Islam means total submission to the God i.e. Allah. And, they profess that it is the only pure way to attain salvation. But apart from obvious religious reasons, I am trying to present the political usefulness of being a Muslim in contemporary period.
First, if you are a Muslim then you are certainly safe from Islamic terrorist. (not in Iraq though!) Most of the threatening warnings or messages from Islamic terrorist before or after deadly attacks usually warn Muslim people to stay out of the intended targets or affected areas. The false sense of unity that Islamic terrorists try to imbibe among Muslims throughout the world serves their purpose of creating destabilization among non-Muslims and keep tab on Muslims. With explosion of internet and media, even the educated Muslims believe in this Muslim unity. If history is any precursor then Muslims were never united. Within fifty years after Prophet Muhammad the division began in Muslim community. And, though fighting’s between Shi’s and Sunnis are known, other Islamic sects such as Sufis and Ahamadis are constantly persecuted by the rest of the Islamic communities.
Second, you are legitimately free to attack anyone with anything. You can attack US, UK, India and Israel because they are all Satan’s. In fact, you can attack every non-Muslim as each of them is a Kafir and there by a Satan. Interestingly, Islamic organization around the globe, particularly, in US boast about the ‘peaceful’ nature of Islam. But onus to prove the secular credentials and peaceful nature invariably falls on the non-Muslim community. If you are ready to accept rights of Muslims in a country that has Muslims as minorities then Islam is peaceful otherwise they can legitimately call Jihad. And, if the Muslims are in majority then unless the religious minorities are ready to forgo their religious as well as human right they are constantly under threat of persecution and forceful proselytization.
The thing is that people are afraid of Muslims because they have a billion people to create trouble and sizable of them are sprinkled in virtually every country. Vote bank politics is rampant in the countries with parliamentary democracies and Muslims in these countries use this tool to further their agenda. They usually exclude themselves from any sort of development and successfully portray themselves as victims. Also, most of the non-Muslim world seriously wants to catch up Industrialization and improve their life standard and to attain that they don’t want conflicts. All though, same can be said about majority of the Muslim population, the results are contrary to that.
It’s quite fashionable for Muslim leader around the globe to give US’s foreign policy as a reason behind current surge of Muslim fanaticism. But, WTC was attacked in 1993 even though then, US intervention in Bosnia saved scores of Muslims. Similarly, Afghanistan could defend itself from Russians only because of US’s military as well as monetary help. And, casual glance at present geo-politics and it is unmistakably clear that more Muslims are killed by their fellow Muslim brethren. Sunnis slaughtering Shi’s in Pakistan. Sunnis and Shi’s slaughtering each other in Iraq and Shi’s and Sunnis both killing Kurds in Iraq. And Arab Muslims ethnically cleansing black Muslims in Sudan. The list is disturbing and much brutal than American conquest of Iraq.
But sadly, Muslim community is fast becoming like a tumor to the world health. It seems that they don’t want to progress and they won’t allow anyone to progress either. Apart from few Islamic countries like Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia, most of the Islamic countries are failure at best and dangerous at worst. At this point they may be able to point Oil weapon to everyone but that’s not going to last for long and the consequences after that will be horrifying.
