Do Not Propagate Hate

I am so tired of reading raving-mad rantings against Islam. It is frightening how much hate there is the world. And that that hate is so easily pointed to one community of people.

Any person propagating hate and violence is a disgrace to whatever religion or nationality he professes to adhere to - actually he is a disgrace to humanity itself. And someone who makes one sweeping statement against a group of people certainly also is intellectually deficit. It is a sad truth that empty vessels make the most noise. And so it is also that people with only scant superficial knowledge seem to be screaming the loudest. And a whole lot of vitriolic nonsense gets around.

They say one fears what one does not understand. But obviously those who fear Islam have made up their minds to hate a religion they know absolutely nothing about. Anything can be misinterpreted when taken out of context; it could be a statement in a political speech, it could be a line of poetry, or it could be a pasage from Harry Potter, the Bible and yes, the Quran.

The Quran says "Fight in the way of Allah those who fight against you, but do not transgress. Allah does not love the transgressor." (2:190) And all people read is the 'Fight in the way of Allah'. Anyone who actually reads with an open mind can see that the main point of the quotation is to tell us not to transgress.

Anyone with an ounce of reading capacity knows that terrorism has nothing to do with religion - it is ALWAYS polictical. Whether it is the Crusades, the holdup at Mumbai hotels, the riots in Gujarat, the Hamas-Israel war, the postal anthrax scare in the US, or the badly named 'Islamic' fascism.

Religion is never the basis for such heinous, inhuman acts. It is just easy to rile up people, even create stereotypes, when they use the name of religion with such acts. Using religion as a pretext is an attempt of depraved brutes to justify their philosophy of hate - and make their agenda seem more encompassing than it is. Anyone with an iota of sense can see how far from any spirituality these people are.

Terrorism predicates itself on fear and violence, but its end goal is more insidious -it is promotion of hate. To loathe acts of violence is natural, and justified, even neccesary. But when such abhorrence spills over to include a community or a religion, it becomes oppression. When people blame a religion for the abhorrent acts of a few who associate themselves with it, it is plain and simple insanity. The insanity of propogating hate.

Be careful, my insane friends, that you do not become the enemy you so despise.