Beginning of twenty first century ushered an extreme hatred toward the religion of peace. A single day transformed the entire Islamic identity and placed a huge question mark on Islamic values. On 9 September 2001, when some terror group attacked the world trade centre and Pentagon house, leading to 3000 casualties. The incidence claimed to be the largest terrorist attack in history lead to severe criticism and condemnation from all over the world. Eventually U.S and its allies retaliated with ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ against Taliban and Al- Qaeda in Afghanistan and its adjacent territories, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in thousands of American air strikes. This war betrayed the hegemonic attitude of west toward the third world nations. It also made a silent declaration that the Western lives are more precious than other lives.
Fifteen years later Islam is still held to synonymous extremism and its followers are often termed as monsters whose prime purpose is to destroy the entire humanity.
In almost every part of the western world a Muslim surname fetch special attention and suspicion. A non- Muslim’s crimes are judged on individualistic parameter but if a Muslim commits the same crime, then his/her religion is blamed for the act. Media too often represents Islam as a terrorism perpetuating institution. In fact in last 15 years media has worked as an apparatus in spreading anti Islamic sentiments all over the world.
Muslims very often get trolled on social media just because of their religion. There are frequent instances of pseudo-rationale bigoted minds without any knowledge, blurting poisonous view and misinterpreting Hadith and Quranic verses.
Afghanistan, Iraq and now Syria are notable examples where U.S and its ally forces have continuously killed humanity. Despite the ongoing genocide the entire world has maintained a silence and no one has ever raised any question on the values of Christianity or Marxism.
Palestinians are continuously facing brutality and human rights violation but the superpowers are enjoying the show. Do all norms and laws apply only to Muslims and Islam? Can a few fundamentalist organizations represent an entire religion? Is it that terrorism knows just Arabic and Persian and not English and Hebrew?
The world in its hypocrisy preaches about human rights, justice and peace but is unable to bear the encumbrance of these upon itself. It persistently violates these values. But people hardly see the need to speak about western terrorism and its radical ideology.
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Khushboo Khan is a graduate from Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia
Islam in East or West Islam is the best. A worldly test for hell or paradise.
If a few maniac install anti slogans, there are millions praying at Home & in the Mosque. Even the Buckingham palace allocated a Prayer room. So let the dirty dogs bark & the Pig eat own execrate
Islam is the light, the delight of Soul capturing the Peaceful World steady though at slow speed.
A very well written article.
I agree with you. However, this sort of hostility and hatred towards Islam and Muslims have always been there. Taking a look back at the time of the last Prophet and how the revelation was received by the Meccans and others across the nation. What brutality took place and how muslims were tortured and prosecuted just for saying there is one God. And not only the last Prophet, whatever we read about the Prophets Allah sent to mankind and how their own people conspired against them shows that this is has a forever long past. And Allah made the Truth victorious every time. We can rejoice in the fact that in these sufferings and accusations which are thrown on us, we actually get to live the Sunnah of our Prophet. 🙂
The greatest truth of the modern times however is that it is almost the total radicalization of West and Westernism rather than that of Islam which has become the biggest foe of peace in every dimension of individual and organized human existence in recent times.If the magnitude of violence is made the criterion, I assure you that West at the global level and certain Hindutva elements in India will have to be condemned hundreds, even thousands of times more than Muslims. Al-Qaeda allegedly killed around 6000 people including 3000 in New York. Other terror groups may have killed at the most tens of thousands. America and its Western allies have killed at least 2 million innocent Muslims in wars against Iraq and Afghanistan and in exported insurgencies in Libya, Syria and Egypt. Do the Muslim innocents deserve lesser sympathy than Western? Are they any less human? And if we examine the role of Big Powers in the wars and civil wars in the last century, these consumed 180 million lives, an overwhelming majority being at the hands of these very big powers who claim to be the champions of peace.Radicalisation of West is visible in every single institution, every single practice and every single war or civil war the world has been witnessing in the last century. Radicalisation is a universal phenomenon these days, but it is the radicalisation of West, not Muslims, which is the biggest breeder of the global violence.
islam will triumph and capture every soul in this planet like hazrat OMAR
(ru). he went to kill Muhammad with the naked sword in hand but became the great defender of islam. so ,every body should study islam before it is too late. to day many non muslim studied islam for critisizing it,but ultimately took refuge into it and and became champion ropagating islam .example:Dr. morris buqali of france and got ultimate peace of mind and soul.these are sucessful in earth and after death. So i invite critics to study islam and then think about it.
islam will triumph and capture every soul in this planet like hazrat OMAR
(ru). he went to kill Muhammad with the naked sword in hand but became the great defender of islam. so ,every body should study islam before it is too late. to day many non muslim studied islam for critisizing it,but ultimately took refuge into it and and became champion ropagating islam .example:Dr. morris buqali of france and got ultimate peace of mind and soul.these are sucessful in earth and after death. So i invite critics to study islam and then think about it.this is not as i said before but some additions so why it will not be added to my comments.