Why are these guys setting themselves on fire?
What is going on in these countries?
Muslims everywhere want to know what to think about all of this. Youth are concerned about their own futures and ask, "What is next?"
Guide US TV Got Email Requesting them to open a TV station in Frence for Muslims living throughout Northern Africa and other places.
Here it is:
| Dear Guide Us TV: I am writing you about the state of Muslims in French speaking countries across north and west Africa and Europe. Drugs, violence, prostitution, poverty, unemployment, torn families and much, much more. It's a social disaster and I pray that God helps them. Many youth are Muslims by name and have no idea about Islam. Many parents are struggling in life and cannot even teach their children religious values and morals, and many parents don't know them themselves. Even practicing parents often have children who know nothing about God or religion. There is such a lack of knowledge about Islam the situation is heading towards a major crisis of faith. Meanwhile, the difficult socio-economic situation these communities are in and their lack of knowledge has made them easy prey to all sorts of people. For example, in Algeria Fundamentalist Christian missionaries from Europe and Arab countries like Lebanon are strongly targeting disenfranchised communities and thousands of them have not only converted to Christianity but are now haters of anything Islamic. In Belgium, poor Moroccan immigrants are often drug dealers, street criminals and prostitutes. In France, Islam has been attacked so viscously that many 'muslims' live a faithless life. The list goes on and on from Mali to Morocco to Senegal and so on, it is truly a crisis of faith and lack of knowledge is at the core of it. At the same time, many feel they have nowhere to turn to and many are just clueless. This is why I am emailing you, the media can play such an important role in helping the HUGE French speaking Muslim population. In fact, did you know that the vast majority of Muslims in Africa are French speaking? Did you know that about half of Arab Muslims are French speakers and it is often their first language? Did you know that the number of French speaking Muslims by far exceed the number of French speaking Christians? Do they not deserve more help, attention, and educational support by Muslim scholars and teachers in the media? When answering that question think of the millions of french speaking muslims struggling and whose iman is being tested on a daily basis. Mothers, fathers, daughters, sons across the whole of west and north Africa and in Europe with few places to turn to. Do they not deserve more educational and moral guidance and support? They need a television channel in French that teaches them about Islam, a full fledged channel that is easily accessible across all these regions and that they can relate to, that is both educational and inspirational. A non political channel that they can rely on for that extra guidance and support. For example that channel can be supported by an online bookstore, a youtube channel...etc. You are in the media, you know about this, please do everything you can to make it happen as soon as possible, if you can't please speak to those who can. Please help them, they really need it. Jazak Allah khair. |
[reply from Guide US TV]
Bismillah Rahman Raheem - salam alaykum,
Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention. We totally agree with you, there is definitely a need for a true Islamic TV station in French and many other languages as well. We totally support your request and we are doing what we can right now - by asking Islam Newsroom to print this story on their website.
We are making dua for all of you and asking everyone to join us in our prayers for a better life for the Muslims there. May Allah grant you patience, protection and success always, ameen.
As a brand new station, relying totally on the donations from American Muslims, we must tell you it has taken us many years just to save enough money to get started, and now we are on a campaign to raise awareness about the satellite station, and the need for monthly financial suppport. This is very difficult, even here in America. Muslims just do not have the idea to put their money where their mouth is (so-to-speak). And until we Muslims start supporting our own media, our cause is going to continue to be unheard and untold - and that is the cold, hard facts.
We are going to produce a story about the need for more TV channels in other languages and other locations around the world, inshallah. The question is, what are you (as the one reading this) willing to do from this point forward? What about American Muslims? Where is the support for true Islam?
We are waiting.....
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