Is Islamic terrorism an aberration?
No, not at all! If you
had read my previous answers you will certainly understand that Islam is at
perpetual war with the non-Islamic world. Islamic terrorism is absolutely an
integral part of real Islam. Those who read the Qur’an and ahadith
(Muhammad’s deeds and traditions) and want to emulate them cannot help
but be a terrorist. They must hate the non-Muslims, humiliate them, distrust
them, deceive them at every opportunity and kill them when the situation is
appropriate. This is the stipulation of the central doctrine of Islam. A Muslim
who does not emulate this cardinal premise of Islam is not a Muslim at all. In
fact, the Qur’an says that Allah has purchased the lives of Muslims (
9:11
-112) in exchange for booty and
Paradise
so that that they are obliged to sacrifice their lives or become martyrs (like
suicide bombing) when they go on a killing mission (5:94). This is a business
contract with Allah. All Muslims are strictly bound by Allah with this contract.
Those Muslims who are not killing the non-Muslims are simply reneging on this
un-alterable, interminable contract with Allah. That is why the Qur’an stands
solidly behind the Islamic terrorists. They are simply fulfilling their contract
with Allah. These terrorists are not an aberration of Islam. They are, in
reality, Islam as it was during Muhammad’s time and as it should be, and not
what the not-so-good Muslims thinks Islam to be—a religion of peace and
unbound love for humanity.
Is there a peaceful Islam that needs to be rescued?
I would ask those
people who say so to show me the proof from the foundations of Islam, that is,
from the Qur’an, ahadith and Sharia (Islamic laws). Often, we
read from Islamic apologists living in the Western countries some vague
statements extolling goodies of Islam. Out of more than six thousand verses in
the Qur’an, these cunning,
conniving and crafty Islamists often
quote a handful (in fact, there are only three such verses; 2:256, 5:32, 109:6)
of verses to hide their shame. What they do not want to let the world know is
that that all those earlier verses had been replaced by other later verses that
call for waging the pre-emptive war on an infidel world. I already mentioned a
few such murderous verses. Many are embedded in many pages of the Qur’an.
Please take a little time and study the Qur’an, if you do not believe me. You
might be shocked at what you read. You will notice that most Islamic
scholars/Imams living in Islamic Paradises will never agree with these Islamists
(I mean those living in Western countries) who twist their tongue to hide from
the gullible Western infidels the disgrace and the dark side of Islam. The truth
is: There is no peaceful or the moderate version of Islam. There are no two or
three Islams, as many naive infidels falsely believe. There is only one Qur’an
and so, there is only one Islam—the Islam preached and practiced by
Muhammad—the Islam contained in the Qur’an, ahadith and Sharia..
One may wish to call this the real or true Islam.
Is there such thing as moderate Islam?
Moderate Islam!? …This of
course, is a big joke, if not an utter lie. In the first place, for the
existence of moderate Islam/Muslims, there must be a ‘moderate’ Qur’an,
since the life-force of Islam is the Qur’an. If the Qur’an cannot be
‘moderated’ (i.e., a moderate Qur’an) then how is it possible to have a
moderate Islam and consequently moderate Muslim?
What we perceive as the
so-called moderate Muslims may be classified into three groups:
The first group--the
vast majority, probably around 90% of global Muslims, are simply Muslim by name
only. They have no idea about the contents of the Qur’an, ahadith and Sharia.
It is a misnomer to term them as moderate Muslims. Strictly speaking, if we go
by the Qur’an, they are not Muslims at all. According to Sharia law,
they might even be sentenced to death for not adhering strictly to Islam. The
second group, I would call them pretend
Muslims. They are probably around 5% of all Muslims globally. They
occasionally go to mosques on Fridays and on Eid days and sometimes pray and
fast at home. These Muslims are also hypocrites. When the dark side of Islam is
illustrated to them, they are disturbed, become defensive and try to justify the
evil nature of Islam by alluding to historical contexts. In reality, this is
simply nonsense, as the Qur’anic verses are valid for eternity and must be
acted upon by Muslims at all times, if one truly follows Islam. Therefore, the
argument of historical context does not at all apply to the Qur’an. However,
these so-called moderate Muslims discover in Islam what Islam is not meant to
be. They resort to twisted meanings of those numerous brutal verses, and attempt
to transform them into loving and kissing ones. How can we call this group of
Muslims as moderate? The third group (another 4% of Muslims) are the Islamists
who have no guts to blow themselves up but resort to intellectual Jihad
and academic and philosophical terrorism. They are the spiritual foundation of
the real Islamic terrorists. This group of the so-called moderate Muslims are,
in reality, the silent supporters of all the Jihadists and suicide bombers. They
regularly visit mosques, organise Islamic seminars, send e-mails to gullible
non-believers and design Islamic websites. Many of them are Imams in mosques.
They are diehard ritualists—never missing a single prayer, always patronising halal
eateries (while living in infidel lands), soliciting funds and Zakat (Islamic alms) money to finance Jihad in
Afghanistan
,
Iraq
,
Chechnya
,
Kashmir
and so on. They exhort other not-so-good Muslims to hate the non-Muslims. So,
you see, there is no such thing as moderate Muslims. Those who claim to be so
are simply hypocrites—the silent and opportunistic Islamists—plain and
simple.
Can the moderate Islam win over the extremist Islam?
As I said before, the
term moderate Muslim is just a misnomer. They will never be able to quell the
intense rage, extreme abhorrence and unbound fury of the Islamic terrorists. The
Islamists are also trying to recruit the nascent terrorists from this group, the
so-called moderate Muslims. Those moderate
Muslims who join the rank of Jihadists get the full blessings of the clerics and
the commanders of the terror groups. Those
moderate Muslims who do not join the
terrorists are considered as the lap dogs of the West, vilified, harassed upon and labelled as
traitors of Islam. Some of them (I mean the so called moderate Muslims) might
even be the targets of the suicide bombers (it is already happening in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
). Therefore, these so-called moderate Muslims will not win in the fight against
the Islamic terrorists.
Has the West been responsible in anyways for how Muslims feel?
If we say that the
colonisation of some of the so-called Muslim lands by the West is a prime reason
of the extreme anger and hate towards the West, then we must also blame the
Islamic world for colonising the major parts of Asia, Africa, Central Asia and
Spain
. Why the Bedouin Arabs/Muslims had to conquer and subjugate lands like
India
,
Egypt
,
Iran
,
Tunisia
, etc? Who gave them the right to perpetrate Bedouin barbarism and mayhem in
those civilised worlds? The Islamic world is now reaping the fruit for the seed
they had sown a thousand years ago. The West had simply resorted to what was
beneficial for them and for the colonised territories. If we consider that the
world is a might is right game then
Islam played this game before and now it has to pay a price for its uncivilised
and barbaric aggression. Islam should not complain much. What goes around also
comes around.
My personal view is
that the colonisation by the West does have some bearing. But this is just a
minor issue, very minor indeed. The past is past and many decolonised nations
are progressing well. If we are to go by the Islamists’ logic then why is it
that the Hindus and the Buddhists are not resorting to terrorism to avenge their
past colonial masters?
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