بريطانيا: المسلمون يؤكدون ضرورة تعريف الآخرين بالإسلام

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رصَدت شبكة "إن بي آر" الأمريكية مؤخرًا شعور المجتمع الإسلامي البريطاني بالحاجة الماسة للتعبير عن أنفسهم، وبيان حقيقة الإسلام والمسلمين الذين يعيشون بالمجتمعات ذات الغالبية غير المسلمة، وتأكيد وطنيتهم، وتَبنِّيهم للسلام والتعايش المشترك، ومواجهة المفاهيم المغلوطة والتشويه الإعلامي الذي يشكِّل الموقف منهم بطريقة سلبية.

وقد أكدت النماذج التي استشهدت بها الشبكة أهمية تمسُّكهم بدينهم، واحترام الآخرين لدينهم، والتخلي عن تعميم الإساءة، وتجنُّب الخلط بين التمسك بالتعاليم الدينية ودعاوى التطرف، وخاصةً مع وجود 2.7 مليون مسلم يعيشون في "بريطانيا"؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Britain's Muslims Still Feel The Need To Explain Themselves

If you are Muslim in Britain, you can't get away from them. If you're Salman Farsi, you're often at the center of it.

"It feels like we're constantly having to explain ourselves," says Farsi, the spokesman for the East London Mosque.

It's a huge complex in a booming and diverse neighborhood, serving 7,000 worshippers at Friday prayers; some 1,000 kids pass through its halls each week.

Farsi is the mosque's social media guru, posting sermons on YouTube and tweeting responses to the day's news.

The 29-year-old was born and raised nearby in a Bangladeshi family.

"Most Muslims — and there's 2.7 million Muslims living here in Britain — most Muslims feel they're very much part of the community, part of society, part of Britain, and so when our sentiments and feelings are not those that are perceived by the rest of society, it's quite challenging," he says.

And the recent climate of Islamophobia, and misconceptions, he says, has made his job difficult. For example, Farsi has to deal with the hate mail the mosque receives.

"It's having to fend off the far right, who see the actions of extremists and they blame the whole community," he says. "And we pay the price for it."

And the risk is that this need to constantly "explain themselves" will lead to disillusionment, or worse, among young Muslims, Farsi says.