What is wrong with the Sunni Unity Pledge…

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Assalamu alaikum, some people will say “there will always be the haters”, when speaking of people/sites who will continue to engage in the same sorts of things that the “Sunni Unity Pledge” is trying to do away with, and my question is, how do we deal with these people? Just saying “well there will always be the haters” makes me want to say, “And?”

What do we do then? And what is the point of the pledge if the same sort of fitna is still going to exist? I’m not saying the pledge is a bad thing, I supported it, no less. However, the pledge can’t be a pledge and then we just pat ourselves on the back and say, “hey look at me I support Sunni unity, don’t you?”

The pledge has to be a step and that is how I see it. The question then to me because “how do we deal with the haters”? Do we just pretend they don’t exist? What if said “haters” are respected by some of the very signitories of the pledge?

And I don’t care who we’re talking about here, “traditional” “Salafi” “sufi” whoever! A pledge is a pledge, but how do those of us deal with sites, groups, people, whoever, who engage in the sorts of things this pledge states it is against? I mean, if you come across something, and said “something” is takfir-ing a grup of Muslims you’ve said that you are “united” with, how would you handle that? How would you handle it if they said “these Muslims are dviant” or “these Muslims are engaging in bida” or “shirk”, or whatever?

I’m not saying that we’re going to answer *all* of these questions with one pledge. I’m saying that this pledge has to be a stepping stone to learning how to deal with these questions, among many others which people have brought up. The pledge should not be the end all, be all. We have to follow it up with action, and further steps to strengthen our unity, or at least, the mutual respect and tolerance that we say we want to be between each other. That is what I’m saying,a nd Inshallah, it will happen.