Hi Fellow Islamophobe,
Hope I have met you in a good mood and sound composure. May the good Lord bless your intuition and grant you sound logic as your go through my epistle to you.
This letter was written to you due to a comment by one of us which I saw on Social Media recently. The comment was innocently structured. The innocence was rather irritating. It was way too innocent, lacking all convictions- Our fellow compatriot opined that ISLAM IS TERRORISM because the name of Allah is often chanted before acts of terrorism are executed.
Even as an Islamophobe, it didn't still sound fully logical to me. I pondered and wondered that can it be possible that Muslims are really the ones that have perpetuated all acts of terrorism across all times and spaces, all over the Universe. So, I decided to take a walk around the world peeping into areas of terror attacks and groups that are NOT ISLAMIC.
I hoped to find nothing but alas, I found so much that cannot be exhausted via this medium. At least not today.
Forgive me as I only focused on the other major religion alone as we have only two major religions in the world, Christianity and Islam.
So please join me as we peruse terrorist groups that are NOT ISLAMIC around the world:
1. INDIA
A) Tripura (Rebellion)
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), is a rebel group that seeks the secession of Tripura, North-East India, and is a proscribed terrorist organizationin India. Group activities have been described as Christian terrorists engaging in terrorist violence motivated by their Christian beliefs. The NLFT includes in its aims the forced conversion of all tribespeople in Tripura to Christianity. The NLFT says that it is fighting not only for the removal of Bengali immigrants from the tribal areas, "but also for the tribal areas of the state to become overtly Christian", and "has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda". The NLFT is listed as a terrorist organization in the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002. The state government contends that the Baptist Church of Tripura supplies arms and gives financial support to the NLFT.
B) Nagaland
The Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) is also a Christian Naga nationalist Militant group operating in North India. The main aim of the organization is to establish a sovereign Christian state, "Nagalim" unifying all the areas inhabited by the Naga people in Northeast India and Burma.[The organization's slogan is "Nagaland for Christ". Its manifesto is based on the principle of Socialism for economic development and a Baptist Christian religious outlook ‘Nagaland for Christ’.
Now, let us turn left and branch at God's Own Country:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
In 2011, analyst Daryl Johnson of the United States Department of Homeland Security said that the Hutaree Christian militia movement possessed more weapons than the combined weapons holdings of all Islamic terror defendants charged in the US since the September 11 attacks. Waoh! How come I never saw this ranted on CNN. Never mind!
In 2015, Robert Doggart, a 63 year old mechanical engineer, was indicted for solicitation to commit a civil rights violation by intending to damage or destroy religious property after communicating that he intended to amass weapons to attack a Muslim enclave in Delaware County, New York.
Okay, okay, maybe he is under a 'spell'.
In November 2015, Robert Lewis Dear killed three and injured nine at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dear voiced on several occasions his support for radical Christian views and interpretations of the Bible, and praised people who attacked abortion providers, saying they were doing "God's work."
Now let us come back home to Mama Africa:
And let us begin from the centre...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (Under Djotodia Administration)
Christian militia groups destroyed almost all mosques in the Central African Republic unrest.In 2014, Amnesty International reported several massacres committed by the Anti-balaka against Muslim civilians, forcing thousands of Muslims to flee the country.Other sources report incidents of Muslims being cannibalized.
UGANDA
The Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism, it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations. LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.
Does the recitation of Bible verses sound familiar? Like ISIS chanting some Arabic words while murdering? Okay.
Now let's have a cursory look at your theory again, that Islam is Terrorism because they mention Allah's name and so on. Does it have any credibility?
Can I be right to counter-opine that Christianity is Terrorism LRA fighters wear rosaries and recite passages from the Bible before acts of terrorism?
No, I cannot be right. It is a baseless and illogical theory. An inconclusive conclusion.
BOTTOM LINE
No religion can ever, should ever be defined by the actions of a section of his adherents. I have never had a Christian neighbor who is a terrorist per se. And I'm sure you have never been bombed by muslim neighbors before, lest we won't even be here making biased and uninformed vituperations.
When a crime is committed against humanity, the criminal should be punished without criminalizing his entire race, religion, tribe or country.
NOW...
Fellow Islamophobe, do you know why you and many others are ignorant of all these facts we came across on our stroll around the world?
Simply because it is none of your business. And why am I aware? It is my business to find out and help blind people see the light. The light about controversial things. The truth about lies.
Am I doing the Lord's work. Yes!
©2016
Abayomi Ahmed
Tuesday, 12th July, 2016.
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