THE THREAT
TO ISLAM
Islam
does not accept the idea, widespread amidst the West (mainly the non-Muslims), of
a boundary between the inner life of man and his public actions. This belief (i.e.
the Islamic belief that there is no boundary between the inner life of man and
his public actions) may become a sure force that will convince non-Muslims to
rediscover the link between daily life and a moral order. But in doing so it
goes against the current conventional Western wisdom. For some time already,
the very notion of Islam makes the non-Muslims tremble. They think that the
Muslim world is heading towards a confrontation with the other parts of the
world who do not share its beliefs. This thus makes the European and even the
US (Americans) very nervous. A quick analysis of the current situation where
Islam is seen as a blood-thirsty religion only reinforces this fear. But they
forget the many wrongs, the murders of poor and defenceless Muslims which they
committed in order to conquer lands and properties, but primarily to eradicate
Islam from these places.
In
Europe, more than twenty years ago, Bosnian Muslims were, for a long brutally
mistreated by the Serbians who theoretically are Christians. On the border
between Europe and Asia, Armenians Christians annihilated Azerbaijanis (Azeri) Muslims,
and Jews and Muslims to this day continue to kill each other in Palestine.
Further to the East, there is the brutality of the Indian army in Kashmir, and
the destruction in 1992 of the Ayodhya mosque by the Hindus. Such bitter
experiences suggest to the Muslims that the world is against them. If this is
the case, so they are against the world. This explains the xenophobia that
foreigners are murdered by terrorists who brandish Quranic verses in Iraq and
Syria and in other Islamic states.