Source: CNN
By Hussein Rashid, Special to CNN
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bomb suspects, reportedly wrote that “an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all” on the wall of the boat in which he was hiding from police last month. Variations of this refrain seem to be common among angry young Muslim men, especially those who are attracted to violence. However, such a view ignores history, religious thinking and contemporary reality. It should be seen as a crass advertising slogan rather than a declaration of belief.
Tsarnaev’s quote seems to be based on the idea of a global Muslim community, called the ummah, that has always been aspirational. The Tsarnaev brothers clearly felt that they were being marginalized, and the fact that they did not belong to an American Muslim community further reinforced that belief. So the brothers turned to the idea of the ummah, a historical fiction that has not existed in practice in all of Muslim history. Muslims are too varied to connect to one way of being a community.
Categories: Americas
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bomb suspects, reportedly wrote that “an attack against one Muslim is an attack against all” on the wall of the boat in which he was hiding from police last month. The quote written by Tsarnaev itself indicates that either he was taught wrongly or was brought up in wrong Islam. Islamic teachings are very clear that murder of an innocent human being is like murdering the whole humanity or mankind. No where it is written the word Muslim. Question to be probed who are spreading such interpretations amongst innocent Muslims and taking them to astray ed path. Whole matter these days revolve around the interpretation of Quranic teachings. Quran itself says that only pa is and those having live contact with God can interpret the Quran correctly. In current era rather form last 125 years in whole of Muslim Ummah one can see only one claimant and that is Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. It claims interpretation of Quranic teachings under divine guidance may be from its founder or successors. Its 125 years record of love and peace for the human kind and service to Islamic cause round the Globe supports its claim. Then why not to ponder on this claim of Ahmadiyya community and whole Islamic Ummah to join hands with it to bring good name back to great religion Islam.