Dear Readers,
Yes ofcourse all the terrorists are Muslims. Why? Cuz the media which is duped by the Western lords to successfully brand the Muslims as Terrorists. Terrorism has become synonymous with Islam. Why? Cuz of our failure. No one calls Mr. Bush a terrorist when he being an Evangelican Christian - he bombed Iraq without any justification. No one calls USA an axis of evil when it bombed Hirsosheema. No one calls Israeli PM as the most evil terrorist when he ordered hundreds to be killed in the name of defending Israel - a massive disproportionate use of force. No one calls the Christians in Nigeria - the Christian terrorists when the kill Muslims. No one calls Mr. Desmond Tutu as religious politican when he calls for Mugabe to be ousted by force. No one calls Latin American ppl to be Christian terrorists when the burn the movie theatre's screen when the Last Temptation of Christ is screened. No one calls Sikhs religious fanatics when they throw bombs in Delhi. No one calls Tamils as Hindu fanatics when they want freedom from Sri Lanka.Then why Mindanao is the base of Muslim terrorism?
Simple answer! Only Muslims have universal brotherhood sentiment. To break it with abuse - is the latest weapon with the help of atheists in the camouflage of various peace loving faiths. Why no one accepts - if any one who commits atrocity against humanity is in fact against his own faith - be he Muslim or Christian or Hindu? Cuz this is the handy work of the axis of evil. The people who do do not believe that there is a life hereafter where we have to give accounts for our morality, the people who constantly use abuses and filthy languages and sperad hatred against all religions and constantly try to create animosity amongst all religions - are the atheists - beyond doubt. We have allowed the atheist fanatics and hate mongers to steal the name of Secularism and modernity owing to our own failure in understanding our faiths. We do not know Quran or Hadith and we get easily swayed and concede defeat when the atheists throw out of context verses from their poorly informed trainers. We have allowed the abusers to believe that it is our faith that teaches and preaches evil. We have allowed ppl to grow more curious about atheist scholars by banning their books intead of asking Islamic scholars to take up the challenge in debates openly about those allegations. We have learnt not to read other scriptures and not to read Satanic Verses and not to question our faith logically. Why? Because in fact our knowledge is too poor to answer apparent difficult questions which the abusers have started using as weapons. We forget that Islam is the only religion that calls for dialogues in its scriptures and Islam has no weaknesses. Islam is the faith of the Muttaki. Idiots needs to get out of this faith. Islam was headed by our Prophet (pbuh) by a dedicated, unhindered and confident few who always gave a warning before allowing new comers in their circle of love and peace - U ENTER Islam after knowing about it completely and comprehensively - and If u enter Islam to ridicule it - WE will inflict the harshest PUNISHMENT. We should sort out our own followers who preach anti-Islamic sentiments in the name of our faith.
It is our fault and none other's! We have allowed this evil to work within us to abuse the name of Islam and uphold themselves as Muslims. Allah will surely filter the followers of true Islam Inshallah.
Mufassil Islam
Human Rights Advocate
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: maqsudo@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:06:31 +0000
Subject: [ALOCHONA] RE: reputation of muslim
Sir, Why are All Terrorists Muslims?
"Sir, why is it that all terrorists are Muslims?" Prajvi Bagga Malhotra, a Class 11 student of Modern School, asked me this question during a discussion about current events. This was a very timely, bold but sensible question and being a Muslim, I was accountable to address the curiosity in the minds of a class of 52 students.
Prajvi isn't the only one to have alluded to the Western media coined statement that all terrorists are Muslims but all Muslims are not terrorists. With so many voices stating that the religion advocates violence, Islam is today under the scanner. Not all of them can be wrong - people judge by what they see and today these terrorists speak and act violently in the name of Islam.
I told Prajvi that the guiding themes of every religion are the same. Islam too has the same theme and ideology as other religions but a few people misled some of its followers in the name of god.
26/11 (Mumbai), Kafeel in Glasgow, Mumbai blasts by the Memons and others in India, the jehadis in Kashmir, 9/11, 7/7 (London), 13/12 (Delhi), 29/10 (Delhi) and the Al Qaeda at a global level - all these make my head go down in shame.
It's so embarrassing that each time a Muslim name is found attached with the inhuman and insane acts of terrorism.
Note that jehad is the most misunderstood and misconstrued concept by our non-Muslim brethren and even Muslims. The true concept of jehad in Islam is not to be against other communities, groups or religions but to be against one's own selfish nature, vices and shortcomings within Muslim society in order to fight evil, injustice, inequity, illiteracy and ignorance. First an individual fights jehad against himself to get cleansed. After that he continues the efforts with his wife, family, locality and the whole community. This is Jehad-e-Akbar, the right meaning of jehad.
Terrorism is a political process and religion or a religious community has nothing to do with it. Neither does any religion teach to kill innocents (that is what the terrorists do) nor are the terrorists the people chosen by that religious community to undertake such ghastly acts on their behalf.
Nevertheless, an average Muslim's fears are hate crimes, difficulty in finding jobs, admissions and residential accommodation, unwanted repercussions, distrust and other such things that always get exacerbated by such incidents. Muslims also fear a backlash like the 1984 Sikh riots against them. Terrorists should not be helped in creating a rift between communities.
The Mumbai attackers did try to create a cleavage between Hindus and Muslims. However, though a tragic incident, it did have a silver lining in that it cut across religious lines and saw people uniting in their horror and outrage.
But leaders of some parties have even begun to think that any criticism of Pakistan would not be relished by this country's Muslims.
I still remember that during the last general elections in India, to appease Muslims the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) boasted of the Lahore bus and improving relations with Pakistan as one of its major achievements. It's so sad that these people still treat Indian Muslims as Pakistan's stooges.
Though all Indians know that a few terrorists do not tarnish a whole community, the government for fear of losing votes will not take the matter up with the Pakistani government seriously and will just resort to rhetoric.
It is quite clear now that Indian politicians of all shades were somehow living under an illusion that if they were to turn harsh against acts of terror, they would alienate the Muslims of this country.
When will they ever realize that by doing so they are clearly reflecting their perverted psyche of labeling all Indian Muslims as pro-Pakistanis, which is the worst abuse for any Indian Muslim.
Going soft on terror will not make Muslims happy as the perpetrators of such acts do not segregate their targets by religion. If the politicians of this country think that by shying away from taking on terrorists directly and by going soft on terror they will get kudos from Muslims, they are sadly mistaken.
The public in general has now had enough of those who exploit religious sentiment in order to gain electoral and political mileage. The recent poll results in Delhi are an indication of that.
The rider is: let us save Islam from "the Muslims", Hinduism from "the Hindus", Christianity from "the Christians", Judaism from "the Jews" and Sikhism from "the Sikhs" and other zealots as religion is a very personal matter and as humans, we are all same.
(Firoz Bakht Ahmed is a commentator on social and religious issues and the grandnephew of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the freedom fighter. He can be reached at firozbakhtahmed07@
December 15, 2008
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