Write an article on terrorism and violence
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Terrorism is an act, which aims to create fear among ordinary people by illegal means. It is a threat to humanity. It includes person or group spreading violence, riots, burglaries, rapes, kidnappings, fighting, bombings, etc. Terrorism is an act of cowardice. Also, terrorism has nothing to do with religion. A terrorist is only a terrorist, not a Hindu or a Muslim.
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“Leaders of the Muslim community in the United States, and even President Bush, have routinely asserted that Islam is a religion of peace that was hijacked by fanatics on September 11. These two assertions are simply untrue. First, Islam–like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other religion–is not about peace. Nor is it about war. Every religion is about absolute belief in its own superiority and the divine right to impose its version of truth upon others.” –Dr. Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy
In the January 8, 2002, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote, “There’s just one thing that most Americans and Osama bin Laden seem able to agree on: that the attacks on the World Trade Center arose somehow from Islam.”
But is Islam an inherently violent religion? With good reason many of us have been turning to acknowledged experts for help in clarifying what turns out to be a complex issue. In particular, three highly respected humanist writers of great courage and persuasiveness, with roots in the Muslim community, have been widely read and quoted: ibn Warraq (a pseudonym), Salman Rushdie, and Pervez Hoodbhoy. Their views deserve our closest attention.
PERVEZ HOODBHOY AND ISLAMIC DIVERSITY
First, let’s consider Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy, an outstanding Pakistani nuclear physicist, whose December 30, 2001, Washington Post article, “How Islam Lost Its Way” (expanded in the spring 2002 Free Inquiry), strikes at the heart of the matter. Insisting on the fundamental diversity of Islam, Hoodbhoy writes:
Maulana Abdus Sattar Edhi, Pakistan’s preeminent social worker, and the Taliban’s Mohammad Omar are both followers of Islam, but the former is overdue for a Nobel Peace Prize while the latter is an ignorant, psychotic fiend. Palestinian writer Edward Said [of Christian background, teaching at Columbia University], among others, has insistently pointed out that Islam holds very different meaning for different people. Within my own family, hugely different kinds of Islam are practiced. The religion is as heterogeneous as those who believe and follow it. There is no “true Islam.”
Every essentialist statement ever made about Islam should be weighed against this paragraph, with which virtually all objective scholars of Islam would agree. In practice, there is no “true Islam”; there are only Islams–as many as there are individual Muslims. Moreover, the differences among Islams are sometimes vast. Uniformity is concentrated more or less in five “pillars”: the confession of faith; the prayer ritual; fasting during Ramadan; giving alms for the poor; and the pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in one’s lifetime. Some Islams add a sixth pillar–jihad, the internal or external “struggle in the path of God”–while still others substitute it for one of the other five. There is also great disagreement among Muslims as to the practical meaning of jihad–particularly as to whether it refers primarily to inner struggle, directed against one’s worst impulses, or to outer struggle, directed against a society that refuses to allow Muslims to worship.
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