By: Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:09:40 +0000

The fact that someone shouted “Allahu Akbar” before committing murder or suicide bombings and killing of innocent people does not make them automatically a “martyr” as most Muslim clergymen claims. Murder is a murder whether committed against people of the same faith or against what Jihadist clergymen calls “infidels”. I simply do not see any justification or excuses whatsoever within the laws of God/Allah or the laws of man that justifies the cold blooded murder as is the case in Ft. Hood, Texas. As a former soldier and I would say devout Muslim (in the sense that I commit to all the real values that are at the core of faith) I do not subscribe to the Jihadist ideology, and I am against all of the cold blooded murders committed by those who calls themselves “believers” and those who commit suicide bombings even if these acts are directed at Israelis. I make a clear distinction between fighting and resisting with arms Israeli soldiers and armed settlers but do not believe that killing of innocent people on buses and restaurants are acts of faith and Jihad. I have no problem taking up arms and fighting those who kill and murder in the name of “Islam” such as we see in Iraq where suicide bombers killed tens of thousands of innocent people, or the so called “Mujahideens” who turned Kabul Stadium to a show case of “Islamic Justice” by chopping heads and severing arms in the name of Sharia with ever bothering to build a school or a clinic let alone a bakery. I think fighting “Islamists Jihadists” has to commence with us Muslims. For too long we allowed these misfits and idiots the likes of Abu-Hamza and Abu-Qutada to hijack Islam. If these were the leaders of the “Umma” in the early days of Islam, Islam would have died in its infancy. Let us not glorify cold blooded murder in the name of Allah, let us not allow these imbeciles and idiots whose knowledge of Sharia does not go beyond the “private” parts of men and women and who violate the very basic rule of Allah against the killing of innocent people. If there is to be a Renaissance of Islam it will not be at the hands of illiterate Taliban’s or the Jihadists, it will be at the hands of enlightened people who are part of this world. Sharia is way much larger than simple acts of chopping heads and cutting of arms or covering women from head to toe. Sharia is a system of justice with basic moral values that goes way beyond Islam and is of universal values. Personally I prefer to live in democratic secular state that respect my faith rather than live in an “Islamic” state that does not respect my basic civil and human rights. It is time for all of us to reclaim Islam from all of these misfits and Jihadists who do nothing but kill and destroy. It is time to rebuild our societies with schools, universities, research institutions, publishing houses, translation centers, medical research centers, hospitals, clinics, roads, manufacturing’s, shops, bakeries that serve citizens and societies. It is time to reclaim our mosques from these idiots masquerading as Imam, who know nothing of the values and culture of others who never read the Bible or the Torah or the great classic in order to appreciate the society we live in. We are part of this world and we do not live alone. I have more in common with someone from Peru than I have with someone from the mountains of Afghanistan. Time to live for God not to die for God. As a Muslim, a practicing Muslim, I do not subscribe to the Talibans nor the Jihadist ideology that promote killings rather than building. If Islam had this kind of people in its infancy, it would have died long time and would not have spread to all four corners of the world. Yes, time to live for Allah not to die for Allah.

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