Is fair to judge all Muslims based on the actions of a few extremist misguided individuals?

Question

why do many non-Muslims do so, and why don't people try to look on the teachings on Islam first,

Whoever kills a soul, unless for a soul, or for corruption done in the land - it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one, it is as if he had saved mankind entirely

[Qur'an 5:32]

"…and seek not corruption in the earth; lo! Allah loveth not corrupters " (28:77)

Prophet Muhammad pbuh said:
"Anyone who kills a Non-Muslim who had become our ally will not smell the fragrance of Paradise."

Let there be no misunderstanding: Islam forbids the killing of innocent civilians, wherever and whoever they may be, in absolute terms and a true Muslim cannot be a terrorist

THERE IS NO ROOM FOR TERRORISM IN ISLAM

check: http://islamdenouncesterrorism.com

I meant is it fair

Answer 1

Dear All

May God Bless all of us to keep us on the right path of those whom He Blessed and keep ua away from the path of those who earned His Wrath Amen.

Well Brother "cthemagi" has provided the List of Muslim Terrorist Organizations world over.I should thank him that he did not say all the Muslims are Terrorists.

OK, What is Terrorism? I think this need to be redifined now as this term is being applied only to Muslims, while Non Muslim Terrorists are given respectable and praise worthy names. Please read the following carefully and your comments are welcomed.

Modern Terrorism Explained

While people might give different definitions of terrorism, my understanding of Terrorism is as follows:

1. Killing innocent men, women and children and damaging their dwellings, who were not even involved in the conflict between the parties.

2. Creating a situation by killing a person or few from their own group and religion and plotting it in such a way, so as to give an understanding that this act or crime was carried out by another group. This will result in creating tension and riots to kill innocent people of other group and damage their properties and source of living.

3. Another well-known and most affective tool is to desecrate a place of worship of a particular community to make them come into action. When the affected community gets enraged and comes on the roads; the persons who actually desecrate the religious place and waiting for this to happen and well organized with the support of law enforcing authorities will oppress that community.

This strategy is being used mostly everywhere for the sake of material gains, political gains based upon hatred towards others against the humanity.

4. The above strategy is being used by, individuals, groups and even Governments of different countries and its results of damage and sufferings are in proportion accordingly.,

5. Now leaving aside the culprits who really started this sedition, common people from their own religious group shall get instigated attack, killing and looting the other opposite group who are innocent and their crime is only that they are from the other religion or group. Now it is going to be a chain reaction and there shall be people from the other group involving themselves in the same activities to inflict on the other group.

6. In the end, the result will be the suffering of minorities and they will be suppressed, by the majority group, by their governments, law enforcing authorities and finally the court of law, where selected are awarded with death punishments and others shall go for life imprisonment or punishment for years.

7. This will also have ongoing effect on their families and their children who will suffer and might even start hating other group, decide to take revenge. Revenge on whom?
No one knows the real culprits or the culprits could be their own Governments. Now the persons affected go crazy and do not care for their lives and start killing looting the innocents of other group and the story goes on and on between the groups to make their life miserable.

8. There is another example; two antisocial elements gamblers, murderers who does not care for faith or religion but of different religions get into a rift, fight and murder. Now this becomes a religious issue. Politicians who take religion as their weapon make use of this opportunity and killing and looting of the related community starts. Even the Law enforcing authorities where among them there is no proportionate representations collude with the majority group and further make minorities suffer.

9. Another important aspect of terrorism is the one sided Media. They work for the interest of their parties and add fuel to the fire to aggravate the riots.

10. There is another strategy set up by the law enforcing authorities of the Governments. The target the persons who are from antisocial elements, or even emotional leaders of the minority group visible by their speeches and demonstrations against the atrocities committed by the other groups. These undercover law-enforcing authorities themselves approach such persons and offer arms and ammunitions to enable them to take actions in revenge. When those people are trapped and buy those weapons from them, the law enforcing authorities conduct operation and arrest them with weapons and ammunition in their possession, thereby there is no chance for them to escape at all. Next day you will read in national newspapers on headlines about the wonderful vigilance and bravery of the police and they will be awarded too. Sometimes such sting operations will be conducted in higher level, so as to blame the government of other countries too.

11. Every country has their own unit with all provisions of money, arms, ammunition and men in their countries as well as other countries to start terrorism or sedition in other enemy countries either to create unrest, weaken or topple the government in that country with all the above mentioned strategies. As a government is involved in it, the losses inflicted shall be high in proportion.

I will call every thing mentioned above “TERRORISM”

Now who is Responsible for it?

It is the party, who prepares the strategy and plans to start the trouble and that party always remain safe and achieve their objectives and goals, while from targeted group, innocent people shall suffer .

The Democracy did not solve this problem and it will not unless the people are well educated and are aware of these maneuvers. Unless government and law enforcing authorities are honest, impartial, and proper representation of all communities is given in government and law enforcing authorities.

Now coming back to the handling of such situations by Muslims, I shall place the following:

Terrorism of any kind is not permitted in Islam. Allah has mentioned in Holy Book Quran that Fitna is more severe than a murder.

“Fitna” is a term in Arabic for tumult, terrorism, conspiracy and oppression.

Therefore, Muslims are not supposed to answer the Terrorism with Terrorism, Oppression with Oppression and we should not kill innocent people as per the command of Allah.

Allah has also mentioned in Holy Quran; killing an innocent person is like killing the whole of humanity and saving a person’s life is like saving the whole of humanity.

As per commandments of Allah only the oppressors and invaders are to be confronted in defense and again they are not supposed to make any excesses. Killing of innocent men, women and children is forbidden and damaging property is not allowed.

When Muslims are ruled by Oppressors, they should leave that country and if they cannot they should bear it, face it with the prevailing laws and if that does not help, place their complaints before the creator Allah. Allah says the cry of the oppressed reaches Him without any barriers. Let Allah take care of the oppressors in this world and hereafter. After all our life in this world is short, let us constraint ourselves in the absence of leadership, support and power.

Trouble started by a government of another country is to be handled by their government and not by individuals taking law into their hands.

As per the sayings of our Holy Prophet peace be on him, A Muslim is one whose neighbors are safe from his tongue and hands. He even stressed a Muslim is filling his stomach with fire if his neighbor is hungry. A neighbor is a neighbor irrespective of his religion as per him and he said forty houses on either side of his house is a neighbor.

Again, Our Holy Prophet peace be on him said: A Muslim is one who feels whatever is good for him is good for others and whatever is bad for him is bad for others too.

Now tell me Brother; Does Terrorism fits in Islam?

Even though many of the points mentioned above were placed in Websites and told by responsible religious scholars, the Media will not propagate them. Hence the non- Muslim community is not aware of it and they think all the Muslims are supporting Terrorism and it is permitted in their religion of Islam and all the Muslims are Terrorists. Allah Forbid.

Your comments are welcomed. If convinced, please pass on this message of understanding to others both Muslims and Non Muslims.

Answer 2

No it's not fair to judge an individual for the actions of another person that they have no control over, are not aware of that persons intentions and are not contributing to the actions of that person.

I can name many groups that have one faction or minority that acts outisde of the belief system.... but ultimately people need to look into their hearts and ask themselves if they will accept respncibility for even the sins of their mother, father, children or siblings....let alone someone in another country, speaking another language or from another walk of life that may or may not have read the same book they did....or pray in the same fashion.... in your heart you know that is not a fair assumption

Answer 3

The problem is the most Islamic countries don't come out and openly condamn these terrorist organizations. When the biggest Islamic countries openly condone the idea of destruction to Israel, spit on the international community concerning the woman rights, call the entire Western free countries as infidels, and still hold on to the belief that Holocaust never actually happened, how can we not judge them any other way?

Muslims need to work on solving their own problem before worrying about their image and how other non-Muslim thinks of them.

Answer 4

Muslim friends: I understand your frustration with the sensationalist media -- believe me, I do. However, I am puzzled when a Muslim terrorist commits a heinous act and the immediate reaction of mainstream Muslims is to start bashing the newspapers for "tarnishing the image of Islam". Understand this simple fact: it is the kidnappings and the beheadings and the train-bombings that tarnish the image of Islam. It is the terrorist acts against civilians -- like the one against children in Beslan -- which tarnish the image of Islam. So direct your righteous anger where it properly belongs -- against the extremists in your midst, few though they may be. Perhaps the media deserves its share of blame -- but that share is a lot smaller than that of the terrorists themselves.

As for "fair", that term is just irrelevant here. There was nothing "fair" about Muslim extremists massacring 350 school children in Beslan -- and I doubt the fact that those extremists did not represent the majority of Muslims provided much consolation to the victims.

A few Muslims are extremists. Then there are a few who don't care. Then there are a few who acquiesce in such actions, though they do not participate in them. Then there are a few who simply refuse to acknowledge the acts of Muslim extremists. Then there are a few who defend the indefensible. Then there are a few who try to minimize the nature of what a few Muslim extremists do (by, among other things, describing them as merely "misguided"). Then there are a few whose reaction to Muslim extremism is to decry their own victimization first, and without acknowledging the fate of the victims. I am willing to believe that each of these groups represents a minority, but in the eyes of non-Muslims, they really do add up.

Muslimah: I realize you are well-intentioned, and I understand your frustration, but please, please -- don't refer to these people as "misguided". Making the wrong moral choice which culminates in the deliberate murder of defenseless civilians is not an "error" in the same sense as, for example, getting on the wrong train or buying the wrong size dress. These people don't do what they do by inadvertence or simple misapprehension, but consciously and purposely. They are fully-fledged human beings, capable of rational thinking and free will. They are no more "misguided" than Hitler and his thugs were.

Answer 5

No religion promotes Terrorism.

Hitler killed 6 Million Jews. Then would u blame Christianity for this.

Islam is religion of Peace. If few people are donig for their own materialistic gains, then it doesn't mean that all Muslims are terrorists like Hitler in Christianity...

Answer 6

If there is no room for terror in Islam, then why do mosques all over the world serve as defacto breeding grounds for terrorists?

And why is it that your actions speak louder than your words, all religious texts are open for interpretation, and the vast MAJORITY of Muslims seem to interpret those words above as metaphors these days.

So, no, I don't buy your peaceful rhetoric, steer clear of me and you won't have to find out how I interpret your religion's text.

Answer 7

those verses that call for peace were from the period of islam where muhammad had no political power. When he became more powerful he started to become ruthless and unfortunately the violent verses of the quran over rule the previous ones

Answer 8

why all the hate? Gs cant we get along? no it is not fair but there is a thing called reputation and you can mess it up easier then you can make it good. all the good answers seem to have more bad ratings which is my way of telling they are right.

Answer 9

There exists in this world a religion that, over the course of the last couple of thousand years, has systematically and ruthlessly attempted to quash all non-believers. It has attacked, or has caused to be attacked, very many countries. Its believers have raped, pillaged, tortured and plundered some of the greatest nations of this earth. This so-called religion has been directly responsible for more wars and atrocities then any other, fact. Is it fair to judge them? Is it fair to attack their belief systems? Should they be judged on the sins of the past? Should the practice of their faith be banned? I am of course talking about Christianity and, even as a practicing Christian, if I was a Muslim, and was aware of Christianitys history of violence and shame, I would certainly not call my extremism 'misguided'. The vast majority of Muslims are peace loving. It is us I believe that should be judged...

Answer 10

it is not right to label all muslims just bcz some ppl are wrong doers, terrorism is forbidden in islam, and a lot of ppl say that muslims just say that they dont support terrorism , but they actually do i would like to ask them hitler was a christian, he killed 6 milllion ppl , i dont think all the the muslim terrorist combined from the begenning of time to this date killed 6 million, so shld i call all christians mass murders just bcz of hitlers action, i bet they wouldnt like it, so why this biasness.?

Answer 11

Because most of them depend of them media for their information and we all know the media are biased. Most of those non Muslims who bash Islam and carry great hate to Muslims have never met a Muslim in life. They assume all Muslims are like Bin Laden and they go further interrpreting Suras from the Quran as they wish without even looking for the true meaning of them.