ISIS cannot be destroyed through military operations: Terror will only cease with the collapse of its ideology - By Harun Yahya From initially talking of bringing ‘democracy’ to the region, the USA – which has been fighting radical Islamist organizations ever since the September 11 attacks – is now talking about ‘eradicating’ ISIS. It is of course impossible to ignore the contribution that America has made to the building of peace in various parts of the world, such as Kosovo. The sensitivity it displays on the subject of supplying humanitarian aid to almost everywhere in the world, despite its own economic problems, is also praiseworthy. There is also no doubt that democracy needs to come to Islamic lands and that the violence of ISIS needs to cease to exist for the sake of world peace. The important thing, however, is how this is to be done. ...... 1. All kinds of military operation, including air strikes, just further anti-Americanism. 2. Although killing off the leaders of terror organizations is presented as an effective technique by some military analysts, looked at from a wider perspective, no results are actually obtained from it at all. 3. In order to break the spiral of terror, socioeconomic improvements need to be made and policies such as ensuring the implementation of democratic processes clearly need to be brought to the fore in regions where there is intense terrorist activities. 4. President Obama’s emphasizing that ISIS is not representative of Islam is a most valuable and important step: However, the ideology that ISIS does represent needs to be accurately identified. Indeed, ISIS does not represent Islam and Muslims, but unfortunately many of the values it espouses are based on interpretations found in basic Islamic works. 5. At the root of the current turmoil in the Islamic world lies the fact of an abandonment of the Qur’an and that people are living by a religion based largely on false knowledge that does not appear in the Qur’an. Indeed the Prophet Mohammed’s only complaint about Muslims in the Qur’an is that “…they treat this Qur’an as something to be ignored.” (Surat al-Furqan, 30) 6. If we want a spirit based on love, compassion, pluralism, understanding and affection to prevail across the Islamic world, the way to bring this about is a return to the moral values of the Qur’an, which have been ignored for centuries. 7. It is therefore clear what needs to be done; to expose, with evidence from the Qur’an, the invalidity of the information that ISIS and other radical terror groups use as supposed evidence and that appears in various Islamic sources.Thousands of young Europeans and Americans who have joined ISIS can be won back through education and by revealing the truth instead of error, not by killing tens of thousands of people in the Middle East and raining bombs down on them. 10. It would be a very good idea for Muslim countries to be included in the coalition to be set up against ISIS. However, it must not be forgotten that a harsh and radical concept of Islam, similar to that of ISIS, also prevails in many of the countries in that coalition. Beheadings as capital punishment are carried out in those countries, women are treated as second-class citizens and freedom of thought and expression is routinely trampled underfoot. It is therefore impossible for the mindset that impose a ruthless lifestyle on its own peoples to fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria or to provide the peoples of other regions with the peace they long for. Surely there are reasonable, rational and modern leaders in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. However, most of the time these people are forced to give in to the demands of the fundamentalists living in those countries. For this reason, it is paramount that these leaders are supported and made stronger. If the USA is to forge an alliance it must be with Muslims of the Qur’an, and it must develop common strategies with them. 11. The Muslim world, and especially the Middle East, is home to many different ethnic cultures, beliefs and values. These all lived side by side in great harmony for hundreds of years. Many political commentators are agreed that the borders drawn and the new countries established in the wake of the First World War are today a problem for the region: That is essentially a correct assessment. What would also be wrong is to draw up new borders on the basis of different ethnic identities or sects that would simply break the Middle East up into smaller components. What the Middle East, with its hundreds of sects, beliefs and ethnicities, needs is not new micro-states in perpetual conflict with one another, but a union such as the European Union and a spirit of alliance..... Read more: newsrescue/isis-destroyed-military-operations-terror-will-cease-collapse-ideology/#ixzz3DZ1SAFWT
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:38:43 +0000
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