The Evil of Selective Information

The Need for a Counter-Ideology Muslims were involved in a conspiracy to Islamize Britain. But if this trend is explained in terms of people’s exercising their freedom of choice, it will appear to be a normal development. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, certain historical developments took place, chief among them being Zionism, colonialism, communism and American expansionism. Muslims wrongly supposed that these were anti-Islam. Due to this wrong supposition, they started fighting against these forces and, to justify their actions they related them to Islam, declaring that Islam was in danger. But this was not true. Muslims should not have taken these changes as antiIslam. They should have taken them as normal phenomena. It is a wrong supposition on the part of the Muslims that has created the problem. It is not possible to change these writers’ and speakers’ proclivities. However, we can educate people so that they do not become provoked but ignore such events and reports, and refrain from allowing their thinking to be adversely affected. If Muslims are free to engage in their activities, then they must allow others, too, to enjoy the same freedom. If Muslims give the title of conspirators to others, then they shall also have to give others the right to regard them as such. If Muslims have some reservations, they have the