Europe’s matrix of indifference

I am angry, and have been for days. This time the reason was not the catastrophic, bleeding injustice of what is happening day after day to our Palestinian brothers and sisters in the Middle East. They will understandably sigh at our domestic plight, given their immense pain, suffering and the world’s criminal indifference to their survival. But this is not to undermine the global seriousness of the state of the Ummah; rather, it is a recognition that the very same malice that is destroying Palestine and its people is being allowed to fester unchecked on the streets of Europe. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, warned explicitly against reckless anger, famously stating in a narration found in Sahih al-Bukhari that, […]