The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (148)

 

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Chapter 6: Genealogy of Islamic terrorism (3)

 

148 The roots of modern Islamic terrorism (3/4)

Islam was challenged by communism ideology in 20^th century. Communism is atheism and denies the religion. They reject Allah of supreme existence. For Muslim, it was exactly the devil’s dogma. Muslim had so much hostility against communism while the Christians are more generous for communism as they were brain-washed by liberalism and capitalism through modern history. Once communism took the power, Muslims resisted by means of terrorism. The Afghan war in 1980s was exactly typical one.

 

Sectarian terrorism in the same religion was the battle for "legitimacy". In history the disruption and confrontation between Sunnis and Shiites of Islam began just after the Prophet’s death. Sunnis urged that Quran and hadith were the most important things for Muslims. On the other hand, the Shiites claimed that the legitimacy should be on the prophet's genealogy. Shiites were inherited by Persians and Sunnis were handed down to the Arabs.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

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