عَنْ جَابِر بْن عَبْدِ اللَّهِ – رضى الله عنهما – قَالَ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ – صلى الله عليه وسلم -: الْحَرْبُ خُدْعَةٌ

Jābir رضي الله عنه narrated that the Prophet صلَّى الله عليه وسلَّم said, “War is deception.” [Muslim]

The problem with trying to follow the middle path as we are commanded to do, is that there will usually be extremes on either side condemning moderation as proof of belonging to the “other camp.” If however, our intention is to earn Allāh’s pleasure, then let us continue anyway.

Whether the Charlie Hebdo incident is true as depicted or yet another false flag is not what I am addressing here. To my mind, when the same Hollywood script is used ad nauseam and they can’t come up with a better plot of Muslim terrorists who keep leaving their passports and ID cards for the good guys to find, then something is definitely…