Enough Already

I will never understand how those who commit acts of terror such as suicide bombers justify their actions to themselves. They claim to defend the name of Islam and yet they deface it. While they kill themselves and thousands of innocent people, they leave lives ruined, and the remaining Muslims around the world are left to attempt to clear up misconceptions. In my mind, there is no such thing as an Islamic extremist or radicalist because there is nothing Islamic about the abhorrent acts these people commit. They are political extremists, if anything. If one has a problem with a certain country or society, that is one thing. It is something else entirely when they prostitute the religion of Islam to achieve their political goals. I’m not saying that religion and politics are mutually exclusive. As we have seen with many of the revivalists whose work we have read, Islam and politics go hand in hand. However, no matter what, one must be sure of what Islamic principles stand for before acting so destructively and irrationally.