Who Are The Terrorists?

Today we witness terrorism spreading all over the world. Many unjust treatments and cruel oppressions occur in every corner. So many helpless and innocent people are suffering and have become victims. When seeing all these evil deeds, it is normal that we condemn the criminals whoever they are, whether they pretend to be Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists or even irreligious. However, it is ridiculous to link Islam or any other religion to terrorism.

A group of criminals have proclaimed themselves as an “Islamic State” in an area in Iraq and Syria. This group managed to attract thousands of blinded minds from the Muslim youth. They are financed and equipped with arms by some foreign powers with the purpose of creating disorder in the world political fighting arena. According to Corbett Report: “All of the military action that’s going on is foreign supplied, foreign-backed, foreign-trained, foreign-armed, foreign-equipped (with) foreign money greasing the skids of this war” (see: Website fktv.is). The report even said that many ISIS fighters were trained in Jordan (of course by a big power) couple of years ago, through a then-covert operation. And this disorder, which is spreading in the world, today, is certainly what has been predicted and named “creative chaos” by Condoleezza Rice while she was the Secretary of State of the USA.

Most world media, however, focus only on the so-called “islamists”, “jihadists”, “ISIS”, ignoring the cruelty of the tyrants in Syria (Assad’s regime and its allies: The Russian invader and the militias brought by Iran from Iraq and Lebanon), who have devastated half of the country and are still continuing, causing the fleeing of eleven million from their homes. World media ignore the Tyrant of Egypt, who has killed thousands and tortured tens of thousands in prisons and caused thousands to flee from the country. World media do not accuse Israel to be a terrorist state, although it is killing Palestinians continuously and treats them inhumanly and expulse many of them from their homes, etc. Big powers support this violence to make their arms factories flourish and to multiply their sales. And although propagating democracy, those Big Powers support tyrants in many countries, even though the latter treat people inhumanly.

As a Muslim I admit that some people among the Muslims (whether a tyrant, or ignorant, or poor and helpless, or narrow-minded) are trapped and exploited and in connivance with the big tyrants and the big wicked-politicians from different countries whatever religion they belong to. But it is unfair that many world media accuse Islam to be the origin of this chaos and the damages caused by criminals, while Islam condemns rigorously violence and all wrongdoings.

The Qur’an warns people: “And do not think that God is unaware of what the evildoers are doing. He but gives them respite until a day when eyes shall stare (wide-open) in horror (in the Hereafter), as they come hastening with their heads turned upwards, their gaze returning unable to look away from what they shall behold; and their hearts shall be hollow” (14:42-43).

Islam forbids people to do anything, which may hurt or aggravate others, and whatever small the damage caused by a person he will be responsible for it in the Hereafter and will be requited accordingly.