JUSTIFIED MILITANCY — Political Islam

It is this kind of a political ideology that has motivated the Muslim youth of the present time to engage in militancy. They will remain active in this field, unless this ideology is dispelled as un-Islamic and against the Sunnah of the Prophet of Islam. This Muslim militancy has greatly damaged the true picture of Islam. It is the duty of every sincere Muslim to try to prove this political theory wrong through arguments. Muslim militancy can be killed only through an ideological weapon, and not physical weapon. Condemnation should begin from condemnation of the ideology and not just of the present militancy. There are parties and groups in the Muslim world who had accepted this political ideology as the right ideology and became associated with it. Now, when the violence resulting from this ideology is being condemned all over the world, they too have joined in condemning it. However, this kind of condemnation will yield no result. These people must first declare that their ideologues were wrong and they had wrongly accepted their ideology. Thus, their condemnation should begin from condemnation of the ideology and not from condemnation of the present militancy. These people will not receive the credit of condemning militancy by doing so in human rights terms. Rather, they will have to first disown the political ideology of their ideologues, which they still regard as respectable, and only then can they be given the credit of having condemned militancy. CPS International is a mission that is performing this same task. We have published hundreds of books and articles for this purpose. The magazine ‘Spirit of Islam’, was in part initiated for this very purpose. Those who want Muslim militancy to come to an end should earnestly spread our literature including the ‘Spirit of Islam’ among Muslims and others. o