Islam Has No Terrorism
Islam Has No Terrorism
Islam Has No Terrorism
Terrorism
Contents
Acknowledgment..............................2
Foreword...................3
I. What Bloodshed Islam Forbids6
Suicide Is Forbidden In Islam
A Case Study: A Suicide Bomber's Last Moments
To Kill a Woman or a Child Is Forbidden In Islam
Hijacking Airplanes and Kidnapping Are Crimes to Be
Punished
Destruction of Property Is Forbidden In Islam
Rebellion Against a Muslim Ruler Is Forbidden
II. Corrupt Un-Islamic Ideology of Extremist Groups 24
Misled Muslims Influenced By Marxist Revolutionary
Strategy
Why Extremist Groups Attract Followers
III. Jihad.......33
IV. Terrorism in the Name of the War on Terror...............39
Conclusion44
Footnotes .45
Glossary of Islamic Terms......46
Foreword
There is a misconception about Islam that has sadly
become very common and widespread. It has nearly reached
the level of being the "word of the day" in this post 9 11
world that we live in. This common misconception is that the
religion of Islam encourages or even worse, is based on
violence and warfare. This baseless misunderstanding of the
teachings of Islam has become very deliberate and
intentional. The term terrorism is today thrown upon anyone
the authorities in the West do not agree with especially a
Muslim. And here I propose an important question; has an
effective definition of terrorism been given to the world? One
western scholar has stated; "Terrorism involves the use of
violence by an organization other than a national government
to intimidate or frighten a target audience."1 In a way, this
definition gives legitimacy to the use of violence to
intimidate or frighten a target audience if it is done by a
government of a country. Therefore, if a state tries to
frighten, a targeted audience, by brutalizing them, then
perhaps we should then add a term to the phrase. Thus, we
can accurately describe some violence reported today as
"State Terrorism."
This widely held misconception about Islam has even
given birth to new flag words like "Islamic Terrorism." A
word never known before contemporary politics yielded it
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conclusion that one suicide bomber can wipe out five to ten
to twenty to thirty to even more of the civilian and military
population of their targeted enemies. The suicide bomber as
he views those around him has no idea who will die from his
attack and his death. There may even be some soldiers there.
However, most often theses un-Islamic attacks are
uncontrollable as to whom they will kill. There is no way to
know who will be terrified, who injured, maimed or
murdered.
The only thing that is 100% sure is the misled
bomber will certainly kill himself, will commit suicide. How
often have we heard reports where dozens of people have
been injured but only the bomber himself was actually killed?
This strategy in a since is a numeric one. A suicide bomber is
attempting to inflict greater losses upon the population that
the opposing militarily stronger force belongs to. Thus they
are bombing for numbers and not to keep their feet firm upon
the religion of Islam. Nor to keep their resistance movement
following the Quran and adhering to the Sunnah of the
Prophet Muhammad (may God's peace and blessings be upon
him).
Islam, the way of Muhammad (may God's peace and
blessings be upon him), is far far away from promoting an
attack where a Muslim warrior does not even know whom he
would be attacking; whether men, women, children, the
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his mind, like a never ending flash movie. He tries and tries
to think about something else and to focus on what he is
doing. But he can't. Face after face after face just kept
running through his mind some of them are people who had
been killed years ago. The faces always end with his little
brother Luqman.
Luqman was shot by Israeli soldiers as he was
walking home from his friend's house late one night. Saffah
remembered the last time he saw Luqman like it was
yesterday. How they laughed together while watching an
Egyptian actor in a sitcom. He was arguing with his wife
about buying her a new dress for a wedding.
Saffah also remembered six months back when shots
were fired at the funeral procession in Jenin that carried
Luqman's shrouded lifeless body to be buried. There were so
many people there family, friends, neighbors and resistance
fighters. All were enraged at the pointless death of yet
another young Palestinian at the hands of trigger happy
Israelis soldiers. They treated Palestinians as if their lives
were meaningless, worthless and to be discarded for any
small reason at any time. Saffah made a promise as he buried
his brother and saw the dirt shoveled unto Luqman's body. He
would avenge the murder of his younger brother.
When he expressed this to the men in the resistance
movement in Jenin he was encouraged. They told him, "If
you are serious and dedicated you will become a martyr."
As Saffah found a seat and sat down on the crowded
bus. He could hear some Jewish kids playing and arguing
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be upon him) described the fate for the person who has
committed suicide. I will share another Hadith (saying) of the
Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (may God's peace and
blessings be upon him) once again to strike home my point.
"We witnessed the battle of Khaibar.
God's Apostle said about one of those
who were with him and who claimed to be
a Muslim. "This man is from the dwellers
of the Hell-Fire." When the battle started,
that fellow fought so violently and bravely
that he received plenty of wounds. Some
of the people were about to doubt the
Prophet's statement, but the man, feeling
the pain of his wounds, put his hand into
his quiver and took out of it, some arrows
with which he slaughtered himself (i.e.
committed suicide). Then some men
amongst the Muslims came hurriedly and
said, "O God's Apostle! God has made
your statement true so-and-so has
committed suicide. "The Prophet said, "O
so-and-so! Get up and make an
announcement that none but a believer
will enter Paradise and that God may
support the religion with an unchaste, evil
wicked man.."7
Now on the Day of Judgment, then the deeds of
every Muslim soul will be weighed out on the scales. There it
will be God Almighty alone who will weigh and judge the
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deeds, the faith of the soul and balance them against the sins
of the soul. Here the Major sin of committing suicide as well
as the intended premeditated murder of civilians, noncombatants will all be put on the scales of the Day of
Weighing the Deeds, the Day of Accounts. For the one sin
itself of suicide a specific punishment was explained in great
detail by the Prophet Muhammad (may God's peace and
blessings be upon him). Now for someone to commit suicide
with the intention of indiscriminately killing those around
him is even much worse. As the suicide bomber does not
even known who it is who will be killed. However, it is
impossible to say specifically with total certainty what will
be the eternal fate of Saffah as an individual. This can not be
known by any human being. It is only within the knowledge
of God Almighty or what has been revealed to the Prophets
of God (may God's peace and blessings be upon them all).
There are deeds, sins in general that can be described in
regards to the punishment God promises for them in the
Quran or via the words of the Prophet Muhammad (may
God's peace and blessings be upon him).
God has revealed in the verses of the Quran His Most
Beautiful Names and the Prophet Muhammad (may God's
peace and blessings be upon him) also attributed to God
theses same names. The Prophet taught all of God's Most
Beautiful Names as was revealed to him and they are ninety
nine names for the Creator, called the Ninety Nine Most
Beautiful Names. These names all have derived from them
specific qualities or characteristics that belong to God alone
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in a perfect way. And only God Almighty knows for sure and
can tell without a doubt what will be the eternal fate of
Saffah. Look at thirteen of the names of God, to help to put
light upon why none but God knows the eternal fate of any
soul. For God alone has divinity. He has no partners and truly
God alone is:
The All-Knowing Judge
Al-Fattah
The All-Knowing
Al-Alim
The All-Hearing
As-Sami
The All-Seer
Al-Basir
Al-Khabir
Al-Hasib
Al-Raqib
The Witness
Al-Shahid
The Truth
Al-Haqq
Al-Batin
A-Shakir
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The All-Knower
Al-Allam
Al-Muhit
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relentless murder and bloodshed; as we can see in the postUS invasion of Iraq for example.
"Narrated by Abdullah and Abu Musa that,
the Prophet said (may God's peace and
blessings be upon him), "Near the
establishment of the Hour there will be
days during which Religious ignorance
will spread, knowledge will be taken away
(vanish) and there will be much Al-Harj,
and Al-Harj means killing."9
One of the most learned and a world renowned
scholar in Islam's history was Nasir Deen Al-Albaanee who
died in 1999. (May God have mercy upon his soul.) He was a
library of the wisdom of the Prophet Muhammad's
documented sayings. (May God's peace and blessings be
upon him.) Al-Albani compiled and announced a specific
legal ruling that explains that suicide bombings are illegal in
Islam and clearly against the Shariah/Islamic law. In this
legal ruling called a fatwa in the Arabic language, he stated:
"Now we come to suicide attacks this is what we
know from the Japanese and their likes when a man would
attack an American warship with his plane and he would
blow up along with his plane but he would have struck the
army that was in the American warship.
We say: Suicide attacks now, in the present time, all
of them are not legislated (in the Shariah), and all of them are
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way they seek to gain the support of Muslims who are poor
and struggling economically. Then when government policy
decides to make business partnerships or treaties with
America and Western nations, the rulers are harshly described
as shamefully bowing to Christian nations. They are
criticized as acquiescing to agreements where the wealth of
the Muslim nations is just "handed over" to the West. In this
way their philosophy is woven together. Therefore they pass
judgment on the rulers and the governments made up of their
Muslim countrymen.
This is how they open the door to waging war openly
inside a Muslim majority society. They make eloquent
declarations declaring that the government leaders who do
not implement a legal system in strict adherence to the
Shariah laws have made apostasy; that they have become
Disbelievers, Non-Muslims. Thus they begin a revolutionary
movement against the rulers and governments in Muslim
countries after they have publicly denounced them as NonMuslim rulers.
To justify the means that they use to seek to change
the government by force of arms they grossly misinterpret the
teachings of Islam. The Prophet Muhammad (may God's
peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions never
described a sinful action as totally and completely taking a
person outside of Islam except the abandonment of the
obligatory daily prayer made five times a day. The Prophet
Muhammad said (may God's peace and blessings be upon
him):
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That lie has lived on since then and has been given
new life in recent years. War or fighting, in and of
itself, in Islam is not holy. Furthermore, jihad does
not mean holy war, as it is usually incorrectly
translated to mean. The word jihad has a very
specific meaning that can only be mistranslated due
to ignorance or because of the intention to mislead
people. Jihad means to strive with great effort against
evil. The evil strived against with jihad can be in an
individual Muslim's heart. For instance, to work hard
to resist ones desires to do a sin, that is jihad. To
work hard to try to eliminate evil deeds in ones own
family, with ones wife, kids and parents is jihad. To
be watchful and seek to stop crime and danger in
ones neighborhood is jihad. To make a great effort to
fight against evil and crime in ones city, state or
homeland is jihad. Guarding a Muslim nation's
borders is also under the multi-level concept in Islam
of jihad. All of these are different aspects of the
broad concept that is jihad.
Let us take a close look at how the wide
reaching concept of jihad was taught by the Prophet
Muhammad (may God's peace and blessings be upon
him) said to his companions:
"A man said to the Prophet, "Shall I
participate in jihad?" The Prophet
said, "Are your parents living?" The
man said, "Yes." The Prophet said,
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their breath into the night air like clouds of smoke. What
chase is this you may ask?
This is the chase and the hunt for a Black man by the
Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. On horseback or on foot for
over a hundred years they have preyed, hunted and terrorized
innocent, poor, indigent and unarmed Black men and women,
who were free (or as free as they were allowed to be, but they
were no longer slaves). The Klansmen chased them, tortured
them, hung them, mutilated their murdered corpses, and
never left them alive. These American terrorists waved an
American confederate flag and hid their faces behind white
hoods. They proudly always left their mark taking
responsibility for their crimes. And what is the mark of this
contemporary American terrorist organization? Their mark is
the smoking symbol of a burning cross; all the while
justifying their deeds with quotes from the Bible. Take a look
at some of the official KKK websites and you will see
countless twisted interpretations of the verses of the Bible.
They said that they were ghosts of the confederate
soldiers bringing a message of hope and deliverance to White
Christian America! The KKK wants to keep America white
and pure. So they said....and still they say the same thing. So
then, what are they? Should we call them Christian
Terrorists? Or perhaps many a Christian may find it terribly
offensive to associate terrorism with the religion of
Christianity. The Klan used to drag the murdered corpse of
their victims through the African-American neighborhoods;
to terrorize them. This was done very intentionally, "to keep
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them in their place." And then the body would be left in front
of a specific building in the African-American neighborhood.
Where you may ask? The Klan systematically would leave
the dead corpse as if it was on display in front of the Colored
school. So the young African American school kids would
see it. It was to teach them a lesson. It was a form of
terrorism.
In the same way, now we can see that Al-Qaeda and
other extremist groups have sunk to the same depths. They
say they want to keep the lands of the Muslims, Muslim and
pure. Al-Qaeda, they are in fact like the Klu Klux Klan of the
Muslims.
So do not look at Islam and think that Islam justifies
terrorism. For no one should see Christianity as justifying the
terrorism of the KKK to lynch, torture, murder and burn.
Terrorism is not Islamic in nature or origin. Indeed, most of
America's Christians do not support or adhere to or agree
with the KKK and their misinterpretation of the Bible.
Neither do they agree with how they preach of murder and
torture of African-Americans. Also Islam does not justify
terrorism, murder or such corruption in any way, shape or
form. Furthermore, by adhering to the message of the Quran;
which is of peace, harmony and social equality; a level of
social equality is to be reached in a way and at a level that
America, my homeland has never ever seen. American has a
real problem with social equality and especially the ongoing
problems of color and racial discrimination. Their cure is to
be found in the teachings of Islam.
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V. Conclusion
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