I understand his differentiation of terrorism from religious war. Of course,
I have difficulty with the idea that Muslim nations have a right to wage war
against non Muslim nations. But I think he is correct in mnaking it clear
that terrorism has nothing to do with Jihad.
Miriam
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To: Mostafa
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Why Terrorism occurs?
Greetings Mostafa,
Once again I am in disagreement with some of your positions. In this short
note I will not attempt to restate your points, but rather, I will simply
state my personal view. Our differences will be self apparent.
I believe that each time we human beings find a difference between our
beliefs or our behavior, we use that difference to drive wedges and separate
ourselves from one another. We have used our differences throughout our
history in order to validate our own group. It then becomes necessary to
internalize these differences and believe that these differences confirm the
fact that we are right, and our ways are the correct and proper ways. So,
if the group living next door to us behaves differently, we tend to look
down on them, or to fear them if they are aggressive. Going even further,
each group invents a Supreme Being whose Word is Truth and eternal Law,
setting in concrete our beliefs, and proving without a doubt that all others
are following False Gods.
Naturally you can see the outcome. If you dare to tell me that my God, or
my ways are not the true ways or the true God, I will deny your words and if
I'm truly offended, I'll try forcing you to retract your words. War is the
word we use for such actions.
But it is really a flaw in our human nature. Despite all of our
similarities, we focus on small differences. Often these differences are
imaginary ones. We, you and I imagine that there is a God. Well, you
imagine there is a God. As an Agnostic, I question the existence of such a
Creator. I lean toward the belief that Man has Created the Creators we
worship. And so, rather than you seeing me as a good man who holds a
different view of the universe, you may feel threatened and see me as an
Evil Creature possessed of the Devil. Rather than seeing you as a man who
seeks information and truth, I might view you as a crazy Muslim, just
waiting for the opportunity to slit my throat.
Why do we seem bent upon trashing one another? Can Human Beings come to a
place where we understand that we are really One People? Can we learn to
live together with our differences, living together with all life on our
Planet Earth? Can we turn together and save this Garden of Eden before we
are turned out, cast into the Wilderness to wander in the Desert for
Eternity? Or will we each insist that our way is the true way, and war
against one another until there are no winners.
Even the little birds, the deer, the fish, all plant life will be the
losers. Planet Earth will remain, but our voices will be lost for eternity.
There is an old saying:
Pride goeth before a great fall.
Is this where Mankind is headed?
Yours,
Carl Jarvis
On 7/4/15, Mostafa <mostafa.almahdy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am sure it is a question which we all want an answerbombing attacks?
for. I am not looking for periodically perennial answers though. I am
looking for credible and convincing ones. Recently,we saw three major
terrorist attacks. One in Kuwait, another one in Tunisia and on June
the thirtieth, here in Cairo. What is the root cause of these suicidal
Some of you may recall my advice to read a book called (Dying to Win)foreign military occupation.
by Professor Robert Pape. He is a prestigious professor of Political
Science at the university of Chicago. He made a thorough research on
strategic bombing and he primarily relied on dissecting data. So on
this post, I will inshallah explore the root cause of suicidal
terrorism. The initial inciting factor that we can possibly think of is
determined about our faith.
Citation.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-root-cause-of-suicide-by-Abdus-Sa
ttar-Ghaza-101027-767.html
Despite any favouritism of either fundamentalist or secularist
ideologies, terrorism is chiefly rooted on the basis of foreign
occupation. If a territory is militarily occupied, the chances of
seeing suicidal operations erupting in the region increases one-forth.
In the subsequent segment, I shared a documended reference which
explains the philosophy of strategic suicide bombing. Here you go.
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/stille/Politics%20Fall%202007/r
eadings%20weeks%206-7/Strategic%20Logic%20of%20Suicide%20Missions.pdf
So here, we are not dealing with exercising tactics. We rather are
dealing with inciting factors of suicidal attacks. Islam is often
accused of being the major cause of instigating terrorism, violence
and brutality. Well, as Muslims we have to soberly be resolute and
Islam doesn't promote acts of terror. Islam repudiates terror. Thereproclamations.
is a vast difference between terrorism and Jihad. Terrorism is
generally defined as the calculated use of violence or the threat of
perpetrating violence against civilians in order to attain objectives
that are political, religious or ideological in nature. This is gained
through intimidation, coercion or instilling fear. However, Jihad is
generally defined as the licit act of couragiously engaging in combat
against hostilely weaponed multitude. It is strictly prohibited to
engage in fight against non-combatants or innocently defenseless
civilians. It is a denotative abomination and it directly violates
common Islamic principles for enjoining peace. Simultaneously, I never
denied the legitimately irremissible duty to defy aggression. I was
never ashamed of the prophet (salla Allahu alaihi wa
sallam) and the decisive fact that he (salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam)
fought against obstinately belligerent heathens. In consecutive
battles, he (salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) fought against armed
pagans and their allies. He stood by the truth, he (salla Allahu
alaihi wa sallam) was never timid and he (salla Allahu alaihi wa
sallam) never compeled anyone to be Muslim despite the orientally bogus
as perpetrating terrorism.
The best quote I can use here is what famous British author and
historian (Thomas Carlyle) wrote about the noble characteristics of
the prophet (salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) in his prodominant piece
of literature ('The Heroes and the Heroic Worship) for which he was
awarded a Nobel Prise. He wrote and I quote:
"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round
this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. A silent great
soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the
world, the world's Maker had ordered so".
Thence, we ought to be quite outspoken on this regard. It was never
opprobrious the fact that we have renowned battles in our history.
The western field of Orientalism attempts with a considerable aid from
(Southern Evangelical Protestantism) in the United States to
fraudulently invoke the distorted concept that early Muslims used the
sword to compel people to accept Islam. The reason they do this is to
basically invoke this idea of skeptically viewing the licit right of
defiance. We are somehow evoked to fallaciously assume the act of defiance
Certainly, the sudden appearance of something like (ISIS) helped thestructural foundation consists of leniency and severity.
western media to promote this distorted concept even further. (ISIS)
is a mistranslated term. It actually means nothing so to say. Here is
a critical transliteration of its actual acrynom. (Da'esh). (Da'ESH)
is an acrynom which stands for (The state of Iraq and Syria). In
Arabic, Syria is generically defined as (Al-sha'mm). So, this
terrorist cultus which forcefully occupys a substantial land in Iraq
and Syria is portrayed in the western media as the( Islamic State),
what a shame. It is tremendously preposterous. It is deliberately
interpolated. It is dramatically artful and counterfeit. As Muslims,
we should be quite confident about ourselves and our tenets. Our
It's combined of both clemency and stridence and each one is used inessence of this post and a subsequent segment is yet to come. Thank you for
its proper manner depending on the situation. Terrorism is
fundamentally provoked with inciting subjection and suppression. It is
a natural reaction to aggression. Despite its ideology, terrorism is
prodominantly despised and repudiated. I unambiguously condemn
terrorism and perpetrating hostile disposal. At the same time, I
won't suspend recognising Jihad. Combative Jihad is essential in
engaging into legitimate insubordination against enemies. With my
sober persistence and inshallah my unwavering perseverance, I am
sufficiently eligible to speak up and to demonstrate my steadfast
courage. I desire liberty and I adhere independent autonomy to
basically decline the terrorist unfair labeler. I am not in the
position where I have to defend myself nor to present my innocence.
Jihad is not terrorism and (
Da'ESH) is basically felonious. As Muslims, we honour and revere
ancient courageous paladins such as (Khalid ibn Al-Waleed), for
instance. He is a fame character in the field of warfare and combat
and for us as Muslims, he is a notable role model and he is worthy of
imitation. Of course, western orientalists don't want us to learn
about these characters and there was a pressure on Egypt and other
countries to permanently bann such lessons from school religion
textbooks. This is a decisively confirmed piece of information. True
Islamic Jihad is not the inciting factor for perpetrating violence. It
rather motivates what they struggle to make us lose which is courage
and the characterized stridence to defy their uninterrupted attempts
to make us submissively sabotaged. The western mass media must
instantly decease its insistence to interfere with our concepts,
thoughts and principles. With all respect, I won't ever tolerate a
western orientalist influentially imposing on me the definition of
Jihad nor the recognition of what terrorism is. Excuse me, this is
explicitly an attempt to culturally dominate us. I recognise the
scenario which is made to tactically make us timid and powerless, it
is the schemed script to gradually make us faint and discouraged. The
unilaterally proposed peace says it all and therefore, I necessarily
have to militate the situation with constantly confronting this
desecration with exhibiting the (Undying Sadat Spirit). This is purely the
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