February 20, 2019
Religion and violence are opposites
I wish you don’t buy the calls that mistakenly link Islam to terrorism. You know quite well that religion and violence are opposites that never coexist. I believe you are sure that heavenly religions came only to offer human happiness and to deliver humanity from loss and aberration, and to free them from slavery, injustice, and tyranny. You also know that armed religious groups, which raise the banner of religion, are traitors to their religion just as they are traitors to themselves and their responsibilities.
Know that raising the banner of religion to legalize killings and bombings is a crime, and that religion has nothing to do with it. You know that the history witnessed brutal crimes that were committed in the name of religions and sustained by corrupt interpretations of the canonical texts of sacred scriptures. It was then the believers who paid a dear price, losing their lives and the lives of their families for such crimes. Still, no true believer could ever dare to hold the divine religions accountable for these crimes that were committed in their name. I hope you note that this terrorism, whatever its names or designations might be, has nothing to do with Islam and that tracing its roots to Islam and the Islamic Sharia is a misleading logical fallacy. Those maligners who make such false claims should better search for the real causes of terrorism in global double-standard policies, in exploitative regional and international ambitions, in politicization of religion, and in arms trades and warmongering. They should better know that terrorism sprouts when people forget Allah Almighty, deride His Religion, Prophets and Messengers, and Scriptures. It also sprouts when materialism and Machiavellianism prevail, and when true religious values are relegated to the background in the moral and cultural formation of societies.