here.
Whatever you may say about your “mother country” and “back home” and “where the heart is” and all those idioms and adages, the fact is that you are now living here, IN CANADA, and by far, this is considered your home.
For sure that is the truth for me. This country, Canada, is my home and you have been accused with the intentions of violating and harming my country and my home.
I speak in general for most minority immigrants. We came to this country with a hope and vision for the future - A vision of a better future, a secure future and a better life. Most of us have had to work hard, doing jobs (jobs that in our countries of origin, servants would do). But we persevered. We persevered because hard work never hurt any one and time and time again we have been shown that with hard work, tenacity and perseverance, one can accomplish anything.
Some of us have had to lie to our families that we were doing really well and that we were living full lives while we were actually struggling and living like paupers, in the beginning.
For others, the struggle still continues. We struggle to survive, the struggle to do things we have never done before, the struggle to integrate without disintegrating, the struggle with children to maintain culture and traditions and to protect them from the negative influences of social vices and most of all the struggle to live without getting caught up in the constant materialism and “living up to the Jones’.”
Thanks to you and your evil intentions, this struggle has just become more difficult.
Canada is a land of immigrants. All Canadians are from immigrant backgrounds.. Everybody has lived through the struggle of survival. The latter generations reaped the benefits of the struggles of the former generations.
While Muslims, Indians, Africans, Europeans, Asians and people of other ethnic backgrounds and religions have had to work harder, be smarter, more efficient and have had to prove themselves over and over again, most survived and new immigrants of similar backgrounds aspired to be like them. New immigrants learned from the mistakes of the older immigrants and the older immigrants provided the support system that the new immigrants needed.
The trust in the Muslim communities was shattered with 9/11 and other acts of terrorism around the world. The media and the entertainment world have not helped by portraying Middle Eastern people as terrorists. Not all Middle Eastern people are Muslims and not all Muslims are terrorists.
We survived by informing people, educating people and most of all by example that showed that Islam was a religion of love and peace and, just as not all sparkling wines are Champagnes, not all Muslims are terrorists, not all African American people are drug pushers, not all Italians are mafia and not all Russians are part of the Russian mob.
You have successfully ruined all efforts that previous and present generations have put into the acceptance of the Muslim communities. Not only have you made us to be wrong but all the trust that the Muslim communities have worked so hard to establish, is like water down the toilet. The constant struggle for equality that we have demanded, fought for and achieved and the fact that we could walk side by side with the “White Canadians” with our heads held high with pride and bask in the glory of the small achievements, has all been ruined by your nasty, intentions of terrorism in this country - the country that opened its arms and embraced your communities, your families and yourselves.
We, the minority immigrants, are the envy of those who do not qualify to come and live here. You, who have that right, have abused it and ruined it for everyone else because your actions have led the whole minority culture to be re-judged and misjudged and of course your actions will now cause the rest of the genuine brothers and sisters who may qualify to come to Canada, to be examined with extra scrutiny.
The most upsetting fact is that while honest people go through gruesome scrutiny and are treated like criminals because of the likes of you and your actions, it is people like you that enter the country posing as honest citizens, with nothing but evil intentions that your religion forbids.
So, it is thanks to you and your kind that disunity exists within the Islamic world. You and only you, guided by some disgruntled and delusional leaders are responsible for anti-Islamic and inhuman behaviour toward the rest of the world.
To be inhuman is to be un-Islamic and you have by far surpassed that.
Your leaders say that you are innocent until proven guilty. I say you are guilty by your intent. In the eyes of the minority population of Canada, you are guilty of shattering our past efforts and our future, of shattering our dream, of destroying our lives.
By that very action, you are guilty.
I wonder if the rest of Canada will really believe that the seventeen of you, (two of whom are already in jail) were working on a gardening project with your three tons of explosive material. I wonder if anyone will believe your fairy tales about how sweet and innocent you are while you pervert God’s words to justify violence.
If you are so intent on killing and destroying, I suggest that you start with your own homes and your families. Destroy your homes and mutilate your families so that you can understand what it is like to have that happen. Destroy your families so that they can be spared the embarrassment and shame of having you as children who do the opposite of what Islam and all other Religions preach.
Fear not Jihadists,(you should look up the true meaning of Jihad) the gates of hell are opened wide and are awaiting your arrival while the rest of us work harder to correct the damage you have caused.
Your lawyers are vying for the public’s sympathy and trying to sway us off-track by making comments about ill treatment and abuse. Even if they were true, why didn’t you think of all the ill treatment and abuse that you were going to impose upon the people and citizens of Canada, some of them even your people?
In the Holy Koran, the Geeta and the Bible in some form or the other, it is said that all actions will reap reactions. Well, you sowed the seeds of injustice, and now it is only fair that you reap the fruit.
I would like to re-affirm my vows to re-pledge my family and myself to love and protect Canada and all Canadians; and if it means disengaging from the likes of you that are bent on doing the opposite, then so be it. I am sure I am not alone.
Sincerely,
A heavy-hearted, grief-stricken and highly disappointed Muslim (I neither have the heart nor the intention of calling myself your brother).
P.S. I am a jihadi too but unlike you, I dedicate my life to preserving life and struggle to increase love, acceptance and tolerance.
The true meaning of Jihad is
struggle. What you were going to do is no struggle. It is in fact against the very principles of Islam.
