TOWARDS GLOBAL PEACE

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. It is this website or internet culture that has basically contributed to the radicalization of today’s Muslim youth. To save young Muslims from this negative culture, an extensive campaign is required to awaken Muslim minds in such a way that they may analyze information on websites on their own and develop the ability to differentiate between truth and falsehood. This kind of violence cannot be eliminated through counter violence, because any counter-violence will 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 danger to non-Muslims. This, however, is not actually the case. This term would be more apt with a slight change, it should be termed as ‘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 universal message to mankind. But the present Muslims, due to their wrong interpretation of their own religion, have misrepresented Islam as a religion of violence. Muslimophobia addresses Muslims rather than anyone else. It is telling Muslims to abandon the wrong interpretation of Islam and shun the gun and bomb culture, so that people may be saved from developing misunderstandings about Islam. In this way, people will be able to have a positive understanding of the religion of Islam. In view of the present situation, the question is, where is the silver lining? In the modern age Muslim reformers should focus on the