(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - This is according to French Muslim thinker Ian Mansour de Grange, who also warned that Muslims’ attention to the Quran should not be limited to times when it is desecrated.
"Such incidents should make Muslims reflect more on their faith and beliefs and take heed of the Islamic injunctions,” de Grange, who is currently residing in Mauritania, said, adding that if some dare to defile Islamic sanctities today, it is because Muslims, themselves, have neglected the Word of God.
He said Muslims’ reaction to the blasphemous act should be firstly protesting against its perpetrators, but after that they should criticize themselves. "In the face of such attacks on our sanctities, we should fight ignorance, illiteracy, and unawareness in Islamic countries and prepare Muslims for preventing the recurrence of such incidents in the future.”
Describing Islam as a skillful physician that can cure all the illnesses of the current age, the French scholar added that if Muslims can prove this to the world through their Islamic behavior and presentation of Islamic teachings, then the world will not witness any more such acts as Quran burning or desecration of mosques.
Elsewhere in his remarks, de Grange said the US troops in Bagram Air Base burned copies of the Quran on orders from their superiors. "US officials have described the incident as an inadvertent action by a number of soldiers and have apologized for it, too. But the problem is, who is going to heal the hurt sentiments of Muslims?”
He added that the occupying forces who have been in Afghanistan for years will only add to Afghan citizens’ hatred towards the west by such actions.
Ian Mansour de Grange went on to say that defiling sanctities is spreading among Western citizens like a contagious disease, noting that in order to confront these incidents Muslims should more than anything else act upon the teachings of the Quran.
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