how can we convince the west that islam is not related to terrorism?

Answer 1

when they can not see that not all the terrorist in the world are Muslim.

Here are some non-Muslim Terrorist

(1) The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the 'RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organization dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. The organization has been outlawed and classified as a terrorist group in the Republic of Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries. Since its emergence in 1969, its stated aim has been the reunification of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as a single sovereign state independent of the United Kingdom, which it believed could only be achieved by an armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland. On July 28, 2005, the Provisional IRA Army Council announced an end to its armed campaign, stating that it would work to achieve its aims using "purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means" and that "IRA Volunteers must not engage in any other activities whatsoever".
Like all other organizations calling themselves the IRA the Provisional’s refer to themselves in public announcements and internal discussions as Óglaigh na hÉireann (literally "Volunteers of Ireland"), the official Irish language title of the Irish Defence Forces (the Irish army).

The IRA was chiefly active in Northern Ireland, although it took its campaign to the Republic of Ireland and England, and also carried out several attacks in the Netherlands and West Germany. The IRA also targeted certain British government officials, politicians, judges, senior Military and police officers and civilians in Great Britain, and in other areas such as West Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. A considerable number of British civilians were killed by IRA bombs during the conflict.

(2) The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995, in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed, killing 168 people. It is the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States and was the deadliest act of terrorism within U.S. borders until September 11, 2001. Two men later convicted of the bombing, Timothy McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols, had sympathies with the anti-government militia movement. McVeigh later claimed that his aim was to avenge the Waco Siege.
(3) ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque for "Basque Homeland and Freedom"; IPA pronunciation: [ˈɛːta]) is an armed Basque nationalist organization that seeks to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people in the Basque Country, separate from Spain and France. On March 22, 2006, the organization declared a permanent ceasefire stating it will commit itself "to promote a democratic process in the Basque Country in order to build a new framework within which our rights as a people are recognized, and guarantee the opportunity to develop all political options in the future." ETA is considered by Spain, France, the European Union, and the United States to be a terrorist organization, with more than 800 killings attributed to it.

•October 8, 1999: ETA is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTA) by the U.S. government for the first time.
•25 May 2001: Thousands of Spaniards participate in a silent march through San Sebastian, a northern city, to protest the killing of journalist Santiago Oleaga Elejabarrieta. Banners are held that read "No to ETA – Peace and Freedom." Spanish reporters give a statement saying, "However much they kill and try to impose their cause through terror we, as media professionals, will defend the expression which took so long to achieve in this country."
•11 July 2001 Hundreds of people gather in Madrid to commemorate the life of slain policeman Luis Ortiz de la Rosa, who was killed the preceding day. The rally protests ETA's actions.
•15 July 2001: CNN reports that hundreds of Spaniards have gathered in city and town halls around Spain to silently protest two killings blamed on the "Basque terrorist group ETA". The cities include Pamplona, Vitoria, and Zaragoza.
•24 August 2001: The Spanish police arrest six suspected ETA members in the Barcelona suburb of Terrasa, seizing over 550 pounds of what CNN reports as "explosives, firearms, forged license plates and electronic detonator components."
•26 February 2002: U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill announces that the U.S. has frozen assets of twenty one people associated with ETA.
•22 December 2002: Ibon Fernandez Iradi, who is suspected of teaching ETA members how to make bombs, escapes from custody in a police station in Bayonne, France.
•8 October 2003: thirty four suspected ETA members are arrested in the early morning. Twenty-nine are apprehended in northern Spain and five in France.
•9 December 2003: Police in southwestern France arrest Gorka Palacios, twenty nine, the alleged military commander of ETA. Three people who the police said were collaborators were also arrested in the 6:00 AM raid on a house in the village of Lons, near the town of Pau. At a news conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, Spanish interior minister Ángel Acebes characterized the arrests as of "great significance" and of "first magnitude."
•February 18, 2004: ETA publicly stated that a ceasefire only in Catalonia had been in effect since January 1, based on "a desire to unite the ties between the Basque and Catalan peoples." Some claimed that this ceasefire was based on a secret pact with Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, leader of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC, "Republican Left of Catalonia"). Carod-Rovira, despite admitting to having met with ETA in France in December denied having reached any accord, saying that the meeting was an attempt to drive ETA away from violence, and ended with no results. This, during an electoral campaign, became a scandal, and endangered the recent tripartite Catalan government, formed by ERC (ERC), Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds-Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (ICV-EUiA) and the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC). The opposition then accused Aznar of being behind the leak to the media of the intelligence report detailing the meeting and Aznar refused to clarify whether he knew about this meeting before the leaking. Aznar was also questioned as to why the ETA members who attended that meeting were not detained.
•Also in 2004, ETA was initially suspected of being the authors of a series of ten bombings only a few days before the national elections, which targeted three locations along Madrid's suburban train lines on the morning of March 11, 2004, killing 192 civilians (see 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks). This theory was officially endorsed by José María Aznar's government, despite the police quickly gathering evidence pointing towards Islamic terrorism. Many Spanish citizens took this rush to judgment as an offence towards the victims of the attacks and towards the Spanish people; this was generally seen as a decisive factor in the electoral result which overturned Aznar's government (see Spanish legislative election, 2004). The authorship of this attack, the largest European terrorist incident in terms of lives lost since the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 flight bombing, has been finally ascribed to Islamist militants by the Spanish police.
•20 February 2004: Nine men and a woman are arrested, making the number of ETA suspects detained this week thirty three. They worked on a Basque-language newspaper, Euskaldunon Egunkaria, published statements from ETA. They've been released and their torture claims dismissed without being investigated or even calling them to testify [10].
•21 March 2004: A spokesman for the newly elected PSOE government of Spain rejects a proposal from ETA for negotiations because ETA was not prepared to surrender its weapons.
•September 27, 2004: ETA militants sent a videotape to Gara, a Basque newspaper based in Gipuzkoa, in which the militants stated that ETA would continue to fight for Basque self-determination and that ETA would "respond with arms at the ready to those who deny us through the force of arms." This videotape represented ETA's first major public statement since the 11 March attacks. During the weekend preceding the videotape release, the group claimed responsibility for a series of bombings that hampered electricity transmission between France and Spain.
•October 3, 2004: French police launched an operation against ETA's logistical apparatus, making 21 arrests, among them the couple who functioned as top ETA leaders, Mikel Albizu Iriarte ("Mikel Antza") and Soledad Iparragirre ("Anboto"). They found four zulos (caches) with a vast quantity of armaments, much greater than had been estimated to be at ETA's disposal; they also managed to turn up information about ETA's printing an internal newsletter, but nothing leading to any major bank account or other hoard of money. The operation was considered one of the most successful since Bidart in 1992. As of October 2004, it appears that these measures will result in ETA leadership moving into different hands; it is too soon to evaluate the consequences. Spain has solicited the extradition of Mikel Antza y Amboto via a Euroorden.
•December 12, 2004: The Real Madrid Santiago Bernabéu stadium football Stadium was evacuated due to a phoned-in bomb threat in name of ETA. The bomb—expected to blow up at 9:00 p.m.—didn't explode, and the 69,000 spectators of the match under way at the time of the call were safely evacuated by the Spanish Police at 8:45 p.m.
•May 17, 2005: The Spanish Government offered to hold talks with ETA if it renounced violence. The Opposition Popular Party condemned the overture as premature.
•March 5, 2006: Following the February 2006 deaths of ETA members Igor Miguel Angulo Iturrate, 32, (due to an apparent suicide by hanging) and Ricardo Sainz Olmos, 41, (by a heart attack), Batasuna together with the union Langile Abertzaleen Batzordeak convoked a day of protest and general strike on March 9.[11] On the morning of the strike, ETA detonated several bombs near highways, with no injuries.
•March 22, 2006: ETA have declared a ceasefire after nearly 40 years fighting for independence from Spanish and French authorities. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna has decided to declare a permanent ceasefire as from 0000 (2300GMT) on 24 March 2006.
•December 30th 2006, at 9:00 in the morning, after three warning calls, ETA detonated a van bomb in a parking building at the Madrid Barajas international airport. The explosion caused the collapse of the building.
(4) The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by right-wing extremist Eric Robert Rudolph. Two persons were killed, and 111 injured.
(5) Political terrorism also may be part of a government campaign to eliminate the opposition, as under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and others, or may be part of a revolutionary effort to overthrow a regime. Terrorist attacks also are now a common tactic in guerrilla warfare. Governments find attacks by terrorist groups difficult to prevent; international agreements to tighten borders or return terrorists for trial may offer some deterrence.

(6) Terrorism in India can be attributed to India's many low intensity conflicts within its borders. If terrorism can be defined as "peacetime equivalent of war crime", then these sites of low intensity conflicts are prime spots for terrorism in India. The regions with long term terrorist activities today are Jammu and Kashmir (movement for autonomy), Central India (Naxalism) and Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the Punjab insurgency led to terrorist activities in the Indian state of Punjab as well as the national capital Delhi (Delhi serial blasts, Anti-Sikh riots). The rise of right-wing politics have also increased terrorist activities, leading to pogroms (Godhra Riots) and the Bombay bomb blasts. In recent times, the Delhi and the Varanasi bomb blasts were aimed not against the Indian state but were aimed to trigger a Hindu-Muslim schism. The perpetrators of terrorism have been members of armed opposition groups. Allegations of the involvement of state agencies of foreign nations have been made, but very little concrete evidence exists to support such allegations.


(7) Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo, who released nerve gas in Tokyo’s subway system

(8) Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso in Spanish) is a Maoist guerrilla organization in Peru; followers are generally called Senderistas. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", preferring to be called the Communist Party of Peru (see Communism in Peru); the more familiar name comes from the maxim of José Carlos Mariátegui, founder of Peru's first communist party: "El Marxismo-Leninismo abrirá el sendero luminoso hacia la revolución" (“Marxism-Leninism will open the shining path to revolution”).[1] The phrase was used on the masthead of the group's newspaper. The name "Shining Path" is used by outsiders to distinguish the organization from other Peruvian groups that claim to be "the communist party of Peru." These other groups are generally identified by the name of their newspapers.
Shining Path's stated goal is to replace Peruvian bourgeois institutions with a communist peasant revolutionary regime, presumably passing first through the Maoist developmental stage of New Democracy. Since the capture of its leader Abimael Guzmán in 1992, it has only been sporadically active. Shining Path's ideology and tactics have been influential on other Maoist insurgent groups, notably the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and other Revolutionary Internationalist Movement-affiliated armed organizations.
Widely condemned for its brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population, Sendero is on the U.S. Department of State's "Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations" list.[2] Peru, the United Kingdom and the European Union likewise regard Shining Path as a terrorist group and prohibit providing funding or other financial support.
(9) The Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse in Italian, often abbreviated as BR) are a militant leftist group located in Italy. Formed in 1970, the Marxist Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance. In 1978, they kidnapped and killed Prime Minister Aldo Moro under obscure circumstances. After 1984's scission, Red Brigades managed with difficulty to survive the official end of the Cold War in 1989, even though it is now a fragile group with no original members. Throughout the 1970’s the Red Brigades were credited with 14,000 acts of violence.

(10) The Ku Klux Klan, from Reconstruction at the end of the civil war to the end of the civil rights movement, the Ku Klux Klan used threats, violence, arson, and murder to further its white-supremacist, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic agenda.

(11) The Weathermen were a U.S. radical left organization active from 1969 to 1975. Its members referred to themselves as a "revolutionary organization of communist women and men." Their goal was the revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. government. Toward this end, and to change U.S. policy in Vietnam, they bombed a number of police and military targets. The group collapsed shortly after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.

(12) From 1978 to 1995, anti-technology radical and former mathematics professor Theodore Kaczynski--known by the codename "UNABOMBER" until his identification and arrest by the FBI--carried out a campaign of sending letter bombs to academics and various individuals associated with computer technology. The attacks ceased with his capture.

(13) Beginning on September 18, 2001, a number of media organizations and American politicians received, through the United States Postal Service, envelopes which contained weaponized anthrax. Although as of late 2005, no charges have been filed with regards to these attacks [4], the matter is widely believed to be an act of domestic terrorism.

(14) In the United States, acts of domestic terrorism are generally considered to be uncommon. According to the FBI, however, between the years of 1980 and 2000, 250 of the 335 incidents confirmed as or suspected to be terrorist acts in the United States were carried out by American citizens.

Answer 2

The question is a very good question. But I feel it is the wrong question to ask. The question could be: "How do we convince the West that it is only the few extremists in the world that have used Islam as an excuse to terrorise the world?

Islamic Faith has an equal right in the world, just like all the world religions.

Sadly, it is the few extremists in Islam, (not the majority of Islamic people) who use Islam to justify terrorism.

People need to stop using religion to justify evil actions, and this applies to all religions of the world.

Others have mentioned that politicians need to speak out more that Islam and terrorism are not synonymous with each other. Islamic leaders also need to speak out more and condemn the extremists who use religion to justify terrorism, and encourage there members to protest openly as well.

I hope this answers your question

Peace and goodwill to all people

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Those Muslims who have sense should take into custody those who do not and prosecute them. Murderers and thugs should not be idolized in society. They should behind bars or put to death. But the truth is Islam is very related to terrorism. This is a fact. Muslim terrorists are the largest group of terrorists in the world. They are fundamentally motivated by their faith and desire to bring forth jihad or holy war against the infidels. Islam is at the core of Muslim terrorists mind.

Answer 5

From what I can tell the later half of the Koran advocated gentilecide, I made that word up I think. LOL They say that later writings replace earlier writings. If that is so, then Islam leans more to aggression then the bible. No offense, but I read the Koran and it's so full of historical errors and misrepresentations of other religions that it's disproved internally by it's self. It reads like what it appears to be, a partially inspired writing of an illiterate man. The first half seems quit inspired. Go figure. (an expression meaning, who can figure it out for sure.) I can only take my best shot and it doesn't look too good, although it has some truths that Christians are wrong about and it united people in that area where there was no unity. Religion in general certainly hasn't stopped people from being stupid/violent entirely, though, that's for sure. They even use religion to justify themselves while blaming religion for their own acts. Pretty clever, huh. Having it both ways.

Answer 6

Each time an islamic terrorist does something horrible in the name of Islam, get all moderate muslims to protest openly and loudly in the streets. Each time an Islamic theocracy in the middle east marginalizes women's and other human rights, protest. And -- best of all -- never ever have the moderate muslims play victim and wonder why there's a negative perception of Islam from the west. Instead, accept responsibility and take action against the terrorists and theocracies.

Answer 7

Muslims spouting Islam currently are related to terrorism; it would be a lie to say so otherwise. Islam may condem such acts and tell good Muslims to behave in other, better ways, but Middle Eastern (primarily), African, and European Muslims use Islam as the source/reasoning for their violence.

If you want the West to stop linking terrorism to Islam, then Muslims have to stop being terrorists. Moderate Muslims MUST oppose the terrorists and educate the highly uneducated Muslim world, specifically in the Middle East where Muslims are essentially taught to play the role of victims and to blame others for their own woes. Moderate Muslims must take responsibility for their lack of condeming other terroristic Muslims and quit pretending that there is no connection.

To convince the west: Muslims must quit blowing up embassies, ships, buildings, Muslims from different tribes, occupational soldiers in Iraq, etc. Osama bin Laden must be condemned, not condoned, and Muslims need to quit supporting and sympathizing with him. Muslim nations need to quit their "America is the Great Satan" chants and "Israel must be destroyed" threats. Iran and Hammas need to quit attacking Israel on a PERMANENT basis, not just for a day or a few hours.

The Muslim community needs to stand up and rebuke Muslim terrorists and take responsibility for their own actions.

LAYLA, your response went off on a tangent on listing other terrorists, that doesn't prove/disprove/answer the question. If I say "why does Group A commit so many crimes" you can't respond by saying "Group B committed this, Group C did this crime," and so forth. You also failed to list your sources of where you obtained that information. I seriously doubt it all came out of your head. List the books or websites you plagarized it from so it will then become cited information.

Answer 8

Erase all the history books, delete all records that have this information. Change the hearts and minds of those Islamists who live for terrorism.
Stop the Madrasas from teaching that anyone that is not muslim, especially Americans, are satanic and animals, and that we should convert or die.

Answer 9

It's almost impossible, but people are worth it. When they claim Islam says to kill apostates, show them they got our Quran mixed up with their bible, and that our Quran says it's a matter between the invidual and God so leave them alone. When they say honor killing is from Islam, show them the hadith that says to kill the rapist and that the victim is not at fault nor shall she be punished for anything she went through. Then show them their bible that says to force the rape victim into a lifelong marriage with her rapist. When they say the Quran says to kill all non muslims, show them the verses directly before and after the quoted verses saying to live in peace and to not be troublemakers but only fight in self defense. Then show them their bible that says to kill entire villages and families except for 3 year old girls who are to be engaged to adult men through sexual intercourse. That's worked for me.

Answer 10

Layla put it in writing quite well.

However, there will always be those who refuse to learn about anything that isn't "Western" and will, therefore, always remain ignorant.

Those who refuse to learn can never be taught. And these are the only people I apply the terms "idiot" and "moron" to.

Answer 11

Read the Koran and then make that same statement.. they are commanded to slay the infidels who do not convert to Islam. None of them dare defy the command or will be considered infidels themselves and be treated accordingly.