Me too. I guess for some people peace means to slaughter those who don't fit your agenda of peace
(religion).
Well, in the case of Bin Laden the Qur'an was a mandate for Jihad (aka "struggle"). Everything he did as a terrorist zealot was in the name of service to Allah and his commitment to what
he interpreted as Islam. And all of that was derived from what
he thought the Qur'an inspired as a struggle against what he believed were ideals intended to bring his people out of what others saw as the stone age, and into the 20th and 21st century, wherein rights, equality and freedom could be enjoyed by all.
As opposed to what his ultra right wing conservative Wahabbi sectarian values imagined was proper in enslaving body, mind and spirit. Especially those of women and of course girls, so they'd be subdued early on as they grew to womanhood.
Osama was a terrorist and an extremist zealot, however it's not unusual for certain mentalities to corrupt a faith into their own notions of how it should rightly be applied as a political ideology as well.
There are terrorist Christians who use the most offensive scriptures in a Bible so as to further their psychotic agenda. Anyone who accepts first that they can be inspired by a higher power, by any name under the banner of any faith in it, to do it's will at it's direction, is capable of just about anything. Including abdicating their personal responsibility for such deviant behavior and claiming instead that their actions were, "god's will".
Unfortunately, in the case of Bin Laden, his death was simply a matter of cutting one head off the Hydra. There are many other heads that were ready for that day, especially given he was physically infirm at the start of it and not a young man when all this in these last 10 years transpired. It's a mission, in the name of God and the "Struggle"(Jihad)
That makes for a very dangerous future and one that the terrorist zealot Muslim authors, while their deviant violent agenda paints every Muslim with the same image and likeness. Which is wrong, and yet possible because the peaceful Muslims who adamantly disagree with such terrorist acts aren't as vocal as the terrorists who garner the attention to their cause.Not to mention here in the States, there are Muslims who attend various Mosques around the country who will claim, if one asks them, that it is not theirs to judge what someone else, meaning a fellow Muslim, believes is their political ideology or struggle against the west. Because everything that terrorist Muslims do, is predicated upon what they interpret from the Qur'an that inspires.
The fact, despite what is said in the article below, is that Islam is not a religion. It is first and foremost a political ideology. And no religion of "peace" is capable then of Fatwa, Jihad or the edicts described by Sharia Law. Which only applies among Muslims. Unless of course we're talking about Sharia finance.
It's like any other man made religion. It's up to the individual to live the example of what the tenets inspire.
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Jihad, War, Terrorism, and Peace in Islam
