not every Paris and not every Muslim is
a terrorist but except for the Timothy
McVeigh every Paris has been a Muslim
terrorism goes back since time
immemorial as defined as I've defined it
or as even the 1997 convention defines
it we have examples in Britain I grew up
as a child in London when my mother
wouldn't allow me to go shopping in the
center of town because a group known as
the Irish Republican Army the IRA who
happened to be Catholics were bombing
the center of London that those were
terrorist acts we know that in the 1940s
and Palestine and what is now Israel
Jewish groups used terrorist methods to
instill fear in a local population and
against the British
well it's absurd to think that only
Muslim people can be tears terrorism is
not gender it is not nationality it is
surely not religion there are Christians
who commit terrorist acts there are
Hindus who commit terrorist acts they're
Jews who commit terrorist act terrorism
again it has its definition has been to
do with those kinds of things and I
don't even see that Muslims are the main
perpetrators if we look at the world
hindus i do an enormous amount of
terrorists for instance and in europe we
had all kinds of political groups who
strongly influenced the politics of the
country through their violent acts in
every ideology there are fanatics who go
beyond the limits set out for them there
are Hindu fanatics Christian fanatics
Jewish fanatics and Muslim fanatics no
one could blame the founding fathers of
the United States of America for
fighting and resisting for the sake of
freedom nor could one blame the French
resistance for fighting and resisting
the Nazis very often
if you dig away at the root causes of
areas and parts of the world where
violent conflict has erupted where
terrorist activity has taken place and
it goes back to time immemorial one sees
at the heart of this very often issues
not just of poverty most likely my view
not of ignorance but of a sense also of
injustice of some wrong that has been
done and that is continuing over time
that is not being addressed one of the
greatest crimes that can occur to an
oppressed people is the stealing and
taking of their land and property all
legal systems in the world recognize the
right of those who are oppressed to rise
up and defend themselves in their land
against oppressors a lot of vicious acts
are committed under the banner of jihad
as well as many crimes are committed in
the name of the war on terror but
neither can the first be considered as
jihad nor the second be considered as
war on terrorism states are entitled to
use force in very limited circumstances
in self-defense or when authorized by
the United Nations Security Council
sometimes some would say also in
relation to the protection of
fundamental human rights but even in
those circumstances what they can never
do is targets evident there is no doubt
that targeting non-combatants civilians
is against Islamic teachings this covers
the events of 9/11 as well as the events
that occurred in London Madrid and
Sharma Sheikh likewise the targeting of
non-combatants civilians by military
forces is much worse since governments
are supposed to be more responsible and
what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
and what's happening in Palestine and
Iraq are much worse
young people need to understand
themselves and know what they're doing
and why they're doing it
among the problems in our society is
that young people have low self-esteem
and confidence it is important that we
look at these issues and how to increase
their self esteem and confidence to make
them better individuals one of the
aspects of Islam is charity when giving
charity Muslims are not supposed to tell
people this information is between
themselves and their Creator it's very
difficult not to tell people to make
yourself look good this is human nature
but for this you need jihad he said the
best form of jihad is the word of truth
in the presence of a tyrant peace has
always been the first and preferable
choice in Islam what do you think about
a religion which teaches its followers
that the best name is peace and the
worst thing is war
is it promoting peace or war if we want
to know three stored without war and
without the threat of war we need to
understand that we are all humanely
equal one innocent victim in London or
New York is the same as one innocent
victim in Gaza and Kabul