Views   The intrigue is harder/more serious than the murder   It is an unbeatable fact that the sacred things or issues, whether they are symbols or something else, have a special meaning. The language of faith is something that invites the people to be always in contact with it and “sacrifice” the most expensive things in order to express the love towards God and his messengers. And now the question rises: what is the goal of intrigues? The faith is not recent, it is much more important than how we formulate it. It is a relation between the most sacred thing – the intimacy between the God and men. Therefore, it would be good if the others, those who lack faith, keep this in mind and respect the faithful. Thus, the faithful would be able to respect them. The faith, according to the Islam is men’s free will, which does not accept any violence or force. Things like this have happened in the past, and unfortunately, they are repeating today (not only such ugly, bad and mean intrigues, but also on the Internet pages where the Gods name is being abused in the most indecent way). How, why and where is all this prepared is another subject, but one thing is for sure – that these types of “organizing” make people who do not deserve to succeed in anything, “succeed” to delude people. One can only wonder how in this economically and culturally burdened time, especially having in mind the secularization in the world, where the religious values are reduced to the believers, one allows such a thing in a place where allegedly, tolerance and democracy dominate? It is very painful that all this started as a “joke”, as something ungrounded. I think I have the right to use here one proverb which says that the stone thrown in a well from a crazy man cannot be taken out by forty wise men. And now, should we talk about the one who threw it or the ones that have to take it out?!? Allow me to sum up. It a very big and unacceptable mistake to present the figure of a God’s representative in this way. The Islam, as a religion, forbids any form of violence, and those who perform it, regardless of the religion they belong to, are like the journalists who had thrown the stone, besides the fact that every party bases its actions upon the “democratic” principle: when one has the freedom to write that, we have the freedom to do this. It is a criminal theory. We must know that the violent reactions serve to the journalists’, editors’ violent goal. It leads to nothing but disfiguring the portrait of the Muslims. In this occasion, I want to thank the representative of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, Mr. Naum who, with his statement, proved that the believers’ feelings, the religious tolerance and the co-existence are more important than anything else. The wise men, the intellectuals, modern politics and especially the theologians’ need to redefine the numerous terms and processes, such as: democracy, secularism and religious fundamentalism. All that has happened to us is hard indeed, the man has been forgotten by everything, nothing is done to help them, on the contrary, everything is done so that they could be put under control, which is unbearable for the human beings. The Muslim-believers must not allow such provocations, and those who provoke must know that everybody’s patience has certain limits. Once again, I want to emphasize that all that has been happening to us is because, in the words of the religious philosopher Aleksandar Solzenicin, “people had forgotten God”. Allah is against injustice and does not like the violent people.  Skopje, 06.02.2006    by Ismail Bardi (the author of the text is a Dean at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Skopje)