This is assoicated with the article 'I am not against Islam, but Islamic extremism' Friday 3 September 2010.
Born as a Muslim raised as a Muslim and I share my birthday with the 09/11 attacks….the only difference is the attack occurred in 2001 and my mother gave birth to me in 1984.…maybe that makes me an Islamic extremist too. Islam equals mercy serenity, peace not violence.
People link Terrorism with Islam, yet not knowing anything about the religion Islam. Islam forbids violence, suicidal and crime. As a Muslim we believe in Allah ( God) and the purpose of life is to worship Allah that is one and incomparable and by following the five pillars 1) Faith | 2) Prayer 3) The 'Zakat' 4) The Fast | 5) Pilgrimage (Hajj).
The Quran forbids terrorism completely and forbids for deliberately killing any innocent human. The ones that do follow this are classified as false Muslims, Hence, the extremists are not Muslims, they should be called non Muslims that are born as Muslims, yet not raised as a Muslim.
Therefore, extremists should be used as a single word, but not used with religion Islam. I do not see the USA or UK fighting against Allah nor fighting against Islam. Theses two countries fight against only terror.
Comments
Salaams,
welcome to the site.
You mention that this is realted to a specific article... can we hve a link to that article? It may give your blog more context.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
w/s i just remeber reading it in the guardian paper few weeks back
ok, thanks.
As for the topic, unfortunately, I think the cat is out of the bag. It would be nice if that was not the case, but its something to live with.
Makes some things more dificult and creates some antagonism, but its not something that can be changed.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.