The killings in Libya proclaims loud and clear that some fractions have got the ball rolling to keep on with similar attacks until a war breaks out among the segments and sects of the Muslim World that would lead to a full-fledged massacre. Such an extensive strategy can only be countered with the help of a collective mind, a collective prayer and unflinching solidarity.

Would Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) – who extracted a luminous civilization out of a pitch-dark ignorance – like to be associated with hatred, restlessness and death? Isn’t the exemplary life of the Prophet enough to show the perfect patterns of behavior? Aren’t Muslims the followers of the epitome of universal compassion, forgiveness and love Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), who cautioned his Community with the words, "Beware of the insight of a believer, for (s) he looks with the light of Allah", thus set a target to be achieved by all? Don’t the Muslims believe in the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) who cautioned his Community again by saying, "A believer does not get bitten from the same snake-pit twice," telling that the honor bestowed on all Muslims by the belief in Allah would remove their heedlessness? How is it then the Muslims fall into the same trap, no different than that was set by the blasphemous cartoons?

Unfortunately, Muslims worldwide seem to have lost a very decent advantage by displaying raw reactions. By means of calm and insightful moves, this video could have been made into a trump card to render the Copts answerable to why they supported such an outrageous act of hate. Nowhere in the civilized word can such slanders to a prophet of a world religion be acceptable. As the aspirations and repercussions of the ‘Arab Spring’ still hang in the air, and while there are also manifest movements to ‘Sudanize’ Egypt and knock off the balance across the region, this video could have been utilized to serve for making a policy that would amalgamate the elements constituting Egypt.

How strange! The cartoonist who earlier turned the world upside down with his revolting cartoons could later say very calmly, “I needed money, so I did it,” when the dust had settled. It is hard to believe that those events too were not of ordinary kind. And now some others pop out of the blue and launch salvos at the consecrated people and beliefs of Islam. How strange it is that, the attacker is right in front of us and laughing back at us and the oppressed are compelled to defend themselves before the global public opinion.

Thus, it is high time to quit dreaming and to remember the verse, "whatever misfortune happens to you is because of the things your hands have wrought" (Al-Shura, 30). It is incumbent on all Muslims to get to know the Muslim World profoundly and to strive to know one another at least as much as those who - whenever they deem it fit - instigate the Muslims to go extreme.

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