Islam, West, Violence and Islamophobia

By Kaniz Fatma, New Age Islam 6 January 2024 Islamophobes portray Islam as a threat by portraying radicalization of religious Muslims, disregarding peaceful Islamic teachings and human values, and diverting attention from West's crimes against the Islamic world. They receive a lot of help in this venture from Islamists and Takfiri Muslims who present Islam as an ideology of political domination rather than a spiritual path to salvation, one of the many that Allah Subhan Ahu Ta'ala has bequeathed to humanity through thousands of prophets appointed in different lands in all the times that humanity has been here on earth since Prophet Adam Alaih Is Salam. ---- In this article, we are focused on the nefarious activities of Islamophobes in denigrating Islam and portraying it as a religion of terror. Taking their cue from the traditional Islamist theology and its modern propagators in the ISIS and Al-Qaeda, Islamophobes have worked hard to create the impression that Islam and extremism go hand in hand. They employ every tactic to demonstrate that the radicalization of religious Muslims is a result of Islamic teachings. Their objective is merely to show their enmity against Islam and defame it across the world. They ignore the noble teachings of Islam and the values of Muslims, focusing only on narratives that show the early Muslims brandishing their swords in defence of themselves and against injustice. They do not, however, want the general people to be aware of Islam's admirable principles. They don't want to consider that Islam permitted the early Muslims to brandish swords because of religious persecution. Their only goal is to portray Islam as a threat to the broader public. What drives Islamophobes to repeatedly engage in such labour? An Urdu writer said, "This is a cleverly thought-out plan that attempts to divert attention from the crimes the West has perpetrated upon the Islamic world". Think back to Afghanistan and Iraq following 9/11. Islamophobes emerged, claiming that the troops of the US and Europe had invaded Muslim countries to establish peace and portraying “Muslims as barbarians from every aspect”. They just put effort into fanning the fire. But they repeatedly assert that Muslims are to blame for the breakdown of international harmony, as if 9/11 had happened in a vacuum. Even in Muslim societies today, things like beards, veils, Jihad, and madrasahs are derided and associated with extremism or terrorism because of the blame put on them by this potent propaganda. ----- Kaniz Fatma is a classic Islamic scholar and a regular columnist for New Age Islam. URL: ://newageislam.com/muslims-islamophobia/islam-west-violence-islamophobia/d/131461 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism