Page 51 - Islam Denounces Terrorism

Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 49

The Sharia of the Qur'an means love, respect, and affection and
protection toward people of all faiths and opinions. The Sharia of the
Qur'an insists on democracy, and freedom of ideas prevails. Under the
Sharia of the Qur'an, people are knowledgeable, educated, open-mind-
ed, respectful of other ideas, happy, outward-looking, modern, high
quality, optimistic, value art and science and value love and friend-
ship. There is no hatred, intolerance, conflict, fighting, despotism,

imposition, threatening, unhappiness, anger or war in the Sharia of the
Qur'an.
The failure to apply the true system of the Sharia in the Qur'an,

which would bring with it the delights cited above, and violence, love-
lessness, lack of quality and imposition being misrepresented as the
Sharia of the Qur'an is of course a very terrible thing: Blaming Islam is
not the answer, however. Those who blame Islam do grave harm by
trying to eliminate it as the sole answer to radicalism, violence and sav-
agery. They are actually smoothing the radicals' path by striving to
weaken Islam, in their own mind. It is not their accusations or the

weapons they manufacture that will eliminate radicalism and the false
beliefs propagated under the name of Islam. The only way to accom-
plish that is with the conception of the true Islam. There is a problem
of a false belief and false beliefs can only be done away with by replac-
ing them with true ones.

The True Jihad in the Qur'an

There is no killing in the jihad in the Qur'an. There is no rain-
ing bombs down in the jihad in the Qur'an. There are no suicide
bombers or cowardly attacks such as driving over civilians. There is
no hatred or cursing people in the jihad in the Qur'an. The children
of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh), of the Prophet Jacob (pbuh) and the
Prophet Moses (pbuh) are not accursed in the jihad in the Qur'an. On
the contrary, the line of prophets is regarded with respect, politeness