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The updating of the Italian religious identity in an Islamic sense is a concrete phenomenon that cannot fail to bring joy to all Muslims, especially those who are “reverted” like me. I perfectly remember the path of my “calling” under the guidance of Allāh swt, and I will never be grateful enough for having benefited from His divine grace in rediscovering my true nature as a servant of the Most High according to His true and only religion.
The commitment to Da’wa is also a way to reciprocate His generosity: since I benefited from it, I should strive myself to ensure that other Italians can enjoy the privilege of realizing that they have been Muslims since birth, right?
Therefore, I feel a strong sense of gratitude and admiration for the brothers and sisters who Allāh swt employed and continues to employ as instruments for the propagation of Islām in Italy and in the European/Western context in general.
However, I am very sorry to remark the fact that among them, unfortunately, there are also young professional “influencers” animated by an ideological zeal that have nothing to do with Islām.
Rather, they mix Islām and politics in a misleading way cloaked in good intentions, which seems to hide nothing good behind it.
In the cauldron of their slogans and clichés on social media and elsewhere, I was particularly struck by the exploitation of the figure of Malcom X as a champion of the “resistance against oppression and tyranny”.
Malcolm Little by birth, the story of the African-American leader is marked by dynamics that concern specifically the context in which he was born, raised, and lived. Racial segregation remained a terrible reality in the United States even after the abolition of slavery, and the young Malcom could not help but bear the wounds of it.
As a result, Malcom X came to call for the separation on ethnic grounds between blacks and whites, together with the open legitimization of the use of violence in the fight against injustice. However, such stances can find an actual meaning and a justification only if considered and understood in the scenario where brother Malcom found himself acting.
Not accidentally, the embrace of Islām then served to introduce into his way of being and thinking the wisdom (hikmah) and mercy (rahmah) necessary to at least partially extinguish the hatred and resentment that he had long harbored within himself.
At this point, the question arises spontaneously: what does Malcom X have to do with Italy?
Well, the “influencers” above keep tampering with his figure in a sneaky and manipulative way, seemingly with the intention to stir in Italy an artificial, unprecedented, and dangerous confrontation between skin colors of different shades. Astaghfirullāh!
The involvement of Islām in this kind of propaganda propaganda – although the Holy Qur’ān and the Sunnah, as well as the Sīrah abound with evidence that unequivocally prohibit similar confrontations – makes their work a deliberate attempt to generate fitnah, as if they were seeking Islamophobia instead of preventing it, fanning the flames of tensions that Muslims are called to extinguish and not to fuel.
The range of action of this fitnah is not limited to Muslims and non-Muslims, but affects the Ummah itself undermining its unity, since “native” Muslims in Italy could start getting tired of such pointless street agitators, Muslim brothers in name and nothing more.
The face appearing on the screens corresponds to pseudo-intellectual university students, apparently harmless and committed to good causes, among all the Palestinian one, with the genocide in the Gaza Strip blatantly exploited as a springboard for their own image. Luckily there is not just one “Ibraa”, Alhamdulillāh.
In Italy or in the rest of Europe, we do not need their lessons on Malcolm X (and not even on Muhammad Ali, whose image is being misused for the same wicked purposes).
Rather, the real lesson that brother Malcolm left us concerns the rejection of militant racial separatism, and the need to clearky distinguish between political activism and Islamic religious practice. He had indeed undertaken the “straight path”, may Allāh swt reward him and protect us from the “mystifications” of his legacy.
Jihād senza Spada 