Sesetengah umat Islam di Malaysia boleh dikatakan buta sejarah luar dan pengikut melulu sesuatu yang dianggap trend. Contohnya memakai topeng Guy Fawkes sebagai simbol penentangan tanpa mengetahui apakah jalan kisah perjuangan Guy Fawkes sendiri - menegakkan kuasa monarki Katolik.
Namun apa yang jelas, Guy Fawkes akhirnya mati dengan cara membunuh diri setelah penentangannya digagalkan kerana rakyat England secara keseluruhannya menentang tindakan beliau. Dia melarikan diri dari tahanan bagi mengelakkan dirinya dipancung setelah ditangkap apabila ditemui membawa bahan letupan masuk ke Istana Westminster pada dinihari 5 November 1605. Malangnya ketika melarikan diri, dia jatuh dan mati akibat lehernya patah. Hari tersebut diperingati dengan patungnya dibakar.
Adakah 5 Mei 2013, aktivis pendukung 'Guy Fawkes' di Malaysia akan bunuh diri dan 5 Mei diperingati dengan patung seseorang itu dibakar? Tentulah tidak kerana tu bukan budaya negara ini walaupun budaya negara ini terkenal dengan mengikut secara melulu dengan cara yang memalukan.
Wajarlah gerakan Kristianisasi negara ini tersenyum lebar dengan gelagat anak muda Islam negara ini mengenakan topeng Guy Fawkes.
Sekadar ingatan untuk kita!
Ramai kalangan kita menggunakan topeng 'Guy Fawkes' sebagai simbol kepada penentangan dan pembebasan rakyat. Tetapi ramai tidak tahu bahawa 'Guy Fawkes' merupakan seorang revolusioner Kristian yang menentang Raja James 1 untuk memastikan pemerintahan Monarki Kristian dan penguasaan gereja semula dalam masyarakat Eropah.
Boleh dikatakan 'Guy Fawkes' juga merupakan seorang misionari Kristian yang membantu penyebaran agama itu.
Jadi sebagai umat Islam, kalau kita boleh mengharamkan sambutan Valentine, sambutan itu dan ini kerana sesuatu sambutan itu berunsur keagamaan, kenapa pula harus kita menggunakan topeng 'Guy Fawkes' seorang pejuang Kristian yang berjuang untuk agamanya sebagai lambang kita?
Jangan kita terperangkap dengan tipu daya Nasrani dan Yahudi!
— with Azmi Ishak Cikgu Mie, Azmir Azmi Scania, Cr Muhammad Azmi Abdullah and 85 others.
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as
Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the
Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial
English Catholics who planned the failed
Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Fawkes was born and educated in
York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a
recusant Catholic. Fawkes later converted to Catholicism and left for the continent, where he fought in the
Eighty Years' War on the side of Catholic Spain against Protestant Dutch
reformers. He travelled to Spain to seek support for a Catholic rebellion in England but was unsuccessful. He later met
Thomas Wintour, with whom he returned to England.
Wintour introduced Fawkes to
Robert Catesby, who planned to assassinate
King James Iand restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. The plotters secured the lease to an
undercroft beneath the
House of Lords, and Fawkes was placed in charge of the
gunpowder they stockpiled there. Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched
Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives. Over the next few days, he was questioned and tortured, and eventually he broke. Immediately before his execution on 31 January, Fawkes jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the
mutilation that followed.
Fawkes became synonymous with the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which has been commemorated in England since 5 November 1605. His effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, commonly accompanied by a
firework display.