GLORIA ONYEKWERE.
ISLAM,AND WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT TERRORISM.
Unfortunately more and more and more often, Islam has been associated with terrorism and
Violence due to the action of few extreme individual who have taken it upon themselves to do the most heinous crimes in the name of Islam. However my question is Islam religion of works or faith .having live most of my young live with Muslim, this are people who practiced the religion of Islam. According to Islam dying in jihad is a great honor, and it is the only way a Muslims is guaranteed of going to paradise. Maybe that is why we see Muslims leaving their own nation to fight jihad in other in other countries. Their motivation is religious, which is much more dangerous than a political motivation. when we take a deep look into the word’ jihad’, then we start to see that jihad is the motivation in many act of terrorism done in the name of Islam. When we take a deep look how the Islamic religion spread we can see that violence was ubiquitous part of the part of the culture at the time and this type of religious conquest fits easily into the regional character. There are at least 114 verses in Quran that speak of love, peace, and forgiveness (the heifer surah 2;62, 109).but when surad 9;5 was revealed later it cancelled out those previous verses. This surah or chapter in Quran was later label sword. And it explained that Muslims should and must fight anyone who chooses not to convert to Islam.whether they are inside Arabia or outside.
If Islam is a religion of peace while are the killing on Muslims practicing the faith for example the in 2014 December in Afghanistan 12 people were gunned down by Taliban for try to clear area of mines. This is just I example of over 30 incidence of killing by different terrorist groups.
To better understand modern international terrorism, the creation of state of Israel was seen as a threat throughout Arabia and Islam world. This region saw this as the perfect time to initiate revolutionary movement. Perceived in their view that terrorism could be effective in reaching political goals. With this movement and the indoctrination that comes with, the mosque became a place of indoctrination, and spread of radical ideology. At the early stage, groups focus on material damage and limited attack aimed at killing individual, at the second phase, it became urban base attacks, with change in mythology. Civilians attack rises; this becomes formative period as proliferation of weapon use, and emergence of militant fundamentalist Islam.
In the 60s Palestinian secular movement such as AL FATAH and THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE began to target civilian outside the immediate conflict area.
While Palestine dominate the scene during the 1970. Religious movement also continues to grow. Failure of Arab nationalism in 60s war, resulted in strengthening of both progressive and extremist Islamic movement. In a country where there is no government, no social welfare and education. so terrorist took over the vacuum created.