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This question arises in the minds of the people, during any discussion on religion
or world affairs. Muslim stereotypes are perpetuated in every form of the media
accompanied by gross misinformation about Islam and Muslims. In fact, such
misinformation and false propaganda often leads to discrimination and acts of
violence against Muslims.
Oxford Dictionary describes the word terrorism as: 'the use of violent actions in
order to achieve political aims or to force a government to act.' The word
terrorism was first coined in 1790's during the French Revolution. The years
1793 and 1794 were called as 'The Reign of Terror' or 'Years of Terror.'
After World War II from 1941 to 1948, the Jewish Terrorists conducted 259
terrorist attacks.
22 July 1946 – The famous bombing of King David Hotel was conducted under the
leadership of Menachem Begin. 91 were killed, out of which 28 were British, 41
Arabs, 17 Jews and 5 others. The Ignun group dressed up as Arabs to show as
though the Muslims did this bombing. Menachem Begin was called terrorist
number one by the British government. Later on after a few years Menachem
Begin the terrorist number one became the Prime Minister of Israel & got a
Noble Prize for Peace. Imagine a person who was a terrorist number getting a
Noble Prize for Peace. Menachem Begin and others were fighting to get a Jewish
state. Before 1945 Israel did not exist in the World Map. These Jewish group
were fighting for a Jewish state and later on with the power they kick the
Palestinian out and now the same people are calling the same Palestinian who
are fighting for a more just cause for getting their land back. And the Israelis
label them today as Terrorist.
Hitler killed 6 million Jews. The Palestinians welcome the Jews. Later on the Jews
kick the Palestinians out of their own land and when the Palestinians are
fighting to get their land back they are labeled as Terrorists. It is like I welcome
a stranger in my house. After a few days that person throws me out of my house
and when I shout out side my house that I want my house back, you call me a
Terrorist.
In Germany from 1968 – 1992, Baader Meinhoff Gang killed several innocent
human beings.
In Italy, Red Brigades kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, the former Prime Minister
of Italy.
20 March 1995 - Aum Shinrikyo a Buddhist Cult used Nerve Gas in the Tokyo
Subway in which 12 people were killed and 5700 were wounded and injured.
IRA (The Irish Republican Army)
In Sri Lanka, the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) is the most notorious. It
is the most violent terrorist organisation in the world. They are experts in
suicide bombings and they even train children to take part in suicide bombings.
In India majority of the terrorist attacks are talked about the Kashmiri militants.
In India there are terrorist organization belonging to almost all different
religions. We have Sikh terrorist, the 'Bhindranwala' in Punjab. If you go to
South Asian Terrorism portal run by Non-Muslims, and if you see the list of
terrorist attacks done by all the people, you will find the Muslims in a minority.
But that is never highlighted in the media.
On 5 June, 1984, the Indian Security Forces took over the Golden Temple in
which 100 people were killed. In retaliation on 31 October, 1984, Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh security guard. In Tripura there are
Christian terrorist organizations called ATTF (All Tripura Tiger Force) and NLFT
(National Liberation Front of Tripura). On the 2 October, 44 Hindus were killed
by these Christian terrorists.
In Assam we have ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam). ULFA in the 16 years
from 1990 to 2006 has conducted successfully 749 confirmed terrorist attacks.
The ULFA will put the Kashmiri militants to shame. But in the newspapers we
only hear of Kashmiri militant. Why? The ULFA are trained to kill the Muslims,
they are Hindus. How many times do we hear about them?
The maximum terrorist attacks, which have been done in India, are done by the
Maoists. Only in Nepal, in the past 7 years they have conducted 99 terrorist
attacks. According to the Indian Government out of 600 districts in India Maoists
are present in 150 districts of India. They have done terrorist attacks in one-
third part of India. The Maoists are the biggest dangers to India but yet the
Indian Government is afraid of the Muslim terrorist. Why? The reason is George
Bush. The Times of India, edition dated 9 September, 2006, reported that 875
rockets and 30 launchers were confiscated by the police. It is the biggest haul in
the history of India that the government has confiscated.
From all these things we can surely say that Terrorism is not a Muslim Monopoly.
Not a Muslim monopoly, it is not even a specialty of the Muslims. It is not even
encouraged by Islam. The Holy Qur'an says in Sura Maidah, chp.5, verse.32, that
"If anyone kills any human being, except as a punishment for murder or creating
mischief in the land, it will as though he had killed the entire humanity". Most of
the religions don't preach that you should kill innocent human being. Terrorism
is not the monopoly of any religion.
The human being who has killed the maximum people is Adolf Hitler. Hitler
incinerated 6 million Jews. He was Christian. Joseph Stalin (Uncle Joe) killed 20
million human beings; including 14.5 million were starved to death. Mao Tse
Tsung of China killed 14 to 20 million human beings. He was Non Muslim. Benito
Mussolini of Italy killed 400,000 human beings. Maximilin Robespierre during the
French revolution starved and tortured 200,000 people to death and executed
40,000 people. Ashoka in one battle of Kalinga alone killed more than 100,000
people. He was a Hindu. Saddam Hussein killed a few 100 thousands people. But
the embargo put by George Bush and the USA alone killed more than half a
million Iraqi children. In Indonesia, Muhammad Suharto killed 500,000 people.
This is nothing compared to Hitler or uncle Joe nothing compare to Mao TSE sung
each individual will put the Muslims to shame. I am not trying to say that these
individual they were religious. If they would have religious then they would not
have committed such acts. But yet we find in the international media that the
Muslims are called as fundamentalist, extremists and terrorists. The American
Revolution took place in the 19th century. According to the British Government
the terrorist No. 1 that time was Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
The President of Venezuela, 'Hugo Chavez' says, 'The biggest terrorist in the
world is George bush'.
The President Elect of Bolivia, 'Evo Morales', he says that George Bush is a
terrorist.
Famous singer and activist of America, Harry Bellefonte says that the biggest
terrorist in the world is George Bush.
An MP in UK by the name of George Galloway he said, 'The blood that is on the
hands of George Bush and Tony Blair is much more than the bombers who have
done bombing in London. It will be justified that a suicide bomber goes and kill
Tony Blair without injuring any other human being. This is type of suicide
bombing will be justified'.
Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, Jyoti Basu said, 'The biggest terrorist in
the world is George Bush'.
Noble prize winner for Peace, Betty Williams said, 'I would love to kill George
Bush'.
Solution to terrorism
Politicians should be honest and just and should not do wrong things for the
vote bank.
Innocent Indian citizens should not be instigated by the politicians and kill other
human beings. Police should be upright and just and protect the innocent. They
should not be ploy of the politicians. I know that there are times that they can
be transferred. But if every policeman in India is honest, the new policemen who
are transferred will also be honest. So what will the politicians do?
People should not take the law in their hand and kill other human being.
Mahatma Gandhi said, " If India has to improve it should be ruled by a dictator as
honest and upright as Hadrat Umar (The Caliph of Islam). Dr. Joseph Adam
Pearson said, 'People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the
hands of the Arabs, they fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has already been
dropped, it fell the day Prophet MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born'.