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   Terrorism is Islamic-
                                 A Big Lie

 Till the 1940's of the last century, no one had heard about something called terrorism until we had news about the Jewish gangs in Palestine, the murder acts they were committing against the occupying British army officers and how they were hanging victims from their legs like slaughtered sheep. At that time, we heard about the Hagana, Shater and Argon Zafai Lumi militias following the second World War.  These gangs were not only carrying out terrorist acts to seed terror in the heart of the members of the British Army but also to but in action a well studied and a long term plan to seed terror in the hearts of Palestinians in order to expel them from their homes and properties.

  In 19408, the largest terrorist operation over history took place, namely, the establishment of Israel itself.  Zionists showed their ugly face and formed the first mass terrorist operation in the form of armed gangs.   News about Jewish criminal terrorism was received now and then.  They killed Lord Moyone, the British Minister for middle east Affairs in daylight in Cairo and then assassinated Kont Bernadotte, the international peace mediator who wanted to bring peace to Palastine.
    Were these terrorists and criminals Muslims? Did they shout 'Allahu Akbar' when they were carrying out their murders?  Not at all, they were enemies of Islam as much as they were of Allah.
since that time, terrorism of all forms began spreading in the world.  The notorious German Beder Meinhoff gang was formed and began murdering people mercilessly. It was followed by the terrifying Japanese gang, the Red Army, who had a very bad record of assassinations, kidnappings and explosions; most distinct among them was hijacking an electrical train with passengers.
   News was then received about Italian Mafia in the United states and Cecile where they established a state within the state, forced citizens to pay ransoms, in terfered in politics and could, through terrorist acts, win senior politicians including Andriotti himself. Later on, we heard about terrorist gangs in Spain named ETTA and the murder, kidnapping, assassination and explosion acts they were and are still carrying out even on the streets of Madrid, not to mention the Brigada Rossa gangs and teir abominable murder acts.  They even killed the prime minister Aldo Muro, whose body was later found in a car trunk.
 We have also heard about the Tamil terrorist gangs in Sri Lanka and the Timor gangs in Indonesia.  Do all these gangs have a single Muslim member to call them as Muslim terrorists?  Another type of violent terrorism is the reciprocal atrocities committed in Ireland between the Protestant Loyalists and the Catholic Separatists who formed IRA.  They continued thirty years of bloody terrorism including killing and kidnapping of British people and police and destruction of buildings, vehicles and public facilities. An example to this way exploding Omaha Mayor Building resulting in the murder of about one hundred victims.
  It is not secret to say that the main financial support for Catholic terrorist operations in Ireland came from Irish Americans who provided terrorists with money and arms. they are Christian Protestant and Catholic terrorists not Muslim Protestant and Catholic terrorists .
 In the meantime, Arabian Palestine was colonized. The constant efforts exerted by the Jews to bring their criminal plan into reality continued transferring Palestinian Arabs from their land and putting heavy hand on the few remaining Arabs by using all prohibited ways and arms and omitting any kind of humane feelings. They have butt and are still building settlements on Arab lands and detained thousand of Palestinians. They have also conducted organized genocide including Sabra and Shatila camps mass murders. The master plotter of those murders was Ariel Sharon, who built his popular fame on his criminal extremism.  People of different races usually tend to radical views. Sharone filled the minds of the Jews with dreams to have a state from Nile to Euphrates, a dream that would never come true unless all Arabs are eradicated. As such, he gang began eradicating Palestinians. They killed men and usurped lands. However, the Palestinians could not keep silent in the face of this massacre even thought they don't have the arms that the United states provides the Jews with.  They have tried their best to defend their lives, home and lands. Their only arms have been stones. 
  The Jewish media, with all its cynical skills, began introducing Arab defense as terrorism and that patriots were terrorists and nothing else. they convinced the international public opinion of this cynical lie.  Does the international public opinion expect us to be whipped, our children to be killed and our families to be left homeless without even saying a word? The truth is that the acts of Palestinians do not have any thing to do with terrorism. They are, rather, acts for liberation and resistance against colonialism. They are legitimate acts of self defense or resistance. This was the same way adopted by th efree French forces during the German occupation of their land. No one did say that such a resistance, which was admired by the whole worlds, was any type of terrorism. General De Gullet would have been considered the first terrorist in history.       The question remains:  Why was the French resistance considered as an act of heroism whereas the Arab resistance is considered as a criminal act? The answer to this question can be found in Jewish media spreading all over the world. Accusing Muslims as terrorists is an unfair and unjust accusation that does not agree with true Islam. Islam condemns aggression and transgression against any human being irrespective of this religion, race or faith.  Murder is a fatal sin according to Islam. the Qur'an addressed the Jews in particular and the whole humanity in general saying; "For that, we have prescribed in the sons of Israel, that he who kills a soul or makes corruption in the land would (be considered) as having killed all people."     following that Allah explains the punishment set for those who make corruption in the land. He says: "The punishment  for those who fight against Allah and His Messenger and make corruption in the land is that they should be killed, crucified, their hands an legs are cut alternately or expelled from the land. This is an admonition for them in this life and they will have a severe torment in the Hereafter." This is the Islamic view of corruption, i.e. terrorism, and the punishment it sets for it in this life and in the Hereafter. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "The (true) Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hands Muslims are kept safe."   How can then we imagine that terrorism would be Islamic when Islam deprived the aggressor from the quality as being a Muslim? With the accusations against Arabs and Muslims as terrorist, the media omitted to state that the largest organization they named as terrorist was headed by a person named George Habash. It is clear from the name that the man is a Christian and not a Muslim.
  The West, or say some western extremist writers, forgot that the white Americans who feel proud to be the heirs of the early migrants to America had formed a terrorist gang that had been specialized in killing and hanging the blacks for no sin they committed except that their complexion was dark. These were the K.K. gangs. In France, the terrorist gang known as Action Directe terrified citizens specially non-Catholics. Charles Mertell organization, who was heading the army which stopped The Arab conquest of Poitiers, two hundred kilometers from Paris, also specialized in killing and terrifying citizens and foreigners alike.
   I'm really indebted to Dr. Nimat A. fuad for the words she quoted from Durant stating that "The Muslim world had a great influence  on the Christian world in different areas. Europe had received from Muslim countries food, drinks, medicines and drugs, arms, shields, insignia and many industries. legislation and naval sciences." She also quoted the German writer, Sigrid Honk, as saying " Muslims and Arabs remained for eight centuries giving the world science, art, literature and civilization and took Europe out of gloom to light." I hope Perloskoni would read what these teachers wrote to that he may learn and leave darkness to light.   In this respect, I would quote a statement by J.J. Bonvoisin, a French thinker, following stopping the Arab army at Poitiers for the religious differences he saw among the French. He said: " I hoped that the Arabs had conquered poitiers and defeated the French so that the French would again some of the Arab culture.
However some western extremists try, as stated by Mukhtar Umbo, the Ex Director of   UNESCO, to monopolize culture. What is the kind of culture they would monopolize other t than that of the new terrorist parties in Germany like the New Nazis who specialized in killing and terrifying Turkish citizens although  they bear the German nationality, the culture of the extremist French Rigghtists headed by Lepon who wants to expel  millions of French Algerians by all criminal terrorist ways or the culture of genocide which Rome used when they occupied Constantinpole, the Capital of of the eastern Roman Empire, when they killed and hanged all Christian citizens following a different faction of Christianity?  historians stated that their blood was running like rivers in the streets.

                                                                                 By Fikri M. Obaid
                                                                               Egyptian Christian writer