I cannot help but wonder what if Abdullah’s missing had a different end. What if Abdullah happened to have sold his car so he could take off and join ISIS? I am sure the propaganda machines masquerading as “news” media would have loved that. Abdullah’s name would have been plastered all over the news. His being a Saudi student would have been exploited to its fullest extent. After all, Saudi Arabia, a country with different tribes, customs, and even perspectives on Islam is constantly vilified with gross generalizations against its people. Even Muslims want to dissociate from it so they can mitigate the negative stigma of being Muslim, even if for a little bit. “When you are niggarized you are unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, hated for who you are, you become so scared that you defer to the powers that be and you are willing to consent to your own domination.” These words of Cornel West ring true for Muslims at large and Saudis in specific. We are a “people who have been so terrorized and traumatized and stigmatized that we have been taught to be scared, intimidated, always afraid, distrustful of one another, and disrespectful of one another.” For us Muslims we really have to come to terms with the reality that we have been niggarized. Despite supposedly being equal citizens in the West, we are not treated as such. Everyone speaks of humans rights as universal. But the problem is that not everyone shares the same definition of “human”. The recently sparked discussion on Islamophobia and bigotry is ironically one that highlights this. Everyone gets to talk about Islam and what Muslims believe and want, except for Muslims. We are the bystanders in this conversation about us. Even when a Muslim is brought on to talk about us, as in the case of professor Reza Aslan, he is not representative of mainstream Muslims by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, most mainstream Muslims would reject what he says about Islam and what they believe according to him. The presence of Reza Aslan as the “Muslim Voice” actually serves to further stifle the mainstream Muslim Voice, because we are just niggas. Going through Abdullah’s Twitter account is emotionally taxing. His profile says that he was “an ambitious guy who’s looking to make difference in the future.” His last tweet was a prayer that can really summarize what every mainstream Muslim wants and thinks about, regardless of how they define their Islam. You can read the rest of this at mohamedghilan/2014/10/18/abdullah-alkadi-a-freed-soul/
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