Isis Is Not Islamic

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This applies to ISIL as well. While many, many people across the globe see ISIL as terrorists whose religion is sheer terrorism, other people disagree. Some may say that ISIL isn’t islamic. ISIL themselves says that everything they do is for and by the Qur’an. If what ISIL says is true, then yes, religion is violent in that situation, because it is the perspective of the people within ISIL. “Religion has a role but it is a role of justification.” (Hasan 18). To understand why ISIL does what it does, one has to understand that ISIL uses religion to advance a political opinion rather than using a political opinion to advance a religion. It’s really obvious to see that people involved in politics are angry. Angry people are very easily swayed into doing things to validate their emotions. ISIL uses the Islamic name to not only justify their actions, but to bring in more people willing to fight under their cause. More people under their power means more control in a larger scale of area. It isn’t faith, but rather a sense of outrage that ISIL uses, while hiding behind their faith to justify the means of unleashing their rage.

It’s actually very easy to see how followers of ISIL could be so outraged as to become terrorists. The Anti-Muslim atmosphere within America post-9/11 is a great example of the injustice done to Muslim people. It should have been obvious to many Americans that just because a small amount of people who do a bad thing do it for the sake of their religion, doesn’t mean everyone who follows that religion will do the bad thing, too. However, this unfortunately wasn’t the case, because many Americans were completely outraged towards Mmuslims after the attacks. Americans took their anger at the devastation towards the stereotype of Mmuslims all being terrorists. This hatred turned violent unfortunately fast, as many people were unjustly harassed and even murdered during this time of American history. Violence and threats of violence against Aarab Aamericans and Mmuslims quickly escalated into violent acts on the part of American citizens, including defaced mosques and vandalized businesses, under the guise of patriotism. (Climent.) Many Americans even dismissed the fact that Arab Aamericans were over 3000 of the casualties of the attacks of September 11th. "There are 6 to 7 million Muslims in the United States, the vast majority of whom are patriotic, hardworking, and productive members of society." (Climent 57-58). So, the acts that were justified as “patriotic,” don’t seem to be as much of that, and instead maybe a bit more hypocritical. It’s easy to see how Mmuslim people would react negatively to innocent people of their faith being unjustly murdered, however it doesn’t quite excuse the hypocrisy of ISIL acting in the same manner, despite what any book says.

These backgrounds are very important to understand in regards to how ISIL should be handled, and how Mmuslim and Aarab-Aamericans should be treated as such. To be frank, it is in no way any Mmuslim who doesn’t believe in ISIL’s ideals’ fault for ISIL being terrible. Treating these people like they are a part of the problem is actual part of the problem in itself, because it’s the mistreatment of their people that caused ISIL to rise up in the first place. To treat the religion and any of its followers as a terrorist religion is completely hypocritical and absolutely unhelpful. If there is belief is otherwise, then research of many wars as well as the Crusades could be helpful and enlightening those beliefs to a new, much more accurate position. It is not just the religion that factors into ISIL’s actions, rather than it’s history of unsteady previous government, religious text interpretations, and background of extreme discrimination leading to outrage that should be factored into asking what ISIS stand for and what it’s about.