Terrorism View As a Religion

When Terrorism became a religion

by Mohammad Metwalley

Over the world history, there were hundreds of religions and cults that people established either by the name of God, spirits, light or science.

These days, and to be accurate, after Al Qaida organization became something solid in 1989 since the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the fact that no one can denies, terrorism became a culture and a religion that we must accept its presence in the world we live in.

When the world accepted that some militants can perform an army and some countries even provided them with support that must have put a big question mark on ‘What’s after that war ends’.

The history of terrorism since 1998 attack on US embassy was a clear sign that the giant got out of the bottle nick and there is no way to get it back.

Terrorism becomes a hope for hopeless people who reached the phase that they have nothing to live for… they found a new hope and cause in participating in the fight for Islam fake causes that terrorism organizations talk about. 

Media always send the message that terrorism is some kind of intelligence work and conspiracy theory but the fact is, terrorism organizations and terrorists believe in what they do.

The question you should ask to better understand is ‘Why identified Terrorism is always linked to Islam?’

Because Islam religion declared Jihad in specific times during early days of Islam when Muslims were threatened by people of Mecca who saw in Islam a big enemy that must be eliminated, some people later in the 1980’s and maybe earlier (Muslim brotherhood organization was established in Egypt in 1928), made their own theories about Jihad and they started to classify people in 3 categories:

1. Muslims (people who fully agree with them)
2. Hypocrite (People who are Muslims but disagree with them)
3. Kuffar (People who are not Muslims)

That classification allowed them to later convince people who join to kill 2^nd and 3^rd categories because from their point of view they are threatening Islam and Muslim nation.

They took Ayat (phrases) from Holy Quran book and manipulated it’s explanations to convince themselves and people who will join later that killing is permitted in Islam.

Terrorism is something that appeared in the history of humanity but with different names and different causes but the common is that it has always looked for spreading in the whole world and takes the control.

Terrorists are slightly grouped but they are extremely connected

By the power of World Wide Web, spreading a message over to the whole world is not difficult or costly… you can spread any message over internet social networks, chat rooms, websites and the suitable person will get your message.

That is what terrorism organizations realized and that is how they are growing up and increasing day after day. 

Anyone around you; friend, relative or even your couple can be a terrorist and you will not realize until one day he/she will try to convince you to his/her cult or do Jihadi stuff, get captured or killed and appear on TV and news channels.

Fighting terrorism from a different point of view than the one that governments and intelligences systems see.

Terrorism is a disease and that is the main fact you should know to start fighting it.

Such as any disease, there are symptoms and later there are complications.

Having the knowledge of symptoms and complications as society knowledge published, studied and discussed over and over can turn out each member of the society to an early detection alert for terrorist born plus it will give the immunity against the terrorism disease.