Top 10 “Muslim Work Week (PMB) Speech Contest 2021”
1st Champion of Hope “Muslim Work Week (PMB) Speech Contest 2021″
Surakarta – Fauziyah Oktofiani, a new student at the Indonusa Polytechnic Surakarta, the D3 Pharmacy study program, managed to enter the top 10 1st place winner at the Muslim Work Week (PMB) Speech Contest 2021 with the theme “The Role of Muslims in the Advancement of Civilization and Its Challenges” organized by the Muslim Student Association of Accounting Study Program. Medan State Polytechnic.
In this competition, Fauziyah Oktofiani packaged a video of her competition with a duration of 5 minutes with the title “Eliminate Islamophobia and Create IslamOphilia”. The content of the video explains that Islamophobia is an observational phenomenon that refers to observation, discrimination, fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims. Since 2019, there has been an increasing number of incidents of fear and hatred against western countries. They use several attributes to describe the Muslims, including fanatics, incompetence, fundamentalism, barbarians, terrorists, autocratic and bloodthirsty. Islam is considered the dark side of Europe. Even this picture of Islam is still alive and enshrined in new fiction books.
Fauziyah Oktofiani also explained that the actual contribution of Islam to the progress of civilization, especially in the aspect of science. Gore Barton revealed that western people in developing science do not fully refer to Greek sources but to Arabic sources.
Islam has saved the west from the darkness of science, therefore there is no reason to be afraid to fight Islamophobia and strengthen the foundations and pillars of Islamophilia. The trick is to provide education to virtual friends or the real world about the dangers of Islamophobia, using language that is easy to understand but still true, detailed and not misunderstood. Not only that, closencooperation between Muslim communities and scholars around the world plays a very important role in neutralizing Islamic extremist views and Islamophobia that develop in society. In this way, Islamophiles will be born and the term Islamophobia will be erased, because Islam is a beautiful, tolerant religion, not terrorist, civilized, moral and peace-loving.
The competition was attended by 45 participants from junior high school students to university students, registration and video submissions were held on 21 June – 05 August 2021 and announced on 08 August 2021 which would be held online.
