Think before accusing....

Submitted by Hanan (Malaysia), Jul 14, 2005 at 01:49

It is certainly sad to see a majority of westerners who are ignorant and hostile towards Islam nowadays. I think CNN, BBC and Fox News have made a good job at twisting the image of a true Muslim.

You see, the problem when we speak of Jihad is we tend to see it in a barbaric ways. As long as man exists there will always be war and that's a fact. The thing that separates a violent and a just war is something that Jihad can explain.

I myself am a Muslim living in Malaysia and used to live in a peaceful country. I certainly don't want war. Ask anyone who is rational in this world do they want war? Certainly no! Ask the children, women, men, old folks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine do they love to be in the battlefield? Of course not!

Many times it's just easy to say that this Muslim is an extremist, terrorist because they kill your people. Who drags them to kill your people? And drove some of these Arabs out of sanity? It's your secular, arrogant government that is! And that is why we, Muslim, need Jihad. Because it dictates us to FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT!

When you want to mock or to accuse someone, try to imagine yourself in their situation. Sometimes an action cannot be accepted, but can be understandable. i.e : terrorist

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