Submitted by MOHAMAD NOZZI (Singapore), Apr 21, 2009 at 04:01
My final words to Plato:
To my observance from muslims' countries, such as, Middle East, India as well as Indonesia, I've found some constraint in the so-called, holy war, in these countries to prove that even Muslim extremists' countries do not have full support on the so-called, Holy War. This proves that the so-called, holy war, is most of the times directed from residences of Muslim countries. This is obvious in Indonesia riots in which Muslims fight against non-Muslims to destroy shops and etc.
The so-called, holy war, has been found most of the time between Muslim countries and other non-Muslim countries, such as, Muslim refugees from Iraq or etc. to USA. I ponder why is it that the holy war should not be within their own countries so as to support fully holy war by supplying destructive weapons, such as, guns, riffles, missiles, tanks and etc., to all muslim countries for the attack against non-muslim families and non-muslim governments/polices within their own countries. This proves that muslim countries somehow and rather do not have full support on holy war within their countries or else each muslim family could own destructive weapons to destroy any non-muslim within their countries. Or in other words, these Muslim extremists that encourages 'figh' in Muslim countries do not fully comply what they have taught in their interpretation of the Holy Quran. For instance, if violence between muslims and non-muslims is legalised by their Government, horror will certainly fill the country since you could see muslim extremist carries destructive weapon, such as, riffle, to look around in his/her country so as to locate non-muslims for their destruction.
We, moderate Mulsims, certainly would not welcome violence, vandalism and etc. since this is against what the Holy Quran that mentions what Allah is. Allah is the Most Merciful. We have to be merciful to non-Muslims to convince non-Muslim that Muslim is the right religion and that the only way to escape from punishment from Allah on the Last Judgment Day is to repent to become Muslims. Again we, too, have to set good morales to non-Muslims so that in time to come, they would repent and turn to Allah then.
Conclusion: We, moderate Muslims, want to be merciful since Allah is merciful. We want to be merciful since we want more non-Muslims to be saved from the last judgment day. We want to be merciful and that is why we want to reach out to many non-muslims so that they could be saved. We want to be merciful since we like to present good image to non-muslims so that they would feel that muslims are good that they would repent to turn back to Allah. Lastly we want to be merciful since Allah is the most merciful.
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