Are Muslims terrorists?
It is very inauspicious that nowadays, Islam has become synonymous with 'Terrorism'. Far from promoting terrorism, Islam is a religion of peace whose basic principles teach its followers to maintain and encourage peace and justice throughout the world. Islam doesn't condone 'terrorism' as defined and comprehended nowadays: plane hijackings, hostage takings and the torturing and killing of the impeccant in order to achieve political and/or religious goals. This is not how Islam instructs Muslims to solve their problems, achieve their goals, or to distribute their religion.The question that should be published instead is: Do the teachings of Islam promote terrorism? Certainly not, Islam completely prohibits all terrorist acts. It ought to be remembered that all religions have elements of misguided followers. To be impartial and simply, one must consider the teachings of the religious beliefs, as they are the yardstick by which the actions of their adherents can be assessed as being right or wrong.
It is totally unfair to judge Islam by the wrongdoers of some misguided or ignorant Muslims, or by the going down hill condition of Muslims and the blatant corruption that pervades the Muslim worldwide. In fact, What Islam preaches is one thing and what some Muslims in today's world practice is something completely another.
The only way we can do justice to Islam is to discover about its noble teachings, which have been clearly set out in the Glorious Quran and Blessed Prophetic ways of life.
Islam is a religion of peace, and that is acquired by submitting ones will to the will of the supreme Creator, Almighty Allah.
Islam promotes peace but simultaneously, it exhorts its followers to fight oppressiveness. The fight against oppression may, at circumstances, require the use of force, and in some cases force has to be used to help maintain peace. Certainly, Islamic Law allows war under specific circumstances. Any religion or civilization which doesn't do that, would never survive.
But Islam never condones assaults against innocent people, women or children. Islam also obviously forbids' taking the law into Ono's own hands', which means that that individual Muslims cannot go around deciding what they would like to do by killing or punishing. Trail and punishment must simply be carried out by a lawful authority as well as a qualified judge.
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