Why did Sir George Bernard Shaw believe that Prophet Muhammad could solve all the worlds problems today?

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Islam akan muncul

sebagai agama rasmi Europa 2050

- George Bernard Shaw.

“The Medieval Ecclesiastics, either through ignorance or bigotry, painted Mohammedanism (Islam) in the darkest colours. In fact, they were trained both to hate the man (Muhammad) and his religion. To them he was anti-Christ… I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing face of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him, the wonderful man, and in my opinion, far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the saviour of humanity. I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness”.

“I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today…”

Analysis

America was just emerging as a champion of the modern world when Bernard Shaw made his famous prediction quoted above. Western civilization was then restricted to Europe and Shaw had taken any emerging civilization from America as an extension of that of Europe. He had thought that whatever would be acceptable to Europe ought to be automatically acceptable to the emerging power of the New World, the former being an offshoot of the latter. He was right.

Although, Islam had reached America long before Christopher Columbus arrived in what was then perceived as a New World, very little was known about the Muslims in that country until 1886 when one Moorish immigrant, Noble Drew Ali, of North Carolina started to propagate Islamic faith to the black masses in the New World. However, that Noble D. Ali’s jihad became prominent with the growth of media influence in the United States did not necessarily make him the first American Muslim preacher

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"ISLAM," WROTE George Bernard Shaw, "is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers." The atrocities committed in New York, Washington and Pittsburg on September 11 in the name of Islam corroborate what GBS wrote. As I watched those scenes of wanton devastation and cold blooded mass murder on TV, I kept asking myself: do the perpetrators of this heinous crime worship the same Allah, read the same Quran and follow the same Prophet that I do? The answer to these questions is NO. How Islam — intrinsically a religion of peace and brotherhood — can be responsible for such an apocalyptic act?

Islam, with over one billion followers in 55 Muslim countries, extends from Gambia to Indonesia. Muslims also live in Europe and North America and account for 1 to 5 per cent of the total population of these regions. France has the biggest Muslim population (six million) in Western Europe. The total Muslim population of the U.S. was three million in 2000, of which some 10,000 Muslims serve in the U.S. armed forces. Although there are no Muslim Senators or Congressmen in the U.S. at present, the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the U.K. have each two Muslim members. There is hardly any profession in Western Europe and North America in which Muslims have not made their mark. Most of them came to the West as economic migrants or in pursuit of higher education. Today the tall and slender minarets of mosques and Islamic cultural centres dot the skylines of major cities in Europe and North America. Among the 6,000 dead or missing in the WTC bombings, the number of Muslims has been estimated at between 500 and 1,500.

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