Who Will Bell the Cat – The Terrorism, the Militancy, the White Supremacism and the Phobia Creators: Superpowers or Spiritual Inclusive Power?
By Arman Neyazi, New Age Islam
6 November 2021
‘War
On Terror Nations' Never Willed To Defeat Terrorism, Militancy And
Sectarianism.
Main
Points:
1. Crimes against humanity
become the reason for the divine wrath.
2. Terrorists have brought
Islamophobia and Islam hatred for the religion that is the most peaceful and
inclusive.
3. Society is divided into
minuscule portions into the lines of religion, sectarianism and regionalism.
4. The powers that matter do
not seem to be in any hurry of arresting the reasons and causes of human
suffering.
5. Wars among the nations,
religions and religious faiths are necessary to maintain the supremacy of those
who call themselves ‘developed’.
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Crimes
against Humanity Become the Reason for the Divine Wrath
Allah, the Most Exalted, the All-Knower
warns and commands people of the consequences of their evil deeds. Allah, the
All-Knower says in the Holy Quran, An-Nahl: 112, that He bestowed the people of
Mecca with all the glorious gifts of nature and environment that bloom human
beings life into happiness and prosperity. But the people of Mecca did not
respect what they were blessed of rather engaged in conspiracies, crimes,
corrupt practices and deception against their fellow beings. Their crimes
against humanity became the reason for the divine wrath and this town fell into
the ditch of utmost poverty and horrible inhuman pains. Consider the following
verse:
And Allah presents an example: a city [i.e., Makkah]
which was safe and secure, its provision coming to it in abundance from every
location, but it denied the favours of Allah. So Allah made it taste the
envelopment of hunger and fear for what they had been doing. (An-Nahl: 112) - Sahih International
Above mentioned verse of the Holy Quran is
the story of present-day beautiful and progressive Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya
and Afghanistan etc. These countries are facing divine wrath in the form of
terrorism and militancy in the name of religion and sectarianism.
All the terrorist organisations are
fighting for the sake of religion and its ethos, as they say. But what is the
result? They have brought Islamophobia and Islam hatred for the religion that
is the most peaceful and inclusive.
Islam is the religion that is embedded with the essence of inclusivity ("O mankind, indeed we have created you
from male and female, AL-Hujurat - 13), peace (And do not kill any soul (a person) - Al-Isra: 33), and justice for
all (“God commands justice and fair
dealing…” An-Nahl: 90). Terrorists are indulging in every act that is
degrading Islam and Islamic ethics.
The Holy Quran identifies the terrorists,
militants and phobia mongering people in the following verse:
Whenever he attains authority, he goes about the earth
spreading mischief and laying to waste crops and human life, even though Allah
(whose testimony he invokes) does not love mischief. (Al-Baqarah: 205)
Ever-increasing human suffering is not
going to subside shortly. The reason behind the world of atrocities is the
ever-increasing power-hungry and pseudo-secular politicians not acknowledging
their fault of bringing upheavals in the lives of their respective followers.
Nor do they seem to be in any hurry of arresting the reasons and causes of the
human sufferings.
The financial inequality in the world is
rapidly growing manifold. We proudly go through the news of the rich getting
richer, with no news of how the poor are getting poorer. This is because the
newspapers we read are owned by the rich of the world who are interested in the
search of new avenues of sucking the blood of the people who do not matter to
them.
Society is divided into minuscule portions
into the lines of religion, sectarianism and regionalism. The activist
organisations and the nations that talk of human rights have not even taken
notice of the majoritarianism of the rich countries. Developed, these nations
should not be called for whether an individual or a nation is developed only
when there is no hypocrisy left in it. So it can be said that the so-called
developed nations have failed to bell any of the cats – terrorism, militancy,
white supremacism or sectarianism. These cats have grown into horrible lions
that are more stupendous to be clubbed.
Spiritually speaking, it is said that,
where there is a will, there is a way. Looking at the present prevailing
terrifying world situation and the decades of a fight to bring them under
control, it can easily be said that these ‘War on terror nations' never willed
to defeat terrorism, militancy and sectarianism. The raging war among the nations
creates a market for killing weapons that these, 'fighting against terror
nations' manufacture and sell. This devastating weapon industry is the only
bread and butter earner source on which their supremacy rests. The human
killing weapon industry will prosper as much there will be wars hence wars
among the nations, religions and religious faiths is necessary to maintain the
supremacy of those who call themselves ‘developed’.
All those who are indulging in terror,
militancy and all other kinds of human sufferings, there is a warning for them
in the Holy Quran:
…. surely Allah does not make the work of
mischief-makers to thrive. (Yunus: 81)
File photo of US Special Representative for
Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban's top political leader Mullah Abdul
Ghani Baradar signing the peace agreement, Doha | ANI Photo
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Reports
on the War on Terror
War on terror was supposed to track and
finish terrorism from its roots, as they say, was in Afghanistan, but after a
two-decade war, the result is that the cats have been given the mousses that
were supposed to be provided safety, by the government fighting against terror,
on a platter. If all the losses of the dear lives of the civilians, military
personnel and even the terrorists make sense, it was worthwhile. If not the
so-called developed nations have brought humanity to its knees. Consider what
the following reports say:
According
to a 2021 study conducted by the Watson Institute for International and Public
Affairs:
...several post-9/11 wars participated in
by the United States in its war against terror have caused the displacement,
conservatively calculated, of 38 million people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq,
Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and the Philippines; 26.7 million people have
returned home the following displacement. The study estimated these wars caused
the deaths of 897,000 to 929,000
people, including over 364,000
civilians, and cost $8 trillion.
(Courtesy:
War on Terror/ From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia)
Religious
Terrorism
According to the Global Terrorism Index by
the University of Maryland, College Park, religious extremism has overtaken
national separatism and become the main driver of terrorist attacks around the
world. Since 9/11 there has been a five-fold increase in deaths from terrorist
attacks. The majority of incidents over the past several years can be tied to
groups with a religious agenda. Before 2000, it was nationalist separatist
terrorist organizations such as the IRA and Chechen rebels who were behind the
most attacks. The number of incidents from nationalist separatist groups has
remained relatively stable in the years since while religious extremism has
grown.
The prevalence of Islamist groups in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria is the main driver behind these
trends.
Four of the terrorist groups that have been
most active since 2001 are Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIL. These
groups have been most active in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria.
Eighty per cent of all deaths from terrorism occurred in one of these five
countries.
In
2015 four Islamic extremist groups were responsible for 74% of all deaths from
Islamic terrorism: ISIS, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda, according to
the Global Terrorism Index 2016. Since approximately 2000, these incidents have
occurred on a global scale, affecting not only Muslim-majority states in Africa
and Asia, but also states with non-Muslim majorities such as the United States,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Russia, Australia,
Canada, Sri Lanka, Israel, China, India and Philippines. Such attacks have
targeted both Muslims and non-Muslims, however, the majority affect Muslims
themselves.
Terrorism in Pakistan has become a great
problem. From the summer of 2007 until late 2009, more than 1,500 people were
killed in suicide and other attacks on civilians for reasons attributed to a
number of causes—sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims; easy
availability of guns and explosives; the existence of a "Kalashnikov
culture"; an influx of ideologically driven Muslims based in or near
Pakistan, who originated from various nations around the world and the
subsequent war against the pro-Soviet Afghans in the 1980s which blew back into
Pakistan; the presence of Islamist insurgent groups and forces such as the
Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba. On July 2, 2013, in Lahore, 50 Muslim scholars of
the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) issued a collective fatwa against suicide
bombings, the killing of innocent people, bomb attacks, and targeted killings
declaring them as Haram or forbidden.
In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Centre
released a report on terrorism in the United States. The report (titled The Age
of the Wolf) found that during that period, "more people have been killed
in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists." The
"virulent racist and anti-Semitic" ideology of the ultra-right-wing
Christian Identity movement is usually accompanied by anti-government
sentiments. Adherents of Christian Identity are not connected with specific
Christian denominations, and they believe that whites of European descent can
be traced back to the "Lost Tribes of Israel" and many consider Jews
to be the Satanic offspring of Eve and the Serpent. This group has committed
hate crimes, bombings and other acts of terrorism. Its influence ranges from
the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups to the anti-government militia and
sovereign citizen movements. Christian Identity's origins can be traced back to
Anglo-Israelism, which held the view that the British people were descendants
of ancient Israeltes.
However, in the United States, the ideology
started to become rife with anti-Semitism, and eventually, Christian Identity
theology diverged from the philo-Semitic Anglo-Israelism and developed what is
known as the "two-seed" theory. According to the two-seed theory, the
Jewish people are descended from Cain and the serpent (not from Shem). The
white European seed line is descended from the "lost tribes" of
Israel. They hold themselves to "God's laws", not to "man's
laws", and they do not feel bound to a government that they consider run
by Jews and the New World Order. The Ku Klux Klan is widely denounced by
Christian denominations.
Israel has had problems with Jewish
religious terrorism even before its independence in 1948. During the British
mandate over Palestine, the Irgun were among the Zionist groups labelled as
terrorist organisations by the British authorities and United Nations for
violent terror attacks against Britons and Arabs. Another extremist group, the
Lehi, openly declared its members as "terrorists".
Historian William Cleveland stated many
Jews justified any action, even terrorism, taken in the cause of the creation
of a Jewish state. In 1995, Yigal Amir assassinated Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin. For Amir, killing Rabin was an exemplary act that symbolized the
fight against an illegitimate government that was prepared to cede Jewish Holy
Land to the Palestinians.
(Courtesy:
Terrorism/ From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopaedia)
Above mentioned reposts mirror the result
that the world has finally achieved from the war on terror, therefore, now it
is time to return to humane treatment that all the religions and religious
faiths have approved and that is the treatment of the soul through
spiritualism.
How can we heal our cultural fractures? / Image:
REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
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Spiritual
Upbringing of the World – Cure of All Kinds of Evil
Allah the Exalted has revealed the Holy
Quran for the guidance of the human being. The Holy Quran has the warnings for
the inhuman treatment of His creations and has the guidance for the people who
have lost the righteous path. All those who are indulging in the terror,
militancy and all other kinds of human sufferings, there is a warning for them
in the Holy Quran:
…. surely Allah does not make the work of
mischief-makers to thrive. (Yunus: 81)
Because of this or that reason, terrorism,
militancy, white supremacism and sectarianism (in all the religions) are there
waiting to bury humanitarian ethics and bring unaccountable human losses to the
world, no one can deny this fact. Terrorism, militancy, phobias or sectarianism
are nothing but mental health cases. All such people who practice the burying
tactics of humanity need to be treated but not with weapons, with compassion
and kindness. If the disease is there, the cure has to be round the corner.
Consider what Allah the Exalted says in the Holy Quran and Prophet Muhammad
Pbuh in a tradition:
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. (Ash-Sharh - 5)
We send down the Quran as a healing and mercy for the
believers, but it only increases the wrongdoers in loss. (Al-Isra: 82)
Abu Hurairah (RA) narrates, the Prophet
(Pbuh) said, “Allah (God) did not send down a disease without having sent down
its cure.”
The world is in immediate need of going for
the treatment of terrorism, militancy and supremacism of every kind. Deadly
weapons are not the answer, the answer is spreading the teachings of religious
leaders and Sufis of all the religions and faiths.
It is not that only those are suffering
whose sufferings are visible. Those who are the injectors of the suffering on
human beings are also suffering. Their wounds are invisible. They are ill at
heart. Their suffering is more painful as they do not know that they have
inflicted sufferings on themselves. Illusion does not have a long life. The bad
men of the society are living in the illusive world that is created by the fake
religious teachings of the fake religious scholars. The lives of the
disillusioned terrorists and terrorist mistresses that have joined terrorist
groups, taking it as their religious duty, is a lesson for the would-be
terrorists and militants. But their pathetic mental health does not come in the
open for the world to know. The world should know how their elusive world of
religion has disenchanted and how they think they were on the unrighteous path.
Spiritual
Gurus and Their Description of Spiritual Healing
"All healing is first a healing of the
heart." - Carl Townsend
"Although the world is full of
suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." - Helen Keller
"The practice of forgiveness is our
most important contribution to the healing of the world." - Marianne Williamson
"Healing yourself is connected with
healing others." - Yoko Ono
"Love one another and help others to
rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and
the greatest healing energy." - Sai
Baba
And to conclude, consider the following:
"Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet
to the soul and healing to the bones." - Proverbs 16:23-25
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed
only when we touch them with compassion." - Buddha
And Allah Know the Best.
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Arman Neyazi is a columnist with NewAgeIslam.com.
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