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BLOWING
Edward Snowden
Jeffery Wigand
Being a whistle-blower has not been easy. Indeed, Mr. Wigand said he had
never become comfortable with the term ''whistle-blower.'
'I don't even like the word,'' he said. ''To me, it has a negative connotation.
And I struggle with what I did with what I knew; I really do.'
"The wordwhistle-blowersuggests that you're a tattletale or that you're
somehow disloyal," he says. "But I wasn't disloyal in the least bit. People
were dying. I was loyal to a higher order of ethical responsibility.
He simply told the truth, he says, about what he saw and experienced as
the head of R&D for (B& W)
how the company misled consumers about the highly addictive nature of
nicotine, how it ignored research indicating that some of the additives used
to improve flavor caused cancer, how it encoded and hid documents that
could be used against the company in lawsuits brought by sick or dying
smokers.
Islamic Conditions
The conditions listed by Bowie contain morality, prevention of harm,
truth, and replacing bad with good. Islam also has the same philosophy
with regard to issues of public disclosure:
Jabir (R.A) Narrated a Hadith from the Holy Prophet
(S.A.W.)"Discussions are confidential (not subject to disclosure) except
in three places: "Shedding unlawful blood, Unlawful cohabitation and
Unlawful accumulation of wealth". Narrated by Abu Dawud.
Another Hadith Narrated from Zaid Bin Khalid; the prophet (SAW) says:
"May I tell you who is the best witness? He who testify his witness
before asked to do so".Clearly this Hadith is stimulating us to blow the
whistle whether we are asked or not, provided it will have moral benefit
to the society.
As a good Muslim, one has to discharge all the duties (including whistle
blowing) that are said to be of obligatory nature and part of Iman, with
no expectation of any worldly incentive or extra protection, apart from
the general Islamic protection given to individuals.