Islam and Terrorism

Terrorism is one of the burning issues of our age. Terrorism has destroyed the world-peace. Every day, a large number of people are caught and killed because of terrorism. All countries of the world are trying to up-root terrorism but it is increasing day by day.

   Who is the real terrorist? All over the world, the Muslims are blamed as terrorist and extremists. Is it true? Not at all.The facts are otherwise.

  It is agreed on all hands that Islam means peace and submission to Allah and Holly prophet (PBUH). Islam is not involved in any kind of bloodshed, violence and terrorism. It is interesting to note that there is no consensus about the true concept of terrorism.

   Terrorism means "The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons." And extremism means "Ideas or actions which are not normal, responsible or acceptance to most people"

  According to the definition, the Muslims cannot be called terrorist or extremists, because a Muslim cannot be a terrorist and a terrorist cannot be a Muslim. The Holy prophet said, "He is not one of us who does not show tenderness to his younger's and respect to his elders."

  Today only the Muslims are the target of the worst type of terrorism. Muslims are condemned and crushed by media terrorism, economic terrorism and by state terrorism all over the world. There is a law in the world that when any country tries to oppress other country or a group tries to dominate others by violence, there should be a resistance against the oppressors and the terror-stricken should be helped. But no one has paid heed to this law. The Kashmir's are struggling for freedom against Indian oppressors, but all the world is ignoring this issue. In Palestine every day the target killing of the Muslims is common phenomena. The UN says that "the masses should be given basic right and they should not be deprived of human right and liberties". Everyone should have the right of self defense. No one mentions the terroristic activities of Hindus in Sri-Lanka, Christians in the whole world and Jews in Palestine. The image of Islam in west has been tarnished. There has been a stream of books with the titles such as, "The dagger of Islam", "The militant Islam", "The rage of Islam". Television has been showing multi-part series entitled "Terror in the name of Allah", which depicts the western mentality about Islam.

  The UN has become the puppet in the hand of the United States, they are trying to condemn and crush all those who are the enemies of their interest. They are obscuring the definition of terrorism. When UN has failed to differentiate between terrorism and freedom struggle. It is no longer a war against terrorism ,it is a war between barbarism of west and the eastern civilization. The Christianity is restricted to church and they also want Islam to be confined to the mosques.

   The Islamic civilization has given the world real civilization. Today uncultured and uncivilized people are trying to teach us morality and manners. Our history is replete with the examples of tolerance, forbearance and humanity. There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world. Every fifth man walking on the globe is a Muslim. The future of mankind cannot be peaceful until the west and Islam try to co-exist peacefully. And they can only co-exist if both let the other live according to their beliefs, cultures, traditions, laws and social norms. If both can only then can there be peace and co-existence between two.

Economics imbalance is one of the factors which is creating an acute sense of deprivation among the masses. I this age there is gap or gulf between the rich and the poor, and this factor is creating hatred and violence against each other and causing terrorism.  Electronic media and print media are causing economic and sexual starvation. Most of the governments are under the control of other countries, people of the country want something and they are provided with something other. This factor produces a sense of insecurity and people rise against it which causes a violence and terrorism.

  The enemies of Islam should know that Jihad is not a kind of terrorism. Jihad means to make  utmost struggle or to strive very hard but they are ignorant of the nature and influence of Jihad. Jihad is relentless war against aggression, oppression, poverty ignorance and all social evils and without the country . It is a holy war against all social evils, a freedom moment of the poor, the destitute and the down trodden. Islam did not spread because of war but inspire war.

  

The irony of the fate is that those who violated the rights of Asian and African countries for their own benefits and for the resources of oil and gas of Muslim countries are clamoring to fight against terrorism. What they have done in Vietnam, Afghanistan an in Iraq.

 All I can say is

                    "Those who live in glass houses don't throw stone on others."

Written By;- Asfand Naveed