Translated to ISLAM IN LINE by: Shams
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INTRODUCTION During the past two decades in particular, the concept of "Islamic terror" has been discussed regularly. With the coming of the terrorist attacks of September 11 in New York and Washington that killed thousands of innocent civilians, this concept has returned to head the international agenda.
As Muslims, we completely condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the Americans.
In this article, we explain that Islam is not the source or origin of this violence and that it has no place in Islam.
While hijackers were Muslim identities, the terror they perpetrated can not be registered under the "Islamic terror", nor may be called "Jewish terror" if the perpetrators were Jews or "Christian terror" if they were Christians.
This is because killing innocent people in the name of religion is unacceptable. We must bear in mind that among the people who died in New York or Washington, there were people who loved Jesus (Christians), Prophet Moses (Jews) and Muslims. According to Islam, murdering innocent people is a great sin, unless it is forgiven by God, brings torment in Hell.
Therefore, a religious person who fears God will never commit such acts.
In fact, the aggressors can commit such violence with the sole intention of attacking religion itself. They might have done such violence to present religion as evil in the eyes of the people, to separate religion and generate hatred and reaction against pious people. Consequently, every attack with the stigma of "religious" to American citizens or other innocent people is actually an attack on religion.
The three monotheistic religions, ordered love, compassion and peace. Terror, on the other hand is the opposite of religion, it is cruel, merciless and demands bloodshed and misery. If this is the case, looking at perpetrators of a terrorist act, its origins should be sought in disbelief rather than religion. People with vision of life fascist, communist, racist or materialist, must be suspected of potential perpetrators.
The name or identity of the trigger is not important. If you can kill innocent people without blinking an eye, whatever its label, then it is an infidel and not a believer. He is a murderer with no fear of God, whose main ambition is to shed blood and cause damage.
For this reason, the "Islamic terror" is a misconception which contradicts the Islamic message. This is because, the religion of Islam can not agree or coincide with terror. On the contrary, Muslims are responsible for preventing terrorist acts and bringing peace and justice to the world.
VALUES Quran demands KINDNESS, JUSTICE AND PEACE
terror in its crudest sense, is violence committed against non-military targets for political purposes. To put it another way, the targets of terror are innocent civilians whose only crime is, in the eyes of terrorists, the performance "of others."
This is an act without moral justification. This, as in cases of murder committed by Hitler or Stalin, is a crime against all of "humanity."
The Quran is a Book revealed to people as a guide straight and in this Book, God commands man to adopt good moral conduct. This morality is based on concepts such as love, compassion, tolerance and mercy. God calls all people to Islamic morals, by which compassion, mercy, peace and tolerance can be experienced throughout the world:
"Believers Enter absolutely into peace (Islam) and follow not the footsteps of Satan: he is to you an avowed enemy. "(Qur'an 2: 208)
values \u200b\u200bof the Quran, the Muslim held responsible for treating all people, whether Muslim or not, so, kind and fair, protecting the needy and the innocent and preventing the "dissemination of injury." The damage includes all forms of anarchy and terror that move the safety, welfare and peace. As God says in one verse, "God does not love mischief." (Quran 28:77)
The murder of a person without cause is one of the most obvious examples of harm. God repeats in the Qur'an a command He formally revealed to the Jews in the Old Testament:
"For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person would not have killed anyone or corruption in land, it is as if he slew the whole humanity. And if anyone saved a life, it is as if he saved the lives of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them with clear proofs, but despite them, many committed excesses on earth. "(Qur'an 5:32)
As the verse suggests, a person who killed a simple man," unless be retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption on earth ", commits a crime as if he killed all mankind.
As this is the case, it is obvious that great sins are the murders, massacres and attacks committed by terrorists. God informs us how this cruel face of terrorism will be punished in the afterlife in this verse:
"only grounds against those who oppress men and tyrants in the earth unjustly. Such men have a painful punishment. "(Qur'an 42:42)
All this tells us that organizing acts of terror against innocent people is utterly against Islam and a Muslim can not commit such crimes. On the contrary, Muslims are responsible for stopping these people, removing "the damage to the land" and bring peace and security to all people around the world. Being a Muslim can not be compatible with terror. Just the opposite, is the solution the prevention of terror.
How did the term "Islamic terror"?
As has been discussed so far reveals that it is not possible to speak of "terror Islamic. "Indeed, a closer examination of the characteristics of the perpetrators explicitly reveals that this terror is not a religious but a social phenomenon.
CROSS: STOLEN YOUR OWN RELIGION trampling
The real message of a religion or any other system of belief can be at times exposed to distortion by its pseudo-adherents. The Crusaders, who constitute a dark episode in the history of Christianity, gives a good example of this.
Those who were in the Crusades were European Christians who took expeditions at the end of the eleventh century to recover the Holy Land (the area around Palestine) from the Muslims. It formed the so-called "religious purpose", however, entered the territories causing violence and fear. Subjected civilians to mass executions and plundered many villages and towns.
The conquest of Jerusalem, where Muslims, Jews and Christians lived down the Islamic laws in peace, were scenes of huge massacres. Killed Muslims and Jews violently. The barbarism of the Crusades was so excessive that the Fourth, plundered Istanbul, also a Christian city and stole the golden objects from the churches.
Although Christianity is a religion of love and peace, the Crusades killed many people innocent in the name of Christ. Misunderstood their religion. Clearly, all this barbarism is against the policy of the Christian doctrine. This is because Christianity, biblical words, is a doctrine of love. " In the Gospel according to Matthew, it says that Jesus told his followers, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." (Mateo5: 44)
In the Gospel according to Luke, Jesus says: "If someone strikes you on one cheek turned the other also. " (Luke 6:29). No doubt, in any part of the New Testament, there is a reference to the legitimacy of violence, killing innocent people, on the other hand, is unimaginable. You can find the concept of "slaughter of the innocents" in the Bible, but only in the United Jewish cruelty of King Herod wanted to kill Jesus as a baby.
While Christianity is a religion based on love that will not accept violence, how come the Christian Crusades could have brought out the worst violence in history?. The main reason for this is, the Crusaders were mainly made by ignorant people who can be defined as "rabble." These masses, which did not really know anything about their religion, who had never even seen or read a Bible in his life, and of course had no knowledge of moral values of the Bible, were led into barbarism under the condition of the slogans of the Crusades as "God wills it."
is well above that during this period, Christians of the West, the Byzantines, for example, who were culturally more advanced than the Christians in the east, showed greater human values. Both before and after the conquests of the Crusades, Orthodox Christians managed to live together with Muslims. According to Terry Johns, the BBC commentator, with the coming of the Crusades of the Middle East, "civilized life started again and members of the three monotheistic religions returned to peaceful coexistence." (1) The example of the Crusaders is indicative of a general phenomenon: The more people within an ideology is uncivilized, not unwrap it intellectually and "ignorant", the more they tend toward violence. You can also support this idea for ideologies that have nothing to do with religion. All communist movements around the world are prone to violence. The wildest and bloodiest of these was the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. This is because they were the most ignorant.
Just as ignorant people can take a view of violence to the point of madness, can also confuse violence with an opinion against violence (or religion). The Islamic world also experienced such cases.
Bedouin STATUS IN THE KORAN.
In the period of our Prophet, there existed two basic social structures in Arabia who lived in the city and Bedouins (Desert Arabs). A sophisticated culture prevailed in Arab towns. Joined commercial relations with the outside world peoples, contributing to the formation of "civilized life" among Arabs who lived in the ciudades.Desarrollaron aesthetic values, enjoyed literature and especially poetry. The Bedouin, on the other hand, were nomadic tribes living in the desert, oblivious to the arts and literature, and developed a very severe character.
Islam was born and developed among the inhabitants of Mecca, the most important city of the peninsula. However, as Islam spread in this, all the tribes in Arabia converted. Among these tribes were also Bedouin, who were somehow problematic: their poor roots both intellectually and culturally maintained without the depth and nobility of the spirit of Islam. For this reason God gives this verse:
"The Bedouin are the infidels, the more hypocritical and more likely to ignore laws contained in the revelation of Allah to His messenger. Allah is Knower, Wise. "(Quran 9: 97)
Bedouins, that is, social groups who were unfaithful, hypocritical and prone to disobey God's commands, they became part of the Islamic world after the Prophet. was also carried out because of problems in the Islamic world. The sect called "Kharijis" that emerged from the Bedouins was an example. The characteristic feature of this perverse sect (which was called because the rebels Kharijis deviated from Sunni practices), was vulgar nature, wild and fanatical. The Kharijis, who had no understanding of the essence of Islam or the virtues and values \u200b\u200bof the Koran, started the war against all other Muslims and this war based on some of the Quranic verses that distorted their interpretations. Later, carried out "acts of terrorism." The Caliph Ali, who was one of the closest companions of the Prophet and was described by him as "the gateway to the city of knowledge" was killed by a Kharijite.
time later, the "Hashashis" (murderers) another brutal, emerged, this was a "terrorist organization" created by ignorant and fanatical militants from a thorough understanding of the essence of Islam and therefore they could be influenced by simple slogans and promises.
In other words, just as the Crusaders distorted and misinterpreted Christianity as a teaching of brutality, some perverted groups emerged in the Islamic world and misinterpreted Islam and resorted to brutality. What is common between these sects and the Crusaders was their nature "Bedouin." That is, they were ignorant, unrefined, uncultivated, vulgar, and isolated people. The violence, which was used, resulting in their social structure, rather than the religion that claimed to adhere.
THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM TODAY: Fanaticism THIRD WORLD.
These examples from history give us light to better understand the phenomenon, the so-called "Islamic terror", which today is primarily on the international agenda. This is because those who come here and carry out acts of terrorism in the name of Islam or those who back such acts-these people undoubtedly represent a minority in the Islamic world are derived from the "Bedouin character", not Islam. Making a mistake in understanding the essence of Islam, tried to make Islam, which is essentially a religion of peace and justice, a tool of barbarism, which was simply a manifestation of social and cultural structure. The origin of this barbarism, which may well be called "fanaticism of the third world ", is the initiative of people who are devoid of love for others.
is a fact that, for the past centuries, Muslims in all corners of the Islamic world have been subjected to violence by Western forces and their allies. The colonialist European states, local oppressive regimes or colonialists helped by the West (Israel for example) caused great suffering to Muslims. However, for Muslims, this is a situation that must be addressed purely Koranic positions.
In any part of the Quran, God commands believers to "respond with violence, violence." Rather, God commands Muslims to "respond evil with goodness ":
" It's not like can goodness and evil. Repel with what is best and behold, one of whom thee was hatred become bosom friend "(Quran 41: 34)
is no doubt that is the right of Muslims to react against cruelty . However, these reactions should never become blind hatred, unjust enmity. God warns us of this in the following verse:
"... that you have to hate people you recently departed from the Sacred Mosque I incitement to violate the law. Bear one another to practice piety and fear of Allah, not sin and violation of the law. !..." And fear Allah (Quran 5: 2)
Consequently, to terrorist acts under the pretense of "representing the oppressed nations of the world", against innocent people of other nations is not compatible with Islam.
Another point that deserves attention here is that the Western world can not be responsible for the aforementioned colonial (or neo-colonialism), violence and oppression against Muslims. The materialist, irreligious philosophies and ideologies that prevailed in the nineteenth century are responsible for these appalling acts. European colonialism did not originate from Christianity. By contrast, anti-religious movements opposed to Christian values, given the way for colonialism. At the root of the greatest brutalities of nineteenth century rest in the Social Darwinist ideology.
currently in the West, there are elements which oppose cruel and a culture dominated by peaceful and just elements that have roots in Judeo-Christian faith. In fact, further discussion is not between the West and Islam. Contrary to popular belief, is among religious people of the West and the Muslim world on the one hand and the people of opposition on the other side.
Another indication that fanaticism (materialists and atheists)'s called Third World has nothing to do with Islam, is that only recently, this fanaticism has been identified with communist ideology. As is known, similar acts of terrorism were carried out in the sixties and seventies by communist organizations backed by the Soviets.
As the impact of communist ideology faded, some of the social structures that gave birth to communist organizations turned their attention to Islam. This "brutality presented under the religion" which are made in the incorporation of some Islamic concepts and symbols in a communist rhetoric are entirely against the moral values \u200b\u200bthat are the essence of Islam.
anti-Western radicalism once used the communist ideology as a basis for violence. Now he is trying to religious concepts. As a last remark on the matter is that Islam is not exclusive to any particular nation or geography. Contrary to the dominant Western perception, Islam is not a culture of the East. Islam is the last religion revealed to mankind as a guide to the straight path is recommended for all humanity. Muslims are responsible for communicating the true religion that they believe all people of all nations and cultures and make them feel closer to Islam.
Consequently, there is a unique solution for people or groups who, in the name of Islam, resort to terror or establish oppressive regimes and turn this world a terrible place instead of making beautiful, revealing the true Islam and communicating it so that the masses can understand and live in it.
CONCLUSION: RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE WORLD OF THE WEST
Currently, the western world is concerned about the organizations that use terror under the name of Islam and their concern is not diverted. It is obvious that those who bring terror and those who remain should be punished according to international judicial criteria.
However, one more point to consider are the strategies that have had to carry out viable solutions to these problems.
The above shows that terror has no place in Islam. Then show the contradictory concept of "Islamic terror." This gives us an important vantage point:
The Western world, especially the United States, surely deterrent measures have been taken to deal with terror. However, it must be explicitly that this is not a war against Islam and Muslims, but rather, largely serving the interests of Islam. The "clash of civilizations", the dangerous scenario that he was in the nineties should be prevented at all costs.
Help should be given to spread the true Islam, religion is love, friendship, peace and brotherhood, and for its true understanding by Islamic societies. The solution of radical groups in Islamic countries should not be "forced secularization." On the contrary, such a policy will incite more reaction from the masses and feed radicalism. The solution is to spread the true Islam and the emergence of a Muslim who embraces the values \u200b\u200bof the Qur'an as human rights, democracy, freedom, morality, science and aesthetics that offers happiness and bliss to all mankind.
The cause of terrorism is ignorance and bigotry and the solution is education. For circles who feel sympathy by terror, it must be said that terrorism is against Islam, that terror only cause harm to Islam, Muslims and all humanity. In addition, these people should be given education in order to purify this barbarism. The United States support for such education could have positive results. Our hope is that these measures will help the world get rid of terrorism and fanatical structures brutal and barbaric. With its culture and dominant Christian population in the United States, which defines it as a "nation under God" is actually a very good friend of Muslims. In the Qur'an, God pays attention to this fact and informs us Christians are the most "close to the believers." (Quran 5:82).
In history, ignorant people (eg in the Crusades), did not understand this fact and caused conflicts between these two great religions. To prevent the repetition of this scenario, true Christians and Muslims need to unite and cooperate.
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