06-30-2004, 09:23 PM
Salaam Alaikum!
Let me say this. I completely understand the gravitational weight of say, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, etc. But to insist that terrorism is secondary priority is clearly absurd, and a little short of pure blindness. Contrary to popular (Muslim) belief, terrorism in not on the fringes of Muslim society, and never has been. Sadly, it is at the heart of our problem. Terrorism, as diverse as it is, is a completely nihilistic approach to the world at hand, and can only be exterminated by a unilateral condemnation from us Muslims. By my own volition, I've taken the opportunity to denounce it for what it is---treachery. Saying that, I am not oblivious or apathetic about the horrors that go on in our Muslim lands by the hands of non-Muslims; I make every effort to condemn them. But it is terrorism in the name of Allah (swt) that takes Islam to hell and back. Beyond a vehement denunciation, I see virtually no end to terrorism. And this vehement denunciation must come from us Muslims.
Take, for example, Algeria. When those bloodthirsty terrorists detonated a bomb there and killed an X amount of people, the Muslims banded together and protested on the behalf of Islam. The terrorist got the message and will think thrice before attacking there again. That is what's needed to eradicate this “disease” called terrorism. As I said yesterday, the silent treatment is virtually a haven for the terrorists. If Muslims refuse to denounce it, the terrorists will continue to perpetuate their narrow view of Islam and further attacks on non-Muslims and Muslims alike.
Again, this is not a stunt by me to push my credentials to non-Muslims. On the contrary! My objective is to "get rid" of the problem that has bandied Islam a vile name. These blind terrorists damage Islam furthermore, and will take us along with them if they’re not stopped. If anything, the terrorists have killed more Muslims than anything else imagined. How many Muslims have died by the hand of these noble "terrorists?" In Afghanistan where Muslims were slaughtered for voting, was that Islam? Or in Iran, Pakistan or Bangladesh where women who do nothing more than show a fraction of skin are beaten to a bloody pulp----is that Islam? Is this the utopia that the Prophet (saw) laid down for us? And if not, then is it wrong to be avid and rabid in condemnation? Was it "Jihad" when those Iraqi Muslims coming out of prayer from the Shia Masjid were innocently butchered like mindless sheep? That pregnant Jewish woman and her children gunned down outside their home----was that the "right" conduct for Jihad? Did those terrorists who gunned her and her children provide evidence and justification for their actions? Nay! Nay to each and every question I postulated.
These terrorists do not suit our end. No. Their pathology, no matter how rhetorical it might sound, is territory, coercion, blood of non-Muslims (and Muslims who do not conform to their blunt perception of Islam), and 72 doe-eyed damsels awaiting them in paradise. Education, equality, assistance, dawa, dialogue, economics, rights, reason, tawhed, compassion and sabr are, of course, at the end of their long list of priorities.
I refuse...again, I refuse to give harbor to them. I can't stand them and I will not be silent on their perfidious acts of terror. If anything, those low-down, self-congratulation, self-appointing, thought-twisting, lapdog, no brain, self-loving terrorists will know they don't have a standing ovation from this Muslim. May I be swift in my vituperation, terse in my rhetoric, for Allah (swt) is my shield and my intellect is my weapon!
--Ibn