Islam Essay Research Paper the Islamic Congress

Islam Essay, Research Paper

the Islamic Congress’s president, Mohamed Elmasry.

Mr. Elmasry said there are bad Muslims just as there are bad Christians and Jews. “We

treat them as such and so should you. But Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims have a

religious duty to be tolerant of other faiths and other ideologies.”

Mr. Elmasry said journalists need to differentiate between the peaceful teachings of Islam

and the claims of some Muslim extremists that their actions are justified by their

interpretations of Islam.

He likened the situation of Canadian Muslims today to that of Canadian Jews 50 years

ago. “Jewish children were being (wrongly) called Christ-killers just as Muslim children

are called terrorists today.”

In their letter to the editor in the April 27 issue of the College Hill Independent, Jumana

Musa and Shadi Nahvi made some excellent points. They rightly asserted that the Western

press tends to portray Arabs and Muslims according to stereotypes and these myths persist

partly due to Western popular ignorance about Arabs and Muslims.

Since the Muslims students at Brown condemned the bombing of a Tel Aviv bus last year,

I am learning to separate the handful of Muslim and Arab extremists who commit terrorist

attacks against Israeli and Jewish civilians from the millions of Muslim believers who do

not participate in this violence and sometimes express opposition to it. Since I began

interacting with Muslims students through the kosher/hallal meal plan this year, I am

changing my perceptions of Muslims and seeing them as people instead of abstractions.

I think that many, many people in the United States and in western countries, in Europe,

are afraid of a monster called Islam. And as the honorable Congressman Dana

Rohrabacher said, it is an insult to consider the whole of Muslims, to take them into one

side, and make them extremists. Really it is not correct. It is a little bit insulting.

What is the definition of extremism. We can see in all of history: even when the first

settlers came to the United States they were from different countries; Spain, England,

France, European Countries. They were fighting on this land and fighting with the Indians.

Do we call this extremism. A fight for a better living, which you understand you are doing

not for a religious motive, is not extremism. Extremism in Islam, or in religion, is when

you use religion to label intolerance, to turn from religion and take ideas that you can

extract for yourself, or deduce for yourself, and use to make a militant movement and

disturb the peace in your country or around the world. That is called “extremism,” and

“Islamic Extremism.” But a movement for better living, that is not extremism.

These people nowadays are developing two ways of understanding the situation of Islam.

From one side they think that they have to reform it; it is a duty on them, they have been

brainwashed to think that they have to cleanse the world of devils and demons and of

countries that suppress them, oppress them, and try to shut them down.

Logicians argue that one cannot pass a judgment on something unless one has a clear

conception of it, because the unknown and the undefined cannot be judged. Therefore, we

first have to determine what “religious ,extremism” means before we can condemn or

applaud it. We can do so by considering its reality and its most distinguishing

characteristics. Literally, extremism means being situated at the farthest possible point

from the center. Figuratively, it indicates a similar remoteness in religion and thought, as

well as behavior. One of the main consequences of extremism is exposure to danger and

insecurity.! Islam, therefore, recommends moderation and balance in everything: in belief,

ibadah, conduct, and legislation.

Islam is frequently misunderstood and may even seem exotic in some parts of today’s

world. Perhaps this is because religion no longer dominates everyday life in Western

society; whereas, for Muslims, Islam is life. Muslims make no artificial division between

the secular and the sacred.

bin laden: “The treacherous attack has confirmed that Britain and America

are acting on behalf of Israel and the Jews, paving the way for

the Jews to divide the Muslim world once again, enslave it and

loot the rest of its wealth,” the US magazine quotes bin Laden

saying.

What particularly interested me in the report was the military demand that terrorism be

eliminated and extremism be abolished. Both terrorism and extremism, however, seem to

include, at least in their minds, most of the features of normal Muslim life. Following this

line of reasoning, extremism and Islam become two faces of the same coin. And this,

surprisingly, was being broadcast by a Muslim Gulf state.

Is familiarity with the Holy Qur’an a mark of extremism. Is calling upon young people to

pray in the mosques a mark of radicalism. I

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