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Radicalization of Muslim Youths

the source of this radicalization? The Quran and the Sunnah
are certainly not the ideological sources of this radicalization.
The source of this culture is the use by Muslims of internet or
social media as an extended form of Muslim media. Muslims
have easy access to the international network—the internet,
and are using it on a vast scale. Thus they have filled their
websites on the internet with false pictures and false reports
which show that Muslims are an imperilled community. This
outreach of the social media is there in everyone’s pocket in
the form of mobile phones.
It is this website or internet culture that has basically
contributed to the radicalization of today’s Muslim youth. To
save young Muslims from this negative culture, an extensive
campaign is required to awaken Muslim minds in such a way
that they may analyze information on websites on their own
and develop the ability to differentiate between truth and
falsehood. The present book is an attempt to aid them in this.
This kind of violence cannot be eliminated through counter-
violence, because any counter-violence can only further
aggravate the Muslims’ anger. It is only due to this aggravated
anger that they have taken to suicide bombing.
In the modern age, almost the entire Muslim community
has started to lodge protests and complaints. Because of
this mindset of theirs, Muslims have become receptive to
negativity and not to positivity. Under the influence of this
mindset Muslims tend to treat positive news with suspicion.
All they know is that others are their enemies; they are
unable to view people as creations of God. They only look at
the negative aspect of events and fail to take account of their
positive aspects.
Muslims today have coined a new term, that is, Islamophobia.
This means that the West has wrongly come to regard Islam as
danger to non-Muslims. This, however, is not actually the case.

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