Islamic Terrorism

Being a Muslim and also that my dad got the opportunity to work abroad, I was brought up most of my life in a strict country, Saudi Arabia where I could follow my religion uninterrupted in the more undiluted and clear way. When I came down to India, for my higher studies, I was exposed to secularism and freedom of speech. One should actually feel comfortable at that but I could feel the pinch of the effect of so called open-ness of speech. And one of its big fat target was the term Islamic Terrorism in the media. The branded stamped narrow window through which most view this cult is indeed sad. The jests and mockery that even your close friends seem to use, does actually hurt.

Issues like these even extend to the point where a Muslim starts disliking his own religion, starts looking anti towards it. Islam as a religion and ideology is a staunch arch enemy of torture, oppression and terrorism though. The standard structure of the name “Islam” is derived from the Arabic word “Salm” or peace. Islam is best defined as “ Peace obtained by submitting one’s will to god.” What say, there is an entire chapter of the Holy Book Quran dedicated to tolerance as a holistic approach. Adding to its flavor, one can always find oppression towards anyone, regardless of their community seen as a blasphemy to the law of God.

Staining a whole community with the brush of blame, thanks to the media, always portrays a false impression of the religion. The constant linking of the terms “Islam” “Terrorism” “Jihad” is disturbing for a passionate Muslim. As Dr. Zakir Naik may say, there are black sheep in every community, that doesn’t make the community a negative force in the universe. Christianity cant be blamed for people like Hitler or Mussolini who put together had taken off more number of lives than all the Terrorist organizations linked to Islam.

I love my religion. I might not be an orthodox follower but I know the basic ethics that it teaches. I have found it to be clear and free in laying out laws against those presently alleged. I don’t support terrorism, I stand hand in hand with any oppressed, but I want the world to accept this from us. I want them to understand and term us and those anarchists differently. 

Media exposure to negative thoughts, horrifying pictures does create a disastrous image of the issue. It’s always the world “Muslim” that is disliked, religion “Islam” that is hated. Movies like “My Name is Khan” are surely to be applauded for the work done.

I just want to reach out and flatten things while waking the present young Muslim generation to combat terrorism with whatever they can for it’s a duty for us all.