Whether by the Fire of Freedom or by the Fire of Zeal
It seems that today the right to freedom of expression has turned into a duty to defile and desecrate Muhammad’s name. It would be impossible to vandalize freedom more viciously than this.
Muslims detect a whiff of vilification and conspiracy, and see it as an act of hostility. They believe that a collusion and conjunction between secularism and fundamentalism lies latent therein.
May God and reason protect us when secular fundamentalism fans the flames of religious fundamentalism (which occasionally styles itself ‘religious zeal’) and stirs up disorder and rioting. [ [*] As I was writing this piece, there was painful news that embassies had been set alight in Damascus, Beirut and Tehran. I realized then that these extremists had succeeded in provoking those extremists. We must express our condolences to the world of Islam for this success, which is the failure of moderation and tolerance. Muhammad, peace be upon him, who was the teacher of freedom and zeal has now become a victim of the cruelty of freedom-spouters and zeal-peddlers who throw dirt in the face of liberty and slash the garment of religiosity.
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