DEATH FOR APOSTACY IN ISLAM DISCUSSION:
So from reading Hadiths from Sunnah.com.. Well 6 strong ones
And i am somewhat 20 Chapters of Quran in by reading commentator Ibn Kathir Tafsir
I can assume apostacy is comparable to treason? Like trying to be against muslim community. But that if you dont outwardly speak out then you may repent if you find out its the right religion.
Or am i wrong with the context here?
"Apostasy" means abandonment of religious or political belief. (Oxford Dictionary).
You can understand why theists who devoutly believe that theirs is the correct religion might also believe that all other religions are wrong. Some religions don't draw the line and allow other religions to exist, but seek to exterminate them.
However, the vast majority of Islamics are peaceful people, and only a small percentage cause terrorism. The peaceful ones appeal to the world (or the part of the world that they live in) to have mercy and tar them with the same brush as terrorists.
The United States is still licking its wounds over the 911 attack, and Israel has had constant terrorist attacks. Israel tried using rubber bullets, in a humanitarian gesture to dispel terrorists who might harm Jews or Palestineans, to no avail. They found that the only deterrant was real bullets. Like the United States, they had a mandate to protect their people (all of their people, even if they were of a different faith).
It seems, today, that the vast majority of terrorist attacks come from the Middle East (largely Islamics). Most of those who flew into the World Trade Center were Saudi Arabian nationals, and some were Egyptian.
The response of the US was to blame any part of the Middle East for the terrorism, and they acted on vague hunches about who was involved in terrorism. The result was roughly 1,000,000 dead Iraqis, the death of Saddam (their leader) and his two sons and heirs to the kingdom, and destruction of many buildings and infrastructure. Oops....the US got the wrong country.
Even the Taliban of Afghanistan were not the enemy. In fact, 9 days after the 911 attack, the Taliban captured bin Laden and his key aides, and offered to turn them over to the United States if and only if the US could prove a connection to terrorism.
They had no idea that bin Laden was capable of terrorism, since he seemed like such a saint. He risked his own life (paid by the US Central Intelligence Agency) to repel Soviet incursions into Afghanistan, and everywhere that bin Laden went, he used his own wealth to buy tractors and drill wells, employ locals, and generallly improve living standards. How, they though, could a man so dedicated, brave, and kind be evil enough to do terrorism. Apparently bin Laden was "one of" the planners of the terrorist attack (911).
Bin Laden had been working with the US (as mentioned above) to repel Soviets. He was a close ally of CIA director (later president of the United States) George H. W. Bush. Under Bush's presidency, bin Laden attacked the World Trade Center, and attacked the Pentagon, and presumably was about to attack some target in Washington, D. C., but the plane went down when the passengers revolted (they said "lets roll)."
President W. Bush (son) and his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, were members of PNAC (Progress for a New Century, which was a Republican think tank that suggested that there was a possibility that three nations (later known as the Axis of Evil) that had the wealth and technical know-how to build nukes). In their lengthy manifesto, they suggested attacking this Axis of Evil (North Korea, Iran, and Iraq), but stated that they needed another Pearl Harbor type of attack to get the US public on their side.
Could it be that the 911 attack was this Pearl Harbor attack?
Surely it is well known that the
family of bin Laden was not questioned by the FBI (under orders of W. Bush and VP Dick Cheney), and the family was
allowed to fly out of the US back to the Middle East while all other planes in and out of the United States were grounded. Even Senator Edward Kennedy was grounded in Europe, unable to fly back to the United States during this crisis. The whole situation was highly suspicious....in fact, it stank like a rotting fish.
While it was true that a splinter group of Islamics did kill 3,000 people in the 911 attack, it is also true that the backlash of the United States appeared to be a lynch mob (at least by their mentality), and they killed 1,000,000 Iraqis (not to mention running up a huge bill for the war and killing thousands of US troops, and injuring many more).
Just who is the terrorist? The one who plotting the destruction of the Axis of Evil (and almost started a phony war with Niger over false info about Uranium yellow-cake presumably sold to Iraq)? Or were the 911 terrorists the only terrorists?
The New Testament (Christian) bible says that we should not pay attention to the
splinter in our neighbor's eye until we pay attention to the log in our own.
From all this I conclude that splinter groups commonly do cause terrorism, but they are not necessarily all Islamic. Some are Christian, and they have a mob mentality. They use Texas justice (hang 'em first, then figure out if they should be hung later).
Everyone (Islamics, Christians, and others) need to
abandon terrorism and lynch mob justice. We must consider diplomacy first rather than war. We must be careful not to embroil the entire world in a
world war (again), because, next time, it will last 15 minutes and will be fought with nukes (the whole world will be destroyed). War hurts all.
