The Ulterior Motives

Readers, as you know my religion is Islam and just like other religions, I believe that there is a higher power that controls our life. Many of my observation are based on religion-practiced and rational-proof-based combined. Mostly, I believe things which is backed-up with evidence.
Lately, Islam’s name has been deteriorated by some extremist faction that allegedly terrorizing in the west part of the world. Eventhough I don’t see any evidence that the USA pointing to the right faction that terrorizes the world, I won’t deny that there are some fundamentalists who wants to create war against other religions.
Eventhough in my religion, every people who worship Allah is brother, I won’t acknowledge terror-spreading people as my brothers. I condemn them for what they have done. Their action has lead nothing but suffering to both sides as to create malevolent cycle of vengeance.
I begin to wonder, why do this people acted this way? I thought our messenger, Muhammad (Peace bring upon him), has lead us to be a peaceful people. Did you know what did Muhammad do when he was spitted by a man who hates him? Muhammad comes to his house when he is sick and wishes that the man become well.
What did Muhammad do when Jibril asked him whether the angel shall put the infidel to death by destructing the earth which they stood upon? Muhammad refused by saying if they won’t obey Allah, let their children given a chance to obey Allah. If their children won’t obey to Allah, let their grandchildren given a chance.
Most importantly, what did our God, Allah, commands Muhammad about the infidel? Allah commands him to repect them and let them do their religion, while we do ours. These examples should be more than enough that Islam is a religion of peace.
However, I won’t deny that Islam permits killing the infidel. But then again, our mighty God has spoken to do that only when you are threaten for your life and He forbids the killing of unarmed civilian,  such as women and children. If the 9/11 incident was cause by Islamist extremists, than I assured you, they are not obeying the God commands as they sacrifices the soul of innocent people just for their narrow-minded principals. I’m sure Allah also condemned their action.
Many wars has tore up upon the history of Islam. In the name of the mighty God, they tried to free the slavery, bring justice to the earth, and so on. However, Muhammad always prioritize to be diplomatic and only choose war as his final option for self-defense. If you don’t believe me, you can try to read your history book about who started the war on Crusade War, The Battle to Retrieve Mecca, and other wars that he fought at that time.
In conclusion, there is no such thing as holy war. Not even in the islamic scripture has mention that a war is holy, eventhough it involved the name of Allah. Muhammad always condemns war and Allah never encourage His follower to start a war in His name.

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