Religion strikes again

On Sunday, June 12, 2016, the Dallas Morning News published an article titled Huma Munir: Don’t let anger, fear divide us in fight againstterrorism. Fifty people are dead and at least 50 injured in the deadliest shooting in American history after a gunman opened fire and took hostages overnight indisder the gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. The attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. The shooter, Omar Marteen, called 911 before the attack and confessed his allegiance to ISIS. However, officials said that despite his confession, there was no evidence to support that he had been trained or instructed by the terror group or that he even had any direct connection to ISIS.

The author, Huma Munir, intended to Orlando massacre is not the work of all Muslims or Afghans. As not all Muslims are killers, she wanted to overcome and break the stereotypes and to reject suspicion and derision of one another. As she is representing one of the Muslim society, she honestly expressed her feeling about Muslim is hijacking her faith due to incident of Orlando, however, she is not going to become suspicious of other Muslims.

Even though I have a better understanding of not discriminating racial by stereotypes, some way or the other her perceptions have to see little bit more of reality of the world regarding with Muslims that most of the causes of terrorism are by them. On March 29, 2016, one of the Muslim scholars was invited to speak at Islamic Center. During his sermon, he considered homosexuals have to get rid of in their community and there is nothing to be embarrassed about this. Towards the homosexuals, he announced that their ‘death is the sentence’. I think it represents one particularly harsh Islamic perspective on gays have some connections gay and lesbian bars and clubs have been targeted consistently by those who harbor hate toward LGBT community. Why does Islam have a global terrorism problems today? This seems to be a very persistent, pervasive and uniquely Islamic problem spreading to the rest of the world. Politics could play a big role in it; however that does not explains why terrorism is such a Muslim sourced problem. Hope some of the Muslim people who believe in justice and peace have the correct teachings of them.