Many times, we don't even notice where we crossed a line.

Let there be no compulsion in religion… (Quran 2:256)

I start with the prescription of Quran, which lays down the principle in black and white: applying compulsion is forbidden! This prohibition extends not only to deeds but also to wording.
We Muslims are often victims of the hatred that surrounds us, but we must confess that we do for that a lot. We do not speak and relate to our environment in accordance with the above revelation. If there is no compulsion and hatred on either side, coexistence works beautifully. If someone appears on the scene, threatens and tells others what they have to do, peace between people is upset.

Today I no longer have any contact with any community. However, I have been to many places throughout my life and been a member, leader or simply interested in many communities. These were not only Muslim congregations. It is only a matter of time and the community wants to prove that it is better than others based on some sets of value. From here, the story is known by everybody. But this set of value is never about to serve public affairs, humanitarian purposes, other people quietly, without raising attention.
Then another familiar picture comes. Ali comes here, whatever nationality he may be, let's not this be the matter now. Ali has been hosted by a continent, a country, gets a job, then an abode over his head. Practically gets what he never had in his own country. If he misses something, he is not asking but demanding! He must get it! He suddenly has rights! Why didn't you claim those rights in your homeland, Ali? Then he visits some communities and dictates. He is not humble and not seeking the service of a community, but intervenes into the matters, criticizes and prescribes. He's not even warmed up in the host country and gives commands. Doesn’t he think that his mind capacity is limited, unprepared and what he feels within himself as knowledge is nothing more than national populism wrapped in a religion, an idea on a local conflict, or his own invention? Hey, Ali! Don't import your shit here. "There is no compulsion in religion!" Don't you understand? Don't send emails, messages to instruct me, but go back to your homeland and try to instruct people in the mosques there which are closed during the day and you get only half an hour prayer time to fulfill the daily obligation. There you can deliver speeches about prescriptions! Try the same in a so-called Islamic country! Don't you dare, do you? You would be cut into pieces for the same thing.

But if you are already here, why don't you go to a museum, why don't you read books, why aren't you interested in the culture of the host nation, why don't you grow your knowledge? Many of my acquaintances have been living in Europe for 30-40 years and they communicate only within their own ethnic group. This fact does not change even if they get married from a local family. Most marriages fail after a while, precisely because of differences in culture and tradition. Excuse me, I have to correct myself. Not because of the differences, but because of the human weakness. Because, "there is no compulsion in religion!" Neither party can tolerate in a dispute not to set a victory flag over another. Intolerance and compulsion.

So far, I've criticized Ali, but neither Hans is better at the hosting end. Europe is also primitive, intolerant and superior, but in a different way. Fucking proud of what's not there. This is the socalled European value! What is that? Has already anyone defined it? What is uniquely European value, invented here and not found elsewhere? Christianity? This is not the land where it was born. However, it has been transformed into Inquisition here. Or, is looting of the world and making funds out of that for democracy building considered as value? Or creating the European Idea? After all, we trample two feet on it!

Please note that neither in the case of Ali nor Hans I have not criticized ideologies, ideas, religions, but man himself. I blame Ali and Hans, who did this with their own principles. They have distorted and misinterpreted their messages and contradicted the basic teachings as those were originally proclaimed.

We are forced to live together, no matter we want it or not, so we have to study each other. Europe is losing ground, Turkey is progressing, and gradually controlling the whole area of Mediterranean. Russia is building energy supply routes, China is a huge economic power, America is protecting the dollar. All of the above are interested in blackmailing, positioning the continent in a vulnerable market condition, or weakening Europe in monetary terms. All of the titans are shitting on the rights and values we fight for. If we are going to get out of this crisis a little bit better, then the only value what can pave way out is recognizing the situation together and harmonizing our thoughts.