Radicalization of Muslim Youths
English book, p. 123
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
The Need for a Counter-Ideology such a way that they may analyze information on websites on their own and develop the ability to differentiate between truth and falsehood. The present book is an attempt to aid them in this. This kind of violence cannot be eliminated through counter-violence, because any counter-violence can only further aggravate the Muslims’ anger. It is only due to this aggravated anger that they have taken to suicide bombing. In the modern age, almost the entire Muslim community has started to lodge protests and complaints. Because of this mindset of theirs, Muslims have become receptive to negativity and not to positivity. Under the influence of this mindset Muslims tend to treat positive news with suspicion. All they know is that others are their enemies; they are unable to view people as creations of God. They only look at the negative aspect of events and fail to take account of their positive aspects. Muslims today have coined a new term, that is, Islamophobia. This means that the West has wrongly come to regard Islam as a danger to non-Muslims. This, however, is not actually the case. I think this term would be more apt with a slight change. That is, the term should be ‘Muslimophobia’. Muslims have adopted the culture of violence in the name of Islam. In this sense the West is right to consider Muslims to be dangerous. Yet Islam, in itself, is a great blessing from God for the whole of humanity. But the present Muslims,

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