Political Islam
The biggest threat facing the world today is Islamic terrorism. It is flourishing because the world at large is not ready to face the truth that Islam, alone among all the religions of the world, is political in nature. The Islamic enterprise is incomplete till it has subjugated the whole world to the rule of the ‘UM’, that is, till the whole world comes to be ruled by an Islamic government, with the Shariat as the constitution.
A concerted educational effort should get underway to educate the world to the danger of Islam taking cover of a religion to fulfil its political ambition. This is the same education that Christianity went through to separate the political Church from Christianity proper, giving rise to the concept of secularism.
Instead of undertaking this basic venture to secularise Islam, mere bombarding of Muslims in the name of terrorism will only be hitting at the branches. Islamic terrorism will not be uprooted till project secularism to expose Islam’s political ambition is underway.
The biggest threat facing the world today is Islamic terrorism. It is flourishing because the world at large is not ready to face the truth that Islam, alone among all the religions of the world, is political in nature. The Islamic enterprise is incomplete till it has subjugated the whole world to the rule of the ‘UM’, that is, till the whole world comes to be ruled by an Islamic government, with the Shariat as the constitution.
A concerted educational effort should get underway to educate the world to the danger of Islam taking cover of a religion to fulfil its political ambition. This is the same education that Christianity went through to separate the political Church from Christianity proper, giving rise to the concept of secularism.
Instead of undertaking this basic venture to secularise Islam, mere bombarding of Muslims in the name of terrorism will only be hitting at the branches. Islamic terrorism will not be uprooted till project secularism to expose Islam’s political ambition is underway.
In the light of growing ‘Islamic terrorism’ world-wide, there is anguish amongst Muslims that terrorism involving Muslims are labelled as Islamic terrorism, thereby suggesting that such terrorism is religious in nature. They can see clearly that all terrorisms extant in the world today are political in nature, due to some group or the other carrying notions of being given a raw deal by the powers-that-be. The Muslims are right here. Actually, blaming Muslims for behaving the way they do is unfair because they are human and they only behave the way all humans are wont to do. Why, are’t LTTE, Naxalites, ULFA, Khalistanis all called terrorist groupings and aren't they non-Muslim? The Naxalites or ULFA, for instance, are all Hindus. Can they therefore be said to be indulging in Hindu terrorism?
Having said that Muslims are just like the others, we ought to also consider the Quran. The Quran, like other scriptures, is a document of dead letters till it is brought to life by its adherents suitably interpreting it. We must realise that there is no end to the interpretations we can have of any scripture. Why, aren’t there many schools in Islam and why so? Because each school chooses to interpret at least some aspects of the Quran in its own way.
Thus, we come to the question -where lies the blame for Islam, particularly, being associated with terrorism? The answer, of course, lies in the way the Quran is chosen to be interpreted by recoginised leaders who interpret it. For instance, while Jehad is interpreted as something about fighting wars within our own selves to overcome the debilitating weaknesses in us, many Mullahs and Maulanas interpret it as a political duty to reek vengence upon their political enemies and so on and so forth.
Therefore the solution to wriggling off the tag of terrorism attached to Islam is to have a fresh breed of Mullahs and Maulanas who interpret the Quran spiritually and not politically. Then Islam will be seen in the Sufi light and its teachings will truly bring peace upon the world at large.
Having said that Muslims are just like the others, we ought to also consider the Quran. The Quran, like other scriptures, is a document of dead letters till it is brought to life by its adherents suitably interpreting it. We must realise that there is no end to the interpretations we can have of any scripture. Why, aren’t there many schools in Islam and why so? Because each school chooses to interpret at least some aspects of the Quran in its own way.
Thus, we come to the question -where lies the blame for Islam, particularly, being associated with terrorism? The answer, of course, lies in the way the Quran is chosen to be interpreted by recoginised leaders who interpret it. For instance, while Jehad is interpreted as something about fighting wars within our own selves to overcome the debilitating weaknesses in us, many Mullahs and Maulanas interpret it as a political duty to reek vengence upon their political enemies and so on and so forth.
Therefore the solution to wriggling off the tag of terrorism attached to Islam is to have a fresh breed of Mullahs and Maulanas who interpret the Quran spiritually and not politically. Then Islam will be seen in the Sufi light and its teachings will truly bring peace upon the world at large.
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