Dr Zakir Naik
This question arises
in the minds of the people, during any discussion on religion or world affairs.
Muslim stereotypes are perpetuated in every form of the media accompanied by
gross misinformation about Islam and Muslims. In fact, such misinformation and
false propaganda often leads to discrimination and acts of violence against
Muslims.
Oxford Dictionary
describes the word terrorism as: ‘the use of violent actions in order to
achieve political aims or to force a government to act.’ The word terrorism was
first coined in 1790′s during the French Revolution. The years 1793 and 1794
were called as ‘The Reign of Terror’ or ‘Years of Terror.’
During these years
Maximilin Robespierre guillotined thousands of innocents. He arrested more than
500,000 out of which he executed 40,000. More than 200,000 were deported and
more than 200,000 were starved and tortured to death in the prisons.Today there
is a statement, which is being repeatedly bombarded, especially in the western
media and that statement is, ‘All Muslims are not Terrorist, but all Terrorist
are Muslims.’ But here are the historical records on terrorist attacks that
speak a different picture:19th century – We hardly find any terrorist attacks
done by Muslims.
§ 1881 – Tsar Alexander was assassinated in a
Bomb Blast. He was traveling in a bulletproof carriage in St. Pietersburg Street.
The first bomb kills innocent 21 bystanders. The second bomb killed him while
he was stepping out of the car. He was killed by Ignacy Hryniewiecki. He was
Anarchists.
§ 1886 – Bomb Blast at Haymarket Square,
Chicago, during a labour rally. 12 people were killed; one among them was a
policeman. Seven policemen were injured and they died in the hospital. The
people responsible were 8 Anarchists all of them were non-Muslims.
§ 6 September 1901 – The US President, William
McKinley, was shot twice by an Anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. He was a
non-Muslim.
§ 1 October 1910 – Bomb blast in Los Angeles at
Times newspaper building. 21 were killed. The blast was done by 2 Christians
named James and Joseph. They were union leaders.
§ 28 June 1914 – Archduke of Austria and his
wife were assassinated which precipitated the World War I. The members of Young
Bosnia assassinated them – most of them were Serbs. They were non-Muslims.
§ 16 April 1925 – Bomb Blast in St. Nedelya
Church in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. 10,050 were killed and 500 injured.
This was the biggest terrorist attack that was done on the soil of Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian Communist Party did it. They were non-Muslims.
§ 9 October 1934 – King Alexander I of
Yugoslavia was assassinated by a gunman by the name of Vlada Georgieff. He was
a non-Muslim.
§ 1 May 1961 – First US plane to be hijacked was
not done by a Muslim. It was done by Ramierez Ortiz.
§ 28 August 1968 – The US Ambassador to
Guatemala was assassinated by a non-Muslim.
§ 30 July 1969 – The US Ambassador to Japan was
knifed by a Japanese non-Muslim.
§ 3 September 1969 – US Ambassador to Brazil was
kidnapped by a non-Muslim.
§ 19 April 1995 – The famous attack of the
Oklahoma Bombing in which a truck loaded with bombs ran into the
federal building of Oklahoma, in which 166 were killed and 100 were
injured. Initially in the press it came as ‘Middle East Conspiracy’. Later on
they came to know that it was done by two Christians named Timothy and Terry.
After World War II
§ After World War II from 1941 to 1948, the
Jewish Terrorists conducted 259 terrorist attacks.
§ 22 July 1946 – The famous bombing of King
David Hotel was conducted under the leadership of Menachem Begin. 91 were
killed, out of which 28 were British, 41 Arabs, 17 Jews and 5 others. The Ignun
group dressed up as Arabs to show as though the Muslims did this bombing.
Menachem Begin was called terrorist number one by the British government. Later
on after a few years Menachem Begin the terrorist number one became the Prime
Minister of Israel & got a Noble Prize for Peace. Imagine a person who was
a terrorist number getting a Noble Prize for Peace. Menachem Begin and
others were fighting to get a Jewish state. Before 1945 Israel did not exist in
the World Map. These Jewish group were fighting for a Jewish state and later on
with the power they kick the Palestinian out and now the same people are
calling the same Palestinian who are fighting for a more just cause for getting
their land back. And the Israelis label them today as Terrorist.
§ Hitler killed 6 million Jews. The Palestinians
welcome the Jews. Later on the Jews kick the Palestinians out of their own land
and when the Palestinians are fighting to get their land back they are labeled
as Terrorists. It is like I welcome a stranger in my house. After a few days
that person throws me out of my house and when I shout out side my house that I
want my house back, you call me a Terrorist.
§ In Germany from 1968 – 1992, Baader Meinhoff
Gang killed several innocent human beings.
§ In Italy, Red Brigades kidnapped and killed
Aldo Moro, the former Prime Minister of Italy.
§ 20 March 1995 – Aum Shinrikyo a Buddhist Cult
used Nerve Gas in the Tokyo Subway in which 12 people were killed and 5700 were
wounded and injured.
IRA (The Irish
Republican Army)
§ In UK since hundred years IRA (The Irish
Republican Army) is conducting Terrorist attacks against UK. They are
Catholics. But are never called as Catholic Terrorist. In 1972 IRA conducted 3
bomb blasts. In the first blast 7 were killed, in second blast 11 were killed
and in the third 9 were killed.
§ In 1974 IRA conducted two bomb blasts. First
at Guildford Pub in which 5 were killed and 44 injured; second at the
Birmingham Pub which killed 21 and injured 182.
§ In 1996 IRA conducted bomb blast in London in
which 2 persons were killed and more than were 100 injured. In the same year
IRA conducted bomb blast in Manchester shopping center in which 206 people were
injured.
§ On 1 August, 1998, the ‘Banbridge’ bomb blast
took place. The IRA planted 500 pound of bomb, which was loaded in a car where
35 people were injured.
§ On 15 August, 1998, ‘Omagh’ bomb blast took
place. IRA planted 500 pound of bomb in a car where 29 people were killed and
330 injured.
§ On the 4 March, 2001, the BBC was bombed by
IRA.
§ The IRA is never called as Catholic Terrorist.
Today the UK government is more afraid of Muslim terrorist. Today Tony Blair is
more afraid of the ‘Muslim terrorists’ than IRA who is conducting terrorist
attacks for more than a hundred years. Why?
In Spain and France
ETA conducted 36 terrorist attacks. In Africa there are many terrorist
organisations. But the most notorious is the ‘Lord’s Salvation Army’; a
Christian terrorist organisation in Uganda. They train young children to commit
terrorist attacks.
In Sri Lanka,
the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam) is the most
notorious. It is the most violent terrorist organisation in the world. They are
experts in suicide bombings and they even train children to take part in
suicide bombings.
Normally people know
Palestinian suicide bombings, Iranian suicide bombing, but they don’t know that
LTTE are people who have popularized to suicide bombings. The LTTE i.e. Tamil
tigers, they are Hindus.
In India majority of
the terrorist attacks are talked about the Kashmiri militants. In India there
are terrorist organization belonging to almost all different religions. We have
Sikh terrorist, the ‘Bhindranwala’ in Punjab. If you go to South Asian
Terrorism portal run by Non-Muslims, and if you see the list of terrorist
attacks done by all the people, you will find the Muslims in a minority. But
that is never highlighted in the media.
On 5 June, 1984, the
Indian Security Forces took over the Golden Temple in which 100 people were
killed. In retaliation on 31 October, 1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was
assassinated by her Sikh security guard. In Tripura there are Christian
terrorist organizations called ATTF (All Tripura Tiger Force) and NLFT
(National Liberation Front of Tripura). On the 2 October, 44 Hindus were
killed by these Christian terrorists.
In Assam we have ULFA
(United Liberation Front of Assam). ULFA in the 16 years from 1990 to 2006
has conducted successfully 749 confirmed terrorist attacks. The ULFA will put
the Kashmiri militants to shame. But in the newspapers we only hear of Kashmiri
militant. Why? The ULFA are trained to kill the Muslims, they are Hindus. How
many times do we hear about them?The maximum terrorist attacks, which have been
done in India, are done by the Maoists. Only in Nepal, in the past 7 years they
have conducted 99 terrorist attacks. According to the Indian Government out of
600 districts in India Maoists are present in 150 districts of India. They have
done terrorist attacks in one-third part of India. The Maoists are the biggest
dangers to India but yet the Indian Government is afraid of the Muslim
terrorist. Why? The Times of India, edition dated 9 September, 2006, reported
that 875 rockets and 30 launchers were confiscated by the police. It is the
biggest haul in the history of India that the government has confiscated.
From all these things
we can surely say that Terrorism is not a Muslim Monopoly. Not a Muslim
monopoly, it is not even a specialty of the Muslims. It is not even encouraged
by Islam. The Holy Qur’an says in Sura Maidah, chp.5, verse.32, that “If anyone
kills any human being, except as a punishment for murder or creating mischief
in the land, it will as though he had killed the entire humanity”. Most of the
religions don’t preach that you should kill innocent human being. Terrorism is
not the monopoly of any religion.
The human being who
has killed the maximum people is Adolf Hitler. Hitler incinerated 6
million Jews. He was Christian. Joseph Stalin (Uncle Joe)
killed 20 million human beings; including 14.5 million were starved to death.
Mao Tse Tsung of China killed 14 to 20 million human beings. He was Non
Muslim. Benito Mussolini of Italy killed 400,000 human beings.
Maximilin Robespierre during the French revolution starved and tortured 200,000
people to death and executed 40,000 people. Ashoka in one battle of
Kalinga alone killed more than 100,000 people. He was a Hindu.
Saddam Hussein killed
a few 100 thousands people. But the embargo put by George Bush and
the USA alone killed more than half a million Iraqi children. In Indonesia,
Muhammad Suharto killed 500,000 people.
This is nothing
compared to Hitler or uncle Joe nothing compare to Mao TSE sung each individual
will put the Muslims to shame. I am not trying to say that these individual
they were religious. If they would have religious then they would not have
committed such acts. But yet we find in the international media that the
Muslims are called as fundamentalist, extremists and terrorists. The American
Revolution took place in the 19th century. According to the British Government
the terrorist No. 1 that time was Benjamin Franklin and George
Washington.
Solution to terrorism
§ Politicians should be honest and just and
should not do wrong things for the vote bank.
§ Innocent Indian citizens should not be
instigated by the politicians and kill other human beings. Police should be
upright and just and protect the innocent. They should not be ploy of the
politicians. I know that there are times that they can be transferred. But if
every policeman in India is honest, the new policemen who are transferred will
also be honest. So what will the politicians do?
§ People should not take the law in their hand
and kill other human being.
Mahatma Gandhi said, ” If India has to improve it
should be ruled by a dictator as honest and upright as Hadrat Umar (The Caliph
of Islam).
Dr. Joseph Adam
Pearson said, ‘People
who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs,
they fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has already been dropped, it fell
the day Prophet MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born’.
-Dr Zakir Naik
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