Page 18 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

16 Islam Denounces Terrorism

Besides the Western organisations, there are also other terror
organisations of Middle East origin. Terrorist attacks are carried out by
these groups in all corners of the world. The fact that the perpetrators
of various terrorist acts carry Christian, Muslim or Jewish identities

cause some people to put forward claims which do not concur with
Divine religions. The truth is that even if terrorists have Muslim iden-
tities, the terror they perpetrate cannot be labelled "Islamic terror", just
as it could not be called "Jewish terror" if the perpetrators were Jews or

"Christian terror" if they were Christians. That is because, as will be
examined in the following pages, all the Divine religions command
peace and love, and murdering innocent people in the name of a
Divine religion is unacceptable. These people misinterpret the holy

Scriptures that God sent to people for peace and brotherhood, and
through their self-invented superstitions, work to allegedly legitimize
violence against people from different beliefs and thereby completely
violate their faith in the process. We need to keep in mind that, among

those who were killed in terror attacks, for example in New York, Lon-
don, Paris, Berlin or Tel Aviv, there were people who loved the
Prophet Jesus (pbuh) (Christians), the Prophet Moses (pbuh) (Jews)
and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (Muslims). Unless forgiven by

God, murdering innocent people is a great sin that leads to torment in
hell. No one who is religious, and loves and fears God would commit
such a murder.

The aggressors, regardless of which faith they claim to be a
member of, may commit such violence either out of ignorance or

with the intention of misusing religion for their own ends, or out of
their enmity against religion. This violence divorces people from reli-
gion and generates hatred towards those who are religiously inclined.
Consequently, every attack on innocent people having a so-called reli-

gious facade is actually an attack made against religion.