Peace be upon you brothers & sisters,
I've been reading lots about terrorism these past few days, especially today due to that attack in München (which ended up not to be done by Muslim extremist but there are some people on the web claiming that the media said that just to calm down the crowd). As far as I know Al-Qaeda & ISIS are declared as Sunni Muslims, right? So is it the issue within Sunni Islam or is it just the coincidence since roughly 80% of Muslims are in the branch of Sunni or is it maybe the divisions within Sunni Islam that cause such acts? Is there even such thing as general teaching of Sunni on jihad (in any meaning)? I'm very fragile at the moment, I try to distance myself from these news and stories because they make me feel bad about Islam but then again I have strong feeling that Allah would never ever accept any kind of violence to others no matter what they are unless it was in war & you were first attacked. So what are your opinions, is it just coincidence due to the bigger number of Muslims in Sunni or is there something in its general teaching?
Since this is in Sunni DIR, I seek no debate but just answers.
Also local masjid is Sunni & I should go there tomorrow to talk with imam but I'm not comfortable asking this question at the moment since I'm new.
I've been reading lots about terrorism these past few days, especially today due to that attack in München (which ended up not to be done by Muslim extremist but there are some people on the web claiming that the media said that just to calm down the crowd). As far as I know Al-Qaeda & ISIS are declared as Sunni Muslims, right? So is it the issue within Sunni Islam or is it just the coincidence since roughly 80% of Muslims are in the branch of Sunni or is it maybe the divisions within Sunni Islam that cause such acts? Is there even such thing as general teaching of Sunni on jihad (in any meaning)? I'm very fragile at the moment, I try to distance myself from these news and stories because they make me feel bad about Islam but then again I have strong feeling that Allah would never ever accept any kind of violence to others no matter what they are unless it was in war & you were first attacked. So what are your opinions, is it just coincidence due to the bigger number of Muslims in Sunni or is there something in its general teaching?
Since this is in Sunni DIR, I seek no debate but just answers.
Also local masjid is Sunni & I should go there tomorrow to talk with imam but I'm not comfortable asking this question at the moment since I'm new.