What should the Islamic world do now about Islamic terrorism?

[Rick O'Shez]

Well?

 

[Politesse]

The same thing as everyone else: duck and cover, then carefully send in the troops. I don't think ISIS can be reasoned with, but I would like to think that education and economic improvement would hamper attempts to recruit the next generation to the cause.

 

[LuisDantas]

Troops? Troops are essentially useless against terrorism. Terrorism must be defused and prevented in the field of acceptance and ideas.

 

[Politesse]

Troops? Troops are essentially useless against terrorism. Terrorism must be defused and prevented in the field of acceptance and ideas.

Well, there's a point at which one must say "an openly expansionist terrorist state on our borders is a bit of a problem". The US can choose whether to be involved; much of "the Muslim world" is involved whether or not they want to be. But I agree that this does not defuse terrorism.

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

I dont know a term called "Islamic Terrorism".
If u mean Muslim Criminalism in the form of terrorism. Then muslims must unite to confront the criminals.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Then muslims must unite to confront the criminals.

Sounds like a good idea, but when is this likely to happen?

 

[Servant_of_the_One1]

Sounds like a good idea, but when is this likely to happen?

i hope when usa stops meddling in Middle East and Africa. Their meddling worsens things.
for example many from world community agrees by overthrowing Saddam & gadaffi there is more death and destruction.

 

[GoodbyeDave]

Troops? Troops are essentially useless against terrorism. Terrorism must be defused and prevented in the field of acceptance and ideas.

The Mongols didn't too too badly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins
I can't recall that we had much success in combating the Nazis in the field of ideas, either.

 

[LuisDantas]

We created Nazism by refusing to learn from WW 1.

 

[Pastek]

Each one is fighting in his country, sometimes they meet each others to discuss about this problem.
This is someting you don't see in your medias but we see it in ours.
There's some spots against terrorism, they also film sometimes terrorists captured, some show their faces other don't. Like here (in general they are executed) :

Some countries changed some laws concerning terrorism for exemple for many of them there's death penalty (which was abolished in some countries)
You can see which countries here : http://www.jeuneafrique.com/257601/...-terrorisme-afrique-vers-durcissement-peines/

Also there's the OIC but do they really have done something about terrorism... idk :

"The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is an international organization founded in 1969 consisting of 57 member states.
The organisation states that it is "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and works to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation

Here if you want to read the final communique of the 13th summit (april 2016) : http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv3/topic/?t_id=11093&t_ref=4364&lan=en

But there's a lack of unity, many of them having terrorists in their countries or the borders.
Maybe they also wait too much concerning this.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Here if you want to read the final communique of the 13th summit (april 2016) : http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv3/topic/?t_id=11093&t_ref=4364&lan=en

I had a quick look through, but I couldn't see any mention of dealing with ISIS.

 

[Pastek]

I had a quick look through, but I couldn't see any mention of dealing with ISIS.

Same here, i did not read everything just the beginning. But i've read in a site they were talking about it; if you look at some sites they say in general it's just words not real mesures.
I agree with them, it's like the arab ligue they debate a lot but we don't see that much actions. I guess each one has his own actions concerning his own country instead of real cooperation (but there's few).

 

[Akivah]

Well?

Memri just posted had an article quoting multiple Arabic journalists asking this very question. http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/9345.htm Arab Journalists Call To Acknowledge Existence Of Muslim Extremism; Reexamine Religious Texts

In a July 17, 2016 article in the London daily Al-Hayat following the July 14 truck attack in Nice, France, Khaled Al-Hroub, a Palestinian writer and academic living in Britain, called on Muslims to admit that terrorism perpetrated by Muslims is indeed tied to Islam, and that education in their schools and mosques establishes implicit support for ISIS, and then to work to uproot this phenomenon, as it does them great harm...

Sa'id Nasheed, a Moroccan writer and intellectual, wrote in the London-based daily Al-Arab: The basic problem of the Islamic world is the lack of sufficient courage to pose the most important and relevant question: From where do we draw this ability to be resentful and filled with hate, to disregard human life and to permit the shedding of blood? We lack sufficient courage [to answer this question]; in fact, we seem to lack even minimal self-integrity when we insist on ridiculously blaming others.

Ihlam Akram, a Palestinian writer and human rights activist living in the U.K., published an article in the liberal Saudi website Elaph saying "Yes, we must rewrite and reinterpret Islamic history and amend the religion in accordance with universal values... This change is not the responsibility of Western countries, but rather our own [responsibility as Muslims], both in the West and in the Arab region.

Egyptian writer and animation screenwriter Amr Hosny wrote in the Egyptian daily Al-Tahrir "Every time an extremist Muslims commits a horrifying crime against humanity, some people come out and shriek that he has nothing to do with Islam, while ignoring the fact that views and ideologies do not exist as abstract entities, but rather take shape in the minds and behavior of those who believe in them in accordance with the surrounding culture that defines the nature of their relations with the other. The culture of our Islamic societies in this generation, particularly Arab societies, produces a violent Islam whose believers simply murder anyone who disagrees with them under the pretext of being offended."

In an article in the London daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Jordanian researcher and pundit Muhammad Barhouma wrote "In our current culture, philosophy, art, and morality wither away, and clerics avoid the realization that there is a need to reexamine religious texts, remove vagueness from them, and revoke the legitimacy for violence that they contain, as they constitute a wonderful prescription for extremism and backwardness."

Qinan Al-Ghamdi, a senior Saudi journalist and former editor of the government daily Al-Watan wrote "I wish the Council of Senior Scholars would [accompany their] repeated condemnations following every terrorist attack with practical and informational ideological programs in order to erode the ideology of terrorism that Al-Qaeda relied on and now ISIS is relying on.

Writing in the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, Saudi journalist Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh argued that ISIS faithfully represents the texts from Islamic heritage, which reflect a reality that is no longer relevant today, and that there was therefore a need to update Muslim law to fit the times.

Taoufik Bouachrine, a Moroccan journalist and editor of the online daily Alyaoum24.com wrote "The narrow understanding of texts and violent interpretation of the religion, as well as the political use of the Koran and the exploitation of the Sunnah of the Prophet have [all] become ingrained in the structure of fundamentalist organizations. And because the political and economic climate in the Arab world is rife with tyranny, poverty, dearth, and ignorance, ISIS and Al-Qaeda before it... found gunpowder and ammo for their guns and canon."

Muhammad Yaghi, a columnist for the Palestinian Authority daily Al-Ayyam wrote "ISIS focuses on a narrow interpretation of Islam: it presents a discourse of Islamic interpretation that captures the hearts of dozens of its recruits. This discourse is precisely the factor that must be combatted – yet it is the one topic that is never discussed. Those who call themselves jurisprudents see ISIS distorting all human values [in the name of Islam], yet they do not stand up and say that its actions are crimes that have nothing to do with Islam. None of them say that the phenomenon of taking hostages and slaves has nothing to do with the shari'a and that its time has past. On these matters, clerics are as silent as the dead."

Mashari Al-Dhaidi, a Saudi journalist and senior editor in the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat wrote "A true and fundamental start [in combating terrorism] is confronting this culture and facing the consequences, difficult as they may be. Those who say that ISIS, Al-Qaeda before it, and other ideological abscesses like them, are products of some intelligence apparatus, or the result of political oppression or economic or cultural deprivation, are denying the clear truth, namely that this is a cultural-educational problem."

 

[Subhankar Zac]

They're not going to do **** or at least it's not goung to make any impact.
I'd start by strong background checks on people immigrating to my country and secure the borders with Islamic nations.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Troops? Troops are essentially useless against terrorism. Terrorism must be defused and prevented in the field of acceptance and ideas.

Agreed.

Muslim countries should educate their people and rest of the world (with the media) in a wide scale that acts like suicide bombing (suicide in general actually) is forbidden, killing people just because they are non Muslims is forbidden, destroying places of worship, harming women, children and the elderly even in wars, harming hostages, rape, burning people, and other acts terrorists who happen to be Muslim do in the name of Islam.

It is unfortunate tho that there are some establishments with administrations twisted enough that could as well be stopped with physical wits because they are also holding sources spreading the exact opposite education mentioned above right next to actual wide spread physical acts.

 

[MD]

Destroy the belief in the perfection of the Quran and the perfection of their prophet. Destroy the idea that Islam is an eternal truth. Destroy parts of the Left which support Islamism.

Either make the Quran allegorical or accept another long dark age.

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

We created Nazism by refusing to learn from WW 1.

We did not create nazism.
we provided the conditions in which it could thrive.
The concepts behind nazism had existed for many generations.
The ideology existed in many countries from the USA, the UK, to most countries in Europe, especially amongst the upper and scocialite classes.

In Germany it was sucessfully spread in the form of a political organisation, to the working and supervisory class. The rest is history.

Today the conditions exis in which Isis can thrive.
we have no more idea what to do about it than we did about the growing threat of Nazism.

 

[psychoslice]

Destroy them, get ride of them, their nothing but slime.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Destroy them, get ride of them, their nothing but slime.

*they're

 

[psychoslice]

*they're

True, and I know that they are an embarrassment to you, to you and your friends who are nothing like this trash.