March 28, 2024

TERRORISM AND ISLAM

islamic_terror_against_democracy_boston“Religion is the most powerful entity on earth. A phenomenon that has conscripted millions to give or sacrifice their lives without so much as a minuscule query about their chosen beliefs or particular ideology. And today thousands of years on despite the huge advent, discovery and the advance of science forensic or otherwise, millions are still prepared and equipped to fall or kill in the name of their God, their Holy Scriptures, their messengers, their prophets and their faith’.”
Cal Sarwar

The recent terrorists attacks in France by radical Islamists, using their religion as an excuse for their barbaric acts, brings to the fore how the majority of the western world continues to react.   As long as we persist to deny the obvious, both by our government and most of the media, we will continue to be subject to these heinous acts.   We are at war; more precisely militant Islam has declared war on us.   Calling what we are confronting as criminal acts, terror, or isolated incidents caused by a few radicals, will only increase the danger we face.   As Judaism and Christianity, Islam is practiced by different groups with different interpretations.   One of these groups has an ideological hatred to all that we see as “values” in the western world.   Their aim is only one, our total destruction and the reestablishment of the Ottoman Empire as they define it.   A clear objective is needed to fight Islamism because even as a minority of the population, they represent millions of the more of one billion Muslims, they are growing in numbers, hold power in States like Iran, and are supported by the likes of Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan among other Arab States.

After this latest attack in France, only President El-Sisi from Egypt voiced the outrage that every Muslim leader should have expressed, asking for condemnation of radical Islamists.   In our country we should not mince words, in order not to offend the majority of Muslims that practice Islam as a peaceful religion, because the only way that they will lose their fear of the radical elements among them is if they see us with a clear understanding of past history and present danger.   I am not a religious expert, but Christianity and Islam have much in common, as believing in one God, Virgin Mary, and the existence of Jesus, differing on their designation of Mohammed as the only messenger from God.   When the Ottoman Empire dominated the Middle East, and part of Europe, notable advances in mathematics, science, architecture, law, and art were achieved, and Christians and Jews lived peacefully as part of their community and able to practice their religion.   Only after the conquest of these territories by Napoleon and the West, in the dark ages of the Inquisition, did persecution of “non believers”, Jews and Muslims, was started, and studies of subjects deemed “heretic”, were forbidden.   We are not at war with Islam, or those who practice it as they have throughout history, but with a radical utopian ideology practiced by a minority of Muslims that use terror as a tactic to achieve their aims.   We have never hesitated to call religious radicals that have committed excesses, when false interpretations of Judaism or Christianity are stated as justification, let us not fall now into the “political correctness” trap refusing to use words like Islam, and Muslim, when they are appropriate, or we will never be able to defeat the forces of evil that are sworn to achieve our annihilation

Fernando J. Milanes, MD

 

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