You Tube tips and Islam

You Tube is a 21 century phenomenon that every group of people have taken part in. There are thousands of videos done by Muslim brother and Sisters. Although most are not of the highest quality, the fact that they are put out there for the world to see is good, right?

Unfortunately, You tube is an unmonitored ground of racism and islamaphobic hate speech. It is disgusting to read the comments that people make about Islam, Muslims, and the Quran al-kareem. What is even worse is to read 'Muslims' return the negative hate speech instead of just ignoring it or by using compassion and logic to combat the hate.

Perusing the videos, I found an attack on the seal of Prophets, saaws, that purported that he was a child molestor. The person said that he attacked the prophet because someone had insulted Jesus, ss. Of course, no real Muslim would ever say anything against the Messiah Isa, ss.

Muslims can either enter into intelligent, logical and level-headed debate when explaining the what they know and how they come to their conclusions or just not enter into any debate and say Peace and pray for the person to find a way to honest truth.
Imam Al-Ghazali recommends that if you enter a debate because of your want to win it, than that is a debate based off your ego. Nafs=Bad. If you enter into a debate because both sides wish to know the truth regardless of where the truth comes from than you enter the debate without ego. This is good.

One must know themselves and their opponents in order to even commit to an intellectual dialog. You must determine if the person is one of 3 personality types.
a: the person is someone who knows they do not know
b: the person is someone who does not know that they do not know
c: the person is someone who thinks they know but do not know and will never listen to reason or logic.

For person A enter the dialog with calmness, positivity, and rationality. This person you can use colorful language with to paint the picture of your point.

For person B you must first tell them what you know they do not know. Once you set the basis for your dialog and have deconstructed their comments and possible irrational debate you can begin to use more dialectic tactics.

For person C you should just say Salaam, walk away, and then pray for them.

When entering into the realm of You tube commenting, the possibility of turning people completely off to Allah is high. People can be extremely cynical and only see hatred. Even mundane comments such as, "anyone who has an ear can sound like that."- in regards to a beautiful quranic recitation. Shows that people are out there to stir up trouble all in hopes of offending Muslims enough to cause hatred.

Now more than ever, Muslims around the world need to show restraint against their nafs. We need to take the route of peace, non-violence, and wisdom.