By Aziz A. Mubaraki,
If by any means spilling Muslim blood is the deciding factor for Muslims to decide who the community should take vengeance against, then these dissemblers i.e., ISIS, Al Qaeda or geographically more closer, the Talibans, should immediately go into hiding as these organizations have been butchering Muslims for years now.
They wish to mentally take possession of Muslims, but faces a wall of neutrality, resentment even opposition from the community. And so by indulging into cruel activities (like beheading captives, burning them alive, a 9/11 or even a 26/11) they crave to get non-Muslims to be unkind towards Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims. It can start creating a common political identity around accusation against discrimination that may not only make their recruitment drive easier, but may also help accumulate funds more smoothly.
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And If we study the actions of these horrendous organizations closely, we shall know that the people killed by Al Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban had only 12% non-Muslims as victims! That majorly suggests, these felonious have killed seven times more Muslims (be it Shia or Sunni) than non-Muslims. Therefore the fact is that neither of these “Beelzebub” is fighting for the cause of Islam or Muslims as they proclaim and publicize it to be; Frankly speaking they are not about the concept of “submit to Islam or die,” but “Submit to ISIS/al Qaeda/Taliban or die”, and in the process they hardly care how many lives they take and it hardly matter if the victims are Muslims. Yet they claim they are carrying out their actions in the name of Islam!
In fact soon after Charlie Hebdo’s Attack in Paris one Al-Ansi through a video message claimed that the terrorist brothers who carried out the attack on the officers were “two heroes of Islam.” He couldn’t be more wrong! But that isn’t to say there weren’t heroes of Islam in Paris that day; it’s just that they are two quite different people. Ahmed Merabet the French police officer who exchanged fire, later shot in cold blood and Lassana Bathily, the Muslim employee at the kosher deli in Paris who saved the lives of seven Jews were certainly the “Two Heroes of Islam”. In fact Bathily’s actions illustrate the famous verse no 32nd of chapter 5 (Sūrat l-Māidah) from Holy Quran, “that whoever kills a soul it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.”
But merely calling out the two-facedness of such malicious crooks won’t change these organizations’ goals, as they shall continue to mention Islam as cover for their covetous ambitions, as it helps them inveigle new recruits and raise funds which are essential for their unrelenting survival and Lucullan life-style.
Perhaps, if their duplicity & insincerity is consistently laid exposed, then it might help all understand the true impetus of these terrorist outfits ,which have absolutely nothing to do with Islam, they are more of an extortionists vying for power & riches.
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(Aziz A. Mubaraki, Member, Advisory Committee, Airport Authority of India (NSC), Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India)