Inside Islam: How Radicals are not Muslim and Muslims are not Radicals
Written by Fareed Warrad on April 23, 2009 – 4:21 PM -
It’s funny, if someone stole from you or your friend, you’d never again believe a word they’d say. Yet people are quick to believe a terrorist if he or she claims to be of a certain religion and that said religion made them commit the atrocities on human life. In reality though, they are impostors looking to pass their evil crimes onto others. They’ll claim this or that or the other, they’ll claim to be Christan, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, but the bottom line is, that this is ridiculous and people should know that, and not tolerate it. The truth? Those crazy people are going to kill people regardless, and they are going to also always look for a justifiable reason in their minds to do so. Human instinct is to not think of oneself as a bad person or as a murder or killer so therefore we try to play things down. This is one reason for claiming to be Muslim during or after an act of crime.
Islam's basic creed (shahadah) written on a plaque in the Great Mosque of Xi'an, China.
“I agree some people wage war in the name of religion. Most Muslims I know are peaceful! However some claim ‘Jihad’,” Jay Peroni, a friend of mine on Twitter, recently said to me in a conversation. “There are extremists in almost every religion. I don’t agree with the crazy Christians who bomb abortion clinics. But we also cannot deny that most of the terrorists are claiming they are waging a ‘jihad’ against America.”
My response? The terrorists claim that they are waging a ‘Jihad’ against America because it’s so easy to make that claim. They (the terrorists) know the relationship between the Muslim world & America is shaky, so they take advantage of that situation because they know the world will believe it. My response is not a theory, it would be the same if the Jewish world, for example, had a bad relationship with America, and the terrorists took advantage of that situation. Some Americans (and people across the world) do feel sorry for the millions of peaceful Muslims who get a bad rep for the actions of a small radical group, and Muslims do appreciate that feeling.
I’m myself is Muslim, and I was always taught peace, even if I was wronged. We were taught to forgive first, help those who wronged you second, then share the experience with the world. That’s what a TRUE Muslim is taught to do. Don’t get me wrong, there some Muslims that go astray but once they go against the grain they are no longer Muslims. Believe me, you the reader you cannot possibly begin to know how many times people have asked me why don’t all ‘good’ Muslims stand up and dispel the bad ones. It’s simple, we were taught not to judge people, we were told that is not our job to dispel or speak bad against someone else. It’s God’s job to judge, and dispel, and it is God who will banish Muslims from the religion once they go against the grain, not a Sheikh (a Muslim Priest) or any faith/political leader.
Under the rules of Islam, to be Muslim is to be completely submissive to God. The word Islam actually means submission, or total surrender of oneself to god. Yes, help your fellow man, but we cannot do God’s work, only God can. So therefore under that same Islamic rule, when the terrorists/radicals commit those heinous crimes, they are trying to do God’s work to satisfy their agenda, or their independent belief. Remember, true Muslims believe that only god can give a life and take a life. Our duty is to simply live according to the way God wishes us to live. Now isn’t that what all religions are about?
“That makes sense. I always wondering why most Muslim leaders do not address the Radical Jihadists,” Peroni said in his response to me on Twitter. “That is what they are supposed to be about – however, man can make a mess out of just about anything!”
Of course man can make a mess out of anything, but real Muslims don’t. They do everything by the book & do not try to make any changes. The radical Jihadists are fooling themselves by thinking they are Muslim and that they have a one way ticket to heaven. In fact, they are sending themselves straight into God’s Wrath. God is waiting for them and he will judge and punish them when the time is right.
So then what’s our porpoise in life if we cannot stop, judge, or dispel evil and those who commit evil acts? The answer is simple, what happens on earth is only a test. It’s merely an entry exam. Do we deserve heaven or do we deserve hell? People try to make it more than it really is. That’s the meaning of life, in the Muslim’s eye, at least. It’s an entry exam. For some, their entry exams will be short, for others it will be longer. Either Way even if someone is murdered we believe that it was their time. Muslims’ believe that nothing on this earth happens without God’s consent. Our duty as man kind is simply to continue to take the test until our name is called and we are graded. (FW)
