Quotes About Terrorism

“Islam prohibits the burning of animals whether dead or alive what more of humans! ISIS does not represent Islam

“So, as was completely predictable, the reaction to these shootings in Paris (which I clearly condemned) has been to re-print the said offensive cartoons over and over and over again. Thousands of newspapers, both in print and online, have shown those offensive cartoons to millions of people (whereas before, hardly a few thousand would have seen them).
Additionally, some cartoonists have now said that they would draw more and more offensive images as a result of this incident, in the name of ‘protecting free speech’ (one even claimed she would dedicate a cartoon a day for the next year to lampoon Islam and its prophet).

The newspaper in question, Charlie Hebdo, which had a circulation of around fifty thousand, will reprint its next edition, full of offensive images, in over a million copies, and it is pretty obvious that they will sell out.

(And as for the repercussions around the globe towards and against Muslims…that is a whole different topic).

Firstly, to the sympathizers of this attack: do you see what has come out of this violence? What good has it done anyone? What do you want to do next…continue killing people, and more people, so that they continue to get angrier and angrier at us?!

Secondly, to the rest of us: Can you imagine if a racist cartoon, or an anti-Semitic cartoon, caused some physical attack, that news agencies around the globe would reprint those cartoons?!
Somehow, when it comes to offensive images against Muslims, it becomes necessary to display those images continuously in order to make a point: “You had better allow us to say and do whatever we will, without the least care and concern of decency and morals!”

Again, this is NOT to justify these brutal attacks, but it is to point out the double standards that do seem to exist when it comes to mocking Islam. It will come as absolutely no surprise to us to find out that a satirist in the EXACT SAME newspaper was fired, and then put on trial, for an anti-Semitic article that he had written (See: French cartoonist Sine on trial on charges of anti-Semitism over Sarkozy jibe). And previously, I had quoted a story of a similar nature regarding the Danish cartoon controversy: the same newspaper had refused to print cartoons mocking the Holocaust.

There is no doubt that killing these cartoonists is not allowed (firstly, the entire issue of blasphemy laws and its application in the modern world of nation-states is being discussed by leading scholars, and there are multiple views on this; secondly, all those who quote incidents from the Seerah: I reiterate, it is impermissible for a person to take the ‘law’ into his own hands and be judge, jury and executioner even in an Islamic land - how much more so when Muslim minorities are living in a land that is not ruled by their laws).

At the same time, it is also idiotic to continue provoking a group of people who have a long list of their own internal and external political and social grievances that stretch back for many decades (here I mean the N. African Muslim population of France), and then expect that nothing will happen.

As usual, we are stuck between a rock and a hard stone. On the one hand, we have the excesses of our own internal angry followers, who always justify every violence because of what ‘they’ have done, and on the other hand we have the arrogance, intransigence and hypocrisy of segments of the Western world, who cannot see that they as well have a huge part to play in the rising tide of anger and violence.

Yasir Qadhi

“First of all, the old traditional binary categorisation of the world into “the abode of Islam” (dâr al-islâm) and “the abode of war” (dâr al-harb) had to be questioned. With the exception of a few literalist, traditionalist or politicised groups, no scholarly authority and no outstanding organisation uses those concepts anymore. Such terms as “abode of contract” (dâr al-`ahd or dâr al-`aqd), “abode of treaty” (dâr al-sulh) or “abode of predication” (dâr ad-da`wah) are now being used.

I have suggested the concept of “abode of testimony” (dâr ash-shahâdah) which expresses the idea that Muslims, like all people of faith and convictions, should strive to be “witnesses” of their message and principles through their presence and by behaving consistently with those principles. Such an appellation breaks the binary relation and, in a global world, it achieves reconciliation with Islam’s universal dimension: the whole world has become a space, an abode, of testimony.

The witness is no longer a stranger in the other’s world, neither is he linked to the other by a contract: he is at home, among his own kind, and he simply tries to be consistent with his beliefs and in harmony with the people with whom he lives and builds his future.

Tariq Ramadan

“We do not mix political Islam with terrorism for all Islam is based on freedom and rejects compulsion in all its shapes and forms that we see today, such as kidnapping, blowing up cars and airplanes or firing bullets at police stations. This is not Islam and not fundamentalism, it is crime committed by murderous criminals.

Islam is based on experimentation and persuasion and uses kindly invitation as its method and it does not raise a weapon except when countering an attack and it does not fight except to defend and restore someone's rights, it is the religion of mercy, affection, forgiveness, forbearance, love. It is based on peace, its greeting is peace and its soul is peace.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud

“The recent terrorist attack in Kenya is yet another despicable reminder of the reality of these neo-Kharijite groups.

What do they hope to accomplish with this bloodshed? Which Lord commanded them to do this? Which Book do they read in which it says to massacre innocents? Which prophet do they think they are defending, when they test people with the Prophet's (SAW) mother's name, and kill anyone who doesn't know her name?

Do they not realize that their very Lord, and their very Book, and their very Prophet (SAW), have nothing to do with their madness and fanaticism?

Anyone who brings in foreign policy here has truly lost the plot. This is the black-and-white mentality that has led to such fanaticism in the first place. We are opposed to the injustices of Western governments, but we are even MORE opposed to the injustices of Muslims, BECAUSE AS MUSLIMS THEY SHOULD KNOW BETTER, AND AS MUSLIMS THEY ARE REQUIRED TO REPRESENT THEIR FAITH.

The actions of these terrorists has nothing to do with the faith I believe in and subscribe to.

Yasir Qadhi

“When an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by bearded Arab gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “hostage.” But when an innocent man is kidnapped from his home by uniformed white gunmen and locked indefinitely in a room he is a “terrorist.” The world causes uproar over the former but is silent over the latter. “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” observed Martin Luther King.

Babar Ahmad

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