Re: Gangsters, Wannabes, Where’s Islam ?
True that a lot of Muslim youth are “gangsters” and into ghetto culture but western society is not to blame for this (white kids are hardly ever like that), don’t scapegoat western society for everything, of course it is responsible for very many social ills but don’t dig at it unnecessarily because it looks cheap and your opinions lose credibility even at times when you’re stating the facts.
The kids’ parents are to blame, uneducated parents working long hours or staying at home all day not having the vaguest clue about what their children get up to or who they associate with is responsible for this sort of behaviour, it’s not exclusive to Muslims, you have it with the Black and Latino youth in America and Muslim and to a lesser extent Sikh youth in England.
Parents have to take responsibility for their own kids and not be indifferent to them, it’s true that Islam definitely does reform people, I’ve seen with my own eyes guys from family and friends who were dealing drugs, getting into racist violence, stealing, alcoholising, womanising suddenly got reformed after being exposed to Islam, started helping out in the community getting involved in projects giving Muslims a good name, and spending all their time doing good things like sports, education and the Mosque…
…Partisanship, pride and loyalty to an identity and ideology is innate in all humans because we are pack animals, some people satisfy this natural inclination by associating with a gang, others by their patriotism to temporal identities such as nation, tribe and others to an artificial country such as Pakistan, when our religion Islam came it abolished all these racist forms of socially divisive partisanships and whilst allowing people to retain their individuality in terms of nation, culture and language it said partisanship is not based on any of these but rather on faith, whoever chose to could become part of this brotherhood established for the sake of Allah, and for those who are into it it’s really quite a strong warm feeling of pride and loyalty towards our religion and coreligionists.
…But still the primary responsibility lies at the parents, you can’t let your kids do as they please and hope the Mosque will sort them out, they are also very messed up people in the garb of religion with ulterior motives who’ll screw your kids up more than they already are (like we’ve seen a few week ago), not everyone wearing a beard is to be trusted, some people think if we send our kids with Jamaa’ah At-Tableegh that’s it we’ve fulfilled our duty and they’ll come back angels, it doesn’t work like that sometimes the freedoms they enjoy away from home are the only reason they’re going. If you can’t look after your kids don’t have any, let alone a full footy team.