THE
PRESS
STATEMENT OF OUR PRESIDENT MR.HEMANTA KUMAR JENA (MWCA PRESIDENT
OUR
PRESIDENT WAS A TEACHER IN UTKAL UNIVERSITY LAW COLLEGE BHUBANESWAR IN INDIA .
AMONG OTHER SUBJECTS HE WAS TEACHING MOHAMEDAN LAW . MOST OF THE SUBJECTS IN
MOHAMEDAN
LAW CAME FROM HOLY KORAN . ACCORDING
TO MR. JENA , PROPHET MOHAMED WAS HIMSELF AN EXAMPLE OF TOLERANCE AND UNITY OF
MANKIND . HE PREACHED ISLAMIC RELIGION TO BRING ABOUT PEACE AND UNITY AMONG THE
PEOPLE LIVING IN ARABIAN DESERT AND WERE FIGHTING BETWEEN THEMSELVES . TO BRING
ABOUT UNITY AND PEACE BETWEEN DIFFERENT NOMADIC TRIBES OF ARABIAN DESERTS HE
PREACHED A NEW RELIGION CALLED ISLAM . ALLAH IS GOD HIMSELF . ACCORDING TO MR. JENA
, CHRISTIANS CALL GOD , HINDUS CALL
ISHWAR AND MUSLIM CALL
ALLAH . BUT GOD , ISHWAR
AND ALLAH IS THE SAME AND ONE ENTITY . PROPHET MUHAMAD WAS A MESSENGER OF GOD. ACCORDING TO ME ( MR.JENA) , PROPHET MUHAMAD
WAS THE FOUNDER OF ISLAM AND WAS HIMSELF A SYMBOL OF PEACE , UNITY AND TOLERENCE . HE WAS AGAINST IDOL WORSHIP . HE PREACHED
THE ISLAM TO BRING ABOUT UNITY AMONG THE THEN NOMADIC TRIBES IN MADINA AND ARABIAN DESERTS WHO WERE FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES
. ISLAM PREACHES UNITY OF MANKIND.ISLAM NEVER PREACHES DIVERSITY OF MANKIND. ACCORDING TO PROPHET , GOD IS GREAT .
THERE IS
A FAMOUS STORY IN THE NAME OF PROPHET MOHAMED . WHILE PROPHET WAS DAILY GOING
IN MORNING WALK IN THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD , A WOMAN WAS THROWING RUBBISH ON HIS
HEAD , HE DID NOT PROTEST , SIMPLY HE CLEANS HIS HEAD AND WALKS AHEAD IN HIS
MORNING WALK . BUT
SUDDENLY IN ONE FINE MORNING PROPHET
FOUND THAT NO BODY THREW RUBBISH IN HIS HEAD . SO, WHILE RETURNING DURING
MORNING WALK HE WENT INSIDE THAT BUILDING AND ENQUIRED ABOUT THAT WOMAN , SOME PEOPLE
TOLD THE PROPHET THAT THE SAME LADY WAS
BEDRIDDEN DUE TO HIGH FEVER . PROPHET WENT TO THE UPSTAIRS AND OFFERRED HIS
BLESSINGS FOR HER CURE AND ON THE NEXT DAY THE LADY WAS CURED FROM FEVER AND
BECAME FINE . SO , SHE OPENLY FELL DOWN BEFORE THE PROPHET MOHAMED AND BEGGED
APOLOGY . PROPHET WAS ALSO SO GREAT THAT HE ACCEPTED THE APOLOGY AND GRANTED
EXCUSE TO THE WOMAN . SO PROPHET HIMSELF WAS A
BEST EXAMPLE OF TOLERANCE . BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE FIGHTING BETWEEN OURSELVES
IN THE NAME OF THAT GREAT RELIGION CALLED ISLAM .
HAD PROPHET HIMSELF BEEN ALIVE TODAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY SORRY THAT
PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING IN THE NAME OF THAT GREAT RELIGION HE PREACHED .
THERE IS NO
SLIGTEST DOUBT ABOUT THE FACT JUST LIKE CHRISTIANITY , JUDAISM , HINDUISM ,
BUDHISM AND JAINISM , ISLAM IS A GREAT RELIGION
. PROPHET MOHAMED PREACHED THIS RELIGION TO BRING ABOUT PEACE AND UNITY AMONG
THE NOMADIC TRIBES OF ARABIAN DESERTS WHO WERE THEN SHARPLY DIVIDED AND WERE FIERCELY
FIGHTING BETWEEN THEMSELVES .
CHARLIE HEBDO JOURNALISTS WERE VERY
SECULAR AND ETHEISTS IN NATURE AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN EXISTANCE OF GOD JUST LIKE
KARL MARX AND COMMUNISTS. SHALL WE KILL COMMUNISTS FOR THIS OPINION . NO IT IS NOT
THE RIGHT WAY .
IN
A DEMOCRACY WE ENJOY COMPLETE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND
EXPRESSION . PROPHET HIMSELF WAS A GODLY , DIVINE AND A GREAT SOUL . PROPHET
WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE ALSO CRITICISING HIM
. LORD JESUS WHILE SUFFERING FROM GREAT
PAIN OUT OF KNELLING WAS FORGIVING HIS OPPONENTS . SO WHY SHALL WE KILL CHARLIE
HEBDO JOURNALISTS FOR THEIR OPINIONS ONLY ?
I (
MR. JENA) REMEMBER THAT I AM A LAWYER AND
ONE COMMUNIST ADVOCATE WHO WAS MY TEACHER IN THE BAR ASSOCIATION HALL CRITICISE
LORD JAGANNATH AS A PIECE OF WOOD , SHOULD I HAVE KILLED HIM . NO IT IS NOT THE
RIGHT WAY . FOR ME LORD JAGANNATH IS GOD BUT FOR
MY FREIND ADVOCATE HE IS A PIECE OF WOOD . EVERY
BODY HAS GOT A RIGHT TO EXPRESS HIS OWN OPINION IN A DEMOCRACY . FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION IS THE
ESSENCE OF DEMOCRACY . DEMOCRACY IS THE HEART AND SOUL OF FRANCE , USA , INDIA , GERMANY
, CANADA , ITALY SOUTH AFRICA , ISRAEL
AND JAPAN ETC.
PROPHET MUHAMAD WAS AGAINST IDOL WOPRSHIP. HE ADVISED HIS
DISCIPLES AND FOLLOWLESERS TO STRICTLY FOLLOW THE RULES AND PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM IN THEIR DAY TO DAY PERSONAL LIFE .
IN THOSE DAYS WHEN PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW ABOUT CONSTITUTION BUT PROPHET WAS SO ADVANCED THAT HE ENACTED THE CONSTITUTION OF MADINA
FOR ALL HIS FOLLOWERS AND ABOVE ALL PEOPLE OF MADINA . IN MY OPINION ALL ISLAMIC STATES SHOULD ADOPT THIS CONSTITUTION
FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE OF THEIR STATES. SO , PROPHET MEHAMAD WANTED ALL MUSLIMS TO OBEY THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS
OF A COUNTRY . IN MY OPINION WE SHOULD PAY RESPECT TO ALL RELIGIONS AND THEIR FOUNDERS.MUSLIMS . MUSLIMS HAVE EVERY RIGHT
TO RESORT TO PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST CARICATURES OF THE PROPHET BY CHARLIE HEBDO BUT THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO STAGE
VIOLENT DEMONSRATIONS AND ATTACK CHURCHES AS THEY DID IN NIGER ETC. . MUSLIMS MUST PAY RESPECT TO THE LAWS AND
CONSTITUTION OF A COUNTRY WHERE THEY RESIDE.