Terrorism and Islam go hand in hand. Does it really? We are always confronted by this question on our faces everytime we see a news pop up on terrorism. And I can't tell you that you are completely wrong by any means. After all, even I, at times had to encounter that question in my head. Here, in this article I try to decipher some common myths(can I say so?) relating terrorism to Islam.
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and you name it. Almost any organisation that makes headlines for all the wrong reasons is muslim(I am terribly sorry). And I am feel really sorry to put this down in words and it is one of the deepest pities in my heart to accuse an entire social group for a particular number of individuals or organisations that relate to that social group in some way or another.
But, inspite of people who don't belong to Islam feeling that the religion as a whole should not be blamed for the activities of a certain number of people, and people that are Muslim that oppose terrorism under their name, we are in need of examination of some kind to just make things somewhat more clear than it is. Islam's holy script, the Holy Quran, at places, emphasises on the concept of making wars inorder to defend the pride of the religion.
After all, the story of the holy wars, namely,'The Crusades' is something we have all read about in our history lessons. Unfortunately, islam was involved in the holy wars too. Today, the concept of offering oneselves to protect the pride of the religion has turned and taken some more lethal forms,say for instance, 'jihad'. Apparently, 'jihad' means ' a fight against the enemies of Islam'. Thus, it sometimes makes way for a particular question to be raised,"Does Islam promote violence just inorder to save an abstract attribute of an abstract entity whose only objective of inception was only to promote peace and integrity?".
Indeed, I am one of those whose heads raised the question within itself. But going by the recent occurences of the unforgivable and unaccpetable acts of terrorism and the people involved in those acts using the term 'jihad', it makes us question that if that was the true meaning behind the word 'jihad'.
I am indeed writing this article with a heavy heart for my fellow humans that were massacred cowardly by the suicide bombers, that too, at a few churches in Srilanka. Also, it makes me lose hope that a few weeks ago, in Newzealand, several people were killed in the shooting that took place in a mosque of NZ. This time, it was an attack against the muslims, not in the name of them. A person, allegedly a christian, went into the mosque with a gun and shot evreyone that he saw. Acts like these are some of the rare occurrences of violence against muslims by non muslim individuals or groups.
I fall in line with the muslim brothers and sisters of Srilanka, who are indeed sorry for whatever gory act of violence that used their name. They aren't denying the fact that their religion was involved in the attacks. They feel sorry for the people that were killed and strongly condemn acts like these under their name. Apparently, 'jihad' isn't for everyone that is muslim and people who are not muslim should also acknowledge that fact. If most people had come to that conclusion, attacks like the one on Kiwi soil, wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't have had so much of blood spilled on our hands.
After all, it is the same human blood and the pain that people undergo are the same, irrespective of their religion. People like us, collectively as the human tribe, undivided by religions should join hands against any act of violence or mass destruction. Religions and tribes are just a shield used by the people that create and carry on with their created turbulence. When Hitler was a destructing all day, he used a separate ideology and grouped people with similar interests, brainwashed some, all just to focus his destructive works on a particular religion or a group of people. Nevertheless, it led somewhere else, which is not something we will be discussing now.
Terrorism is for fools; for the brainwashed; for the weak who can't put their problems to a solution by rational and non-violent means. Religion, any, after all, shouldn't be the motive behind any terror act, and it is a shame that people use religions or any group for their ghastly and sinful purposes.
STAND AGAINST TERROR! STAY UNDIVIDED BY RELIGIONS!
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and you name it. Almost any organisation that makes headlines for all the wrong reasons is muslim(I am terribly sorry). And I am feel really sorry to put this down in words and it is one of the deepest pities in my heart to accuse an entire social group for a particular number of individuals or organisations that relate to that social group in some way or another.
But, inspite of people who don't belong to Islam feeling that the religion as a whole should not be blamed for the activities of a certain number of people, and people that are Muslim that oppose terrorism under their name, we are in need of examination of some kind to just make things somewhat more clear than it is. Islam's holy script, the Holy Quran, at places, emphasises on the concept of making wars inorder to defend the pride of the religion.
After all, the story of the holy wars, namely,'The Crusades' is something we have all read about in our history lessons. Unfortunately, islam was involved in the holy wars too. Today, the concept of offering oneselves to protect the pride of the religion has turned and taken some more lethal forms,say for instance, 'jihad'. Apparently, 'jihad' means ' a fight against the enemies of Islam'. Thus, it sometimes makes way for a particular question to be raised,"Does Islam promote violence just inorder to save an abstract attribute of an abstract entity whose only objective of inception was only to promote peace and integrity?".
Indeed, I am one of those whose heads raised the question within itself. But going by the recent occurences of the unforgivable and unaccpetable acts of terrorism and the people involved in those acts using the term 'jihad', it makes us question that if that was the true meaning behind the word 'jihad'.
I am indeed writing this article with a heavy heart for my fellow humans that were massacred cowardly by the suicide bombers, that too, at a few churches in Srilanka. Also, it makes me lose hope that a few weeks ago, in Newzealand, several people were killed in the shooting that took place in a mosque of NZ. This time, it was an attack against the muslims, not in the name of them. A person, allegedly a christian, went into the mosque with a gun and shot evreyone that he saw. Acts like these are some of the rare occurrences of violence against muslims by non muslim individuals or groups.
I fall in line with the muslim brothers and sisters of Srilanka, who are indeed sorry for whatever gory act of violence that used their name. They aren't denying the fact that their religion was involved in the attacks. They feel sorry for the people that were killed and strongly condemn acts like these under their name. Apparently, 'jihad' isn't for everyone that is muslim and people who are not muslim should also acknowledge that fact. If most people had come to that conclusion, attacks like the one on Kiwi soil, wouldn't have happened and we wouldn't have had so much of blood spilled on our hands.
After all, it is the same human blood and the pain that people undergo are the same, irrespective of their religion. People like us, collectively as the human tribe, undivided by religions should join hands against any act of violence or mass destruction. Religions and tribes are just a shield used by the people that create and carry on with their created turbulence. When Hitler was a destructing all day, he used a separate ideology and grouped people with similar interests, brainwashed some, all just to focus his destructive works on a particular religion or a group of people. Nevertheless, it led somewhere else, which is not something we will be discussing now.
Terrorism is for fools; for the brainwashed; for the weak who can't put their problems to a solution by rational and non-violent means. Religion, any, after all, shouldn't be the motive behind any terror act, and it is a shame that people use religions or any group for their ghastly and sinful purposes.
STAND AGAINST TERROR! STAY UNDIVIDED BY RELIGIONS!
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