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Everything
and every phenomenon in the world other than man is administered totally by God
made laws, i.e. they are obedient to God and submissive to his laws, they are
in the State of Islam. Meaning of Islam
is commitment to live in peace through submission to the will of Allah
and Muslim is a person who makes
an obligation to live in peace through servitude to Allah. Islam never supports
for terrorism and converting people to Islam by force or oppression is never termed
as Jihad as per Islamic teaching but a serious crime. Killing a soul is equal
to killing the whole mankind and Islam never backs for such incidents and
behavior and those who are killing innocent people for the sake of Islam and on
the name of Islam is not representing the Islam. Islam is the religion of peace
and who indulge in any set of violence is not Muslim as per Islamic law and teaching.
World media is propagating Muslims and terrorism as synonymous but it’s not
true. Media is representing the false image of Muslims to the world.
Islam
and Muslims
“Certainly,
the only acceptable way which Allah will accept is Islam.”
[Holy Qur’an 3:19]
Islam
is derived from the Arabic root “S_l_m_
i.e. Salema” meaning peace,
purity, submission and obedience to Allah.
The word Muslim is an adjective
derived from the noun Islam. The most
fundamental concept of Islam is the
oneness of God means ‘Tawheed’. To
the believer there is all sign (aayat)
of Allah. Islam asks total submission and there can be no option in the
matter because submission requires conscious and fully effort to submit to the Allah and obedience to His law.
“It
is not fitting for the believing man or the believing woman that whenever Allah
and His Messenger have decided any matter, that they should have any other
option.” [Holy Qur’an 33:36]
Islam teaches
the oneness of God and brotherhood of all races and remains tolerant and
respectful of all other religion and believes. Whatever Allah and His Messenger have set the way of Islam is incumbent on the believer (man or woman) to follow
completely.
“…and
obey Allah and His Messenger” [Holy Qur’an 3:132]
“He
who obeys the Messengers has indeed obeys Allah.” [Holy
Qur’an 4:80]
Terrorism
and Jihad
Terrorism is bigger sin than murder. Qur’an strictly
forbids murder.
“…and do not kill a soul that Allah has made sacred, save lawfully.” [Holy
Qur’an 6:151]
Here, the meaning of
‘save lawfully’ is murder is not allowed in Islam
but death penalty imposed by the government for any crime is permitted and
without any authentic reason killing anyone is equal to killing the whole
mankind.
“…who so kills a soul, unless it be for murder or for wreaking corruption
in the land, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and who saves a life,
it hall be as if he had given life to all mankind. ” [Holy Qur’an 5:53]
If
the motive of terrorism is religious like ISIS, Taliban etc. are trying to
propagate, it is impermissible in Islam
and no verse of Qur’an supports it. According to Qur’an there is no compulsion
in religion.
“There is no compulsion in religion…” [Holy Qur’an 2:256]
“You
have your religion and I have mine.” [Holy Qur’an 109:6]
People
can adopt any religion and it’s up to their will and choice. But once if you
surrender yourself to Allah follow
the path of His Messenger and be on Imaan
till die. The killing of innocent non-combatants is banned in Islam. Abu Bakar-al-Siddiq, the first
Caliph of Islam instructs his army
that ‘Do not kill women, children, the old or the sick; do not cut down fruit
bearing trees; do not destroy any town.’
Jihad is actually a Christian term meaning ‘justifiable
war’. According to Islamic teaching Jihad means ‘struggle’ and ‘strive’ against
evil thoughts and aggression against person, family, society or country. If a
so called Muslim involves in any
terror activity, media used the term ‘Islamic
Terrorism’ for such incident but there is no such phrase or term in Qur’an
or any religious book of Muslims by which such an inhuman act is justified.
Media and other people use misunderstood Jihad as ‘Holy War’ but in Islam there is no such evidence.
Actually this terminology was originated in Europe during Crusades and their
war against Muslims. Islam respects
all humans and faiths as long as there is no religious oppression, forbidding
Muslims from serving Allah.
Jihad is usually
associated Islam and Muslims, but in
fact, the concept of Jihad is found in almost all religion including
Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and political/economical ideologies such as
Capitalism, Socialism and Communism etc. Islam
is the religion of peace and harmony and didn’t support violence or terror in
any form. Islam welcomes the enemy
with open heart for the sake of peace and brotherhood.
“But if the enemies incline towards peace, do you also incline towards
peace and trust in Allah. He hears and knows all things. ” [Holy Qur’an
8:61]
The
word ‘peace’ is mentioned 58 times in Qur’an and it is one of the attributes
which Allah has named Himself in
Qur’an.
“He is Allah beside whom there is none worthy of worship, The King, The
Holy, The Peace, The Watcher, The Almighty, The Compeller, The Supreme. Glory
be to Allah, He is above all that they try to associate with Him as partners.”
[Holy Qur’an 59:23]
Islam
is essentially and basically concerned with establishing societies in which the
rights of freedom of belief, human right and protection of life, dignity and
property are secure from internal and external threats.
Media
and the World
Western and biased media is propagated Islam as ‘militant religion’ and people
take it further as ‘religion of blood, fire, sword and terrorism.’ In the
Nazis’ Holocaust against Jews which was done by Hitler and more than 60,000,000
Catholic Christian died is termed as an example of terrorism. Operation ‘Agent
Orange’ which was done by US Vietnam is not terror incident but 9/11 and
Peshawar Military attack was highlighted by act of terrorism by biased media.
After
9/11 attacks international media tend to negative depict of Islam by associating it terrorism mainly
the media houses of UK and US equated terrorism as Islam. By doing so they want to justify the war in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Syria, Palestine etc. TV news and newspaper are the most important source
of public knowledge of world events and people believes on which print and
electronic media feeds in their mind. According to Mc Quail (1995), in certain
conditions, media can help the government dealing with terror issues by giving
a negative label or name to terrorist groups and generating some panic situations
to terrorists through the information spread. Lowenthal (1989) claims that
without the collaboration of the media, terrorism would be impotent.
Terrorism is an indirect psychological strategy which
avoids direct contact with opponents. So, without media coverage terrorism
disappears. After 9/11 the terms "Muslim" and "Terrorist"
became synonymous in many western countries. Since this event, many experts and
activists in the field of human rights have warned of the escalation of Islam
phobia and racism against Muslims in many western countries.
In India, media is following the same trend as western
media. Any accident in which ‘Muslimfundamentalists’ are associated are termed
as terror attack but in which ‘Hindu fundamentalists’ are associated is not
termed as terror attack. Indian print and electronic media is totally biased in
the name of Muslim and propagate
false things. Media give negative effect on handling terrorism even though a
government does some filtrations in selecting information for neutralization
purpose.
“There is no changing to the creation of Allah. That is the right
religion, but most men know not.” [Holy Qur’an 30:30]
References
- Lowenthal, G. (1989) The Role of the Media in the Struggles Against Terrorism. In Nentanyahu, B.(ed.) International Terrorism: Challenge and Response. California: Transactions Publishers.
- Mc Quail, D. (1995) Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest. London: Sage.
- The Holy Qur’an
4. Yusof, S. A. (2013) The Framing of International Media on Islam
and Terrorism. European Science Journal. Vol.9, No,-08
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