Page 90 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

War for the Purpose of Spreading the Rules of Islam to be
Introduced by A Muslim Leader?

As we have already seen in detail, according to the Qur'an, a
Muslim leader must be someone who also embraces Christians,
Jews, atheists, communists, agnostics, Buddhists and people who
adhere to other beliefs and ideological systems in the community he

leads. He must implement complete freedom of ideas. He must
allow people complete liberty. Conflict, slander and hypocritical
people appear where there are no freedoms. He must prevent that
and do what the Qur'an requires. As stated in the verse "You who
believe! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for God alone,

even against yourselves or your parents and relatives." (Qur'an',
4:135) he has a responsibility to maintain justice without regard for
individuals, beliefs or origins, even if that works against himself.

War for the Elimination of Enemies?

How can there be enemies in Islam? Islam is a religion that
requires all people to be equal and brothers. According to Islam, no
matter what someone's color, language, religion, race, citizenship or

social standing, he is an entity worthy of respect simply for the fact
that he is human. As all the revealed religions say, human beings are
brothers as we are all the children of the Prophet Adam (pbuh). This
principle of brotherhood is a requirement of religious belief.

Islam is opposed to all fascist-type ideologies and ideas and
materialist and Darwinist thinking that are based on racial superior-
ity and divide people into false categories such as "advanced" and

"primitive." It therefore engages in an intellectual and rational strug-
gle against these conflicts that these ideologies bring with them, and
has no room for them within itself.

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