Is Terrorism a Muslim Monopoly?

Dr Zakir Naik

19 April 2013 at 19:53

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

2015 - GUNUNG DATUK, REMBAU, NS.

HUTAN KITA KHAZANAH KITA
17 OKTOBER 2015
GUNUNG DATUK, REMBAU, NEGERI SEMBILAN

Pada 17 Oktober 2015 saya bersama team Yayasan Jantung Malaysia dan juga jururawat dari SALAM Senawang Specialist Hospital telah bekerjasama menjayakan program Hutan Kita Khazanah Kita anjuran Majlis Belia Daerah Rembau. 
Rembau adalah sebuah daerah di Negeri Sembilan yang terletak di arah selatan bersempadan dengan negeri Melaka. Mempunyai keluasan seluas 402.76 km persegi dengan 17 Mukim yang mengandungi 204 buah kampung. 
Jarak dari Kuala Lumpur ke Rembau ialah 93 km mengambil masa perjalanan lebihkurang 1 jam 19 minit. 

Menurut sejarah, daerah Rembau adalah merupakan penempatan awal orang Minangkabau dari Sumatera. Mereka telah membuka perkampungan di sini dan berkahwin dengan penduduk asli daerah ini. Ketika zaman Kegemilangan kerajaan Melayu Melaka, Daerah Rembau  dipercayai terletak dalam jajahan Melaka.

Yang Di Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan yang pertama iaitu Raja Melawar dikatakan telah ditabalkan di Rembau iaitu di Kampung Penajis. Setelah mangkat, Baginda telah disemadikan di Kampung Astana Raja di Daerah Rembau. 

Dalam perjalanan dari KL ke Rembau kami singgah di pekan Tampin untuk memberi beberapa barangan keperluan.

HOMESTAY HAJI ABDUL HAMID

Semasa program ini, kami menginap di Homestay Haji Abdul Hamid yang terletak di Sungai Layang di Daerah Rembau. Kepada sesiapa yang hendak bercuti dan rekreasi di Gunung Datuk boleh lah menginap di Homestay ini kerana harganya berpatutan dan amat selesa dengan bilik air dan bilik mandi yang banyak, jadi tak perlu berebut-rebut nak mandi dan sebagainya. 

GUNUNG DATUK, REMBAU, NEGERI SEMBILAN. 
Gunung Datuk dikenali juga Gunung Beradat terletak di Kampung Batang Nyamor, 21 km dari pekan Rembau dan 15 km dari pekan Tampin. 
Gunung Datuk adalah puncak yang tertinggi di daerah Rembau dengan ketinggiannya yang melebihi 1.900 kaki. Di Gunung ini juga terletaknya tapak asal pokok Merbau yang mana nama daerah ini diperolehi. 

Gunung ini kaya dengan legenda, antaranya tapak kaki dipuncaknya yang dikatakan adalah tapak kaki Hang Tuah. Hang Tuah dikatakan berhenti sekekita untuk berehat ketika dalam perjalanan ke Tanjung Tuan. Menurut sumber yang diperolehi hanya terdapat 2 tempat kewujudan tapak kaki Hang Tuah iaitu di Tanjung Tuan Port Dickson dan Gunung Datuk, Rembau. 

Program Hutan Kita Khazanah kita berakhir pada jam 2 petang. Sebelum berangkat pulang ke Kuala Lumpur kami dijamu dengan makan tengahari oleh AJK Majlis Belia Daerah Rembau. 

Terima kasih tidak terhingga kami ucapkan kepada Majlis Belia Daerah Rembau yang telah memberikan layanan baik kepada kami sepanjang program ini. Tidak lupa juga kepada SALAM Senawang Specialist Hospital terutama Puan Azwa Aziz yang telah banyak memberikan bantuan kepada Setaf YJM sepanjang program. Diharap bertemu lagi dalam program-program yang akan datang.... Insya Allah...

Zulheimy Maamor

Yayasan Jantung Malaysia

17.10.2015

2015 - PERAK : KAMPAR, TAIPING, SERI MANJUNG DAN LUMUT

Tahun 2015, tidak banyak program kami jalankan di Negeri Perak. Hanya ada 2 program yang dijalankan di Negeri Perak iaitu program Komuniti di Taman Ros Kampar pada 12 April 2015 dan Program Heartweek di AEON Mall Taiping, Perak dari 9-13 September 2015. 

Namun aku tidak pergi semasa program Heartweek di AEON Mall Taiping cuma menghadiri mesyuarat sahaja. 

PROGRAM KOMUNITI 

TAMAN ROS KAMPAR, PERAK

12 APRIL 2015

Program Komuniti berlansung di Taman Ros di Kampar, Perak pada 12 April 2015. Taman Ros adalah kampung halaman salah seorang setaf Yayasan Jantung Malaysia. 

Ini adalah program kali kedua kami jalan di Taman Ros. Kali pertama adalah pada tahun 2012. Seramai 107 orang penduduk kampung telah hadir untuk menjalani Ujian Pemeriksaan Kesihatan pada hari tersebut. 

Rujuk: Program Komuniti - Taman Ros, Kampar 2012

Sepanjang di Kampar, kami telah menginap di Grand Hotel Kampar yang beralamat di Jalan Timah, Bandar Baru Kampar. 
Perjalanan dari Pejabat kami di Kuala Lumpur ke Grand Kampar Hotel sejauh 175 km dan mengambil masa perjalanan selama 2 jam 11 min. 

Grand Hotel Kampar

2188, Jalan Timah, Bandar Baru Kampar,
31900 Kampar, Perak Darul Ridzuan,
Malaysia.

Tel: 05-466 2111     Fax: 05-466 3222

KAMPAR

Kampar terletak kira-kira 40 km dari bandaraya Ipoh dan 16 km dari pekan Tapah di Perak. Ianya telah diisytiharkan sebagai daerah ke 10 Negeri Perak pada 21 mei 2009 oleh Sultan Perak. 

Dikatakan bahawa nama Kampar diambil sempena nama Kampar di Indonesia dimana berlaku penghijrahan orang-orang Kampar dari Indonesia sekitar tahun 1800-1900. 

BATTLE OF KAMPAR

Mungkin ramai yang tidak mengetahui bahawa Kampar pernah tercatat dalam Sejarah sebagai antara tempat pertempuran paling sengit semasa Perang Dunia Kedua dahulu. Berikut adalah maklumat ringkas mengenai pertempuran di Kampar yang saya petik dari Wikipedia.... Kalau pembaca ingin mengetahui lebih lanjut mengenai sejarah pertempuran itu sila rujuk pada laman web tersebut. 

Petikan dari Wikipedia:

Pertempuran Kampar (30 Disember 1941 - 2 Januari 1942) merujuk kepada pertempuran yang berlaku di bandar Kampar, yang ketika itu merupakan sebuah bandar melombong bijih timah dinegeri Perak, Malaysia. Dengan kegagalan tentera British menghalang kemaraan tentera Jepun di Jitra dan Gurun dalam kempen penjajahan Jepun di Tanah Melayu, pihak British telah menubuhkan barisan pertahanan di Kampar sebagai usaha menyekat kemaraan tersebut.

Bandar Kampar telah dipilih oleh Leftean-Jeneral Arthur E. Percival, commander-in-chief bagi pasukan British di Malaya kerana kedudukannya di kaki Gunung Bujang Melaka setinggi 1,206 meterdengan rabungnya yang mengarah bandar Kampar. Pada 23 Disember 1941, batalion Percival telah menduduki tiga rabung rendah di utara Kampar: rabung Hijau, rabung Thompson Ridge dan rabung Kubur yang mengarah jalan raya utama dan landasan kereta api. Selain itu permukaan bumi yang rata di sebelah barat bandar Kampar turut merupakan kedudukan yang selesa bagi meriam pertahanan - ini kerana pihak Birtish mempunyai kelebihan artileri berbanding pihak Jepun.

Sehingga petang Krismas 1941, batalion British masih bertungkus lumus menyediakan tempat pertahanan bagi menghadapai kemaraan tentera Jepun yang mereka tahu semakin menghampiri kedudukan mereka setiap jam. Sungguh pun begitu, mereka sempat menikmati hidangan krismas dengan ayam belanda, ayam dari pasar Kampar, roti segar, cokelat dan juga minuman keras. Selain itu setiap masa yang tinggal diisi dengan tugasan menggali sistem kubu perparitan, sarang mesingan, dan pos pemerhati. Di antara pasukan berikat yang bertahan di situ adalah Batalion Punjab dari Brigade India ke-16, Batalion Hyderabad ke-4 dan ke19 Hyderabad dan Batalion Punjab ke-2 dan ke-5 dari Brigade India ke-12 dan ke-18, Batalion Kedua Argyll dan Sutherland Highlanders dan unit Gurkha dari Brigade India ke-28.

Selama tujuh hari, seramai 2,000 tentera berkerja keras dari subuh sehingga maghrib, menggali sistem kubu perparitan, sarang mesingan, dan pos pemerhati yang sebahagiannya masih dapat dilihat di rabung Hijau.

Pertempuran di Kampar merupakan salah satu dari pertempuran yang paling sengit semasa Kempen Tanah Melayu, tetapi pada 2 Januari mereka dipintas dan laluan ke Singapura terputus dibelakang mereka. Dengan perlindungan oleh tembakan meriam, kemungkinannya membabitkan Bateri ke 501, tentera British berundur sepanjang jalan utama ke kedudukan yang telah disediakan di Trolak, sekitar lima batu di utara Slim River. Di situ mereka dikejutkan dan dimusnahkan oleh kereta kebal tentera Jepun dalam Pertempuran di Slim River.

Rujukan: http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertempuran_di_Kampar

MESYUARAT DI AEON MALL TAIPING

30.7.2015

Pada 30 Julai 2015, saya dan Pengurus Program, En. Mohd Salehuddin telah menghadiri mesyuarat Penyelarasan Program di AEON Mall Taiping yang terletak di Jalan Kamunting, Taiping, Perak. 
Perjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Hotel Legeng Inn, Taiping adalah sejauh 267 km, mengambil masa perjalanan selama 3 jam. 

Pengurus Awareness Program Hj. Mohd Salehuddin Malek

Kami menginap di Hotel Legend Inn yang terletak di Jalan Long Jaafar, Kg. Jambu, Taiping, Perak. 

Hotel Legend Inn

No. 2, Jalan Long Jaafar

24000 Taiping

Perak.

Tel: 05-806 0000

MESYUARAT PENYELARASAN PROGRAM 

AEON SERI MANJUNG, PERAK

11 OGOS 2015

Pada 11 Ogos 2015 , saya bersama En. Mohd Salehuddin Abd Malek, Pengurus Program YJM telah menghadiri penyelarasan program di AEON Seri Manjung,Perak. 

Daerah Manjung sebelum tahun 1973 dikenali sebagai Daerah Dindings. Pada ketika itu Daerah Dinding merangkumi 3 kawasan sahaja iaitu Sitiawan, Lumut dan Pulau Pangkor. Kini ia telah dikembangkan hingga ke Pantai Remis, Pekan Ayer Tawar, Pekan Lekir, Pekan Pangkor dan Pekan Bruas. 

Pengurus Awareness Program, Hj.Mohd Salehuddin Malik

Kami menginap di sebuah Hotel Budget di Daerah Lumut, Perak. Pekan Lumut memang tidak asing bagi ku. Sebagai bekas anggota Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia, Lumut adalah merupakan pengkalan utama TLDM dimana saya menerima latihan sebagai anggota TLDM di Lumut, Perak pada awal tahun 1980.

Disini jugalah saya bertemu kembali dengan sahabat lama yang pernah bersama-sama berkhidmat di atas Kapal TLDM KD Raja Jarom di Woodlands, Singapura pada 1981/82 dan kemudian sekali lagi bersama di KD Sri Rejang di Sibu, Sarawak tahun 1983/84 iaitu Savirimuthu yang sekarang menjalankan perniagaan runcit di Sitiawan.

Lumut berada dibawah pentadbiran daerah Manjong yang merupakan nama baru bagi daerah Dinding. Lumut terletak kira-kira 84 km dari bandaraya Ipoh. 

Lumut semakin pesat membangun setelah terdirinya Pengkalan Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia di sini. 

Lumut juga adalah laluan masuk ke Pulau Pangkor yang merupakan destinasi pelancong yang terkenal di Malaysia. 

HENTIAN REHAT RTC, PERAK

Hentian Rehat RTC (Rural Transformation Centre) adalah sebuah hentian rehat terletak di daerah Gopeng, Perak yang sering kami kunjungi dan beristirehat jika berkembara ke Utara Tanahair. 

Saya paling suka kalau berhenti rehat di R&R RTC ini kerana di sini terdapat berbagai kemudahan seperti Pasaraya Mydin, Surau, Agro Bazaar, Medan Selera dan lain-lain. Di Hari Sabtu terdapat Pasar Lokken / Karat yang memulakan perniagaan dari jam 8 pagi hingga 2 petang. 

Demikianlah kembara YJM di Negeri Perak sepanjang tahun 2015.