Is “Islamic Terrorism” really“Islamic”?

AZRA SHAHAB
4 min readJun 14, 2021

As the World is moving towards modernism and advancement, people don’t want to give up some of the disgusting backslashes of societal perspectives which seems to be very old-fashioned. People talk about being open-minded but still follow cruel societal norms.
Recent violence against a particular community Islam and Muslims are visible evidence of violating human norms. Were they really responsible for their lives? Do they really deserve it? Let me tell you this like a whole Story that seems more like a Mystery. “Terrorism”
Terrorism, bombing, firing, wars by some groups who call them followers of Muhammad and naming their job as jihad are literally not aware of what they are actually doing. People usually think they do it for the sake of religion for the sake of their god but all they are doing is politics and acquiring power in the name of a particular religion. Many of them are not aware of the fact what religion Islam really says. Just because they are calling themselves followers of Islam we are just believing them and assuming Muslims as terrorists and Islam as “Terrorism”.

Let me explain to you with an example, we all in our lives have faced or watched our loved ones facing this particular situation that is “LOVE”. A person falls in love with someone but one of them betrays the other one. Strong people CONFRONT THE PARTICULAR PERSON and usually in these days we just leave the person make him responsible for one’s miserable condition of being fallen in love with a betrayer. Now in this case the wrong person has accused not the whole big emotion of “LOVE”.We are not attacking love that we should not love anyone just because we could get betrayed. If it is really so, then people should not fall in love with anyone they shouldn’t marry, love should be discriminated against, should be banned or eradicated from this world BUT No we are not doing that because we know the person is accused who used the name of love for taking advantage of the other person.

Now, we will get to the point that Islam is not terrorism or there is no such thing as “Islamic Terrorism” why we have to name it that way? Don’t we see terrorists have no religion they are just terrorists and using a particular community to hide their real faces and naming it Jihad to hide their real Objectives?

Now let me tell you what jihad really means, I am Muslim Alhamdulillah, So I know better than those terrorists that what Islam really teaches and what it is meant to follow Muhammad. First of all, Jihad means to fight for the religion which doesn’t mean that we should kill others if they are not Muslims or accepting Islam, even it is forbidden to force someone to accept Islam, now what it really means is if someone is oppressing you for your religion or forcing you to change it then you have right to fight against it to not lose your identity and if we have right to religion than why to sew the lips? Next The prophet Muhammad who is considered as greatest men of entire history was not great just for nothing, his behavior with his enemies was as good as his behavior with his family members what he teaches is being peaceful grateful, merciful, humble, and respectful with everyone no matter what religion what caste, identity color, gender, race, region, all you need is to be a human being to get all these miraculous love and respect. Although there is no place for discrimination in Islam. those who discriminate are being cursed by god itself. So how could anyone say that there is anything like “Islamic Terrorism”.

Now, on the other hand, not all Muslims are just pure as Islam told them to be, they are not following the religion but they are following their own will and defaming a big institution.

Now, do you really think Islamic terrorism or Muslims were responsible for the violence against them just because some among their community have betrayed their own belief? No! we are responsible for naming it Islamic terrorism and associate it with a particular religion that’s why there was a war of rage between communities ad innocent lost their lives from both sides but who got benefitted are those terrorists, the depressors.

Recently in Canada Muslims were shot dead for being following their belief. Why? because of us, we call it “Islamic “.

All we need is to educate ourselves with the realm of this world what we see sometimes is really not true or it may be an illusion or a game plan to target particular groups. To save humanity we have to choose wisely talk wisely and make just decisions and try not to blame anyone without having complete knowledge about them.

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AZRA SHAHAB

Master student of Peace and Conflict studies at Jamia Millia Islamia