Terrorist Attacks and Islam

Terrorist Attacks and Islam

Terrorists

A terrorist is someone who causes terror against certain people, based on religious hate, or discrimination based on nationality. Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor in the 18th century, waged a war against all non-Muslims, to force conversion into Islam. In the beginning of the 19th century however, the empire was defeated, and what remained of the Mughal Empire, now became the Sikh empire, under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Hugh Barlow, the author of “Dead for God,” outlines multiple religions, such as Sikhism, struggling against forced conversion to Islam. In this published novel, Barlow uses the term Jihad, to reflect “holy war”;

“Over the next twenty-five years the spirit of Jihad continued to glow in pockets of resistance against British occupiers, and the Sikhs were eventually drawn into the conflict in a big way.”

Since the largest attack on US soil, due to this Jihad movement, there have been many terrorist attacks across the globe. The assumption we have on this is that these are horrible, evil people. When in reality, they are young Islamic men, taught to fight for this religious belief. It is a sad, and scary, realization when we look deeper into their causes and demands. It is their belief, that Islam will conquer all, and any who appose it will be killed. This is why there are so many terrorist attacks on innocent people throughout the world. No one is safe from this malicious cause, and unless the rest of the world takes a stand to stop it, it will continue to terrorize our children, and us for years to come.

Having the reputation of being fearless soldiers, and interpreting the different translations of the Qur’an, Muslims have come to believe that dying in the name of God is what the Prophet Muhammad would have liked. However; the Jordanian scholar Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi considers the post-September 11th interpretation of Jihad as a “rave violation of God’s absolute unity”. Al-Maqdisi has written many books that denounce leaders of the Arab world for there adherence to laws made by man, rather than abiding to Islamic Law, known as Sharia Law. To Protect Jihad, you mustn’t harm the term Jihad, al-Maqdisi states that Jihadist never attack with long term plans, yet use random violent attacks, to harm non-believers. Although the attacks are random, al-Maqdisi says that Muslim terror attacks are well planned and thought out, but they don’t follow the turmoil they cause, such as they kill the leader, but don’t take the leadership. Al-Maqdisi’s emphasis on knowledge, and learning the truth about Islam, is clear throughout his various books that he has written. But unfortunately western civilization is scared. Al-Maqdisi writes that many Jihadists are, “in love with explosive operations”, but what Jihadist really should be doing, is only use