By Nabeela Ali, who used to work as a professional journalist in Islamabad Pakistan, when journalists were not highly paid in terms of respect and money

It’s hard to define terrorism but according to many people when it comes to Muslims, it becomes crystal clear that Muslims are terrorists and Islam has an in built system of terrorism in the form of Jihad. I must admit Jihad is an essential part of Islam but terrorism does not come under the cover of jihad. More explicitly Terrorism is NOT Jihad neither part of Islam.

Muslim terrorism has given a bad image to both Islam and Muslims. The growth of Muslim terrorism has placed all the Muslims community in an awkward situation, either these terrorist are right and their evil activities are in line with Quran or NOT.

If the answer is yes then being a Muslim it’s our religious duty to join different terrorist organizations and promote their cause without any fear.

On the other hand if these terrorists are the evil creation of devilish minds and they have their own self explained evil version of Islam which is not aligned with the Quran or with the life of the holy prophet Muhammad, may peace be on him.

Again it’s our religious duty to record our protest against these terrorists for the blasphemy of the Quran and the teaching of the holy prophet Muhammad.

It’s important to know how jihad is different from terrorism like every religion, Islam was not very well welcomed by the natives of Mecca Muslims had to face many battles before they were able to get Islam established. Most of the people turned into the enemies of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and prophet had to face threat to life.

At that time Muslims were forced not to preach Islam and they tried to stop their mission by hook and crook.

Under these circumstances, it’s very much understandable that for the survival of Muslims, they had to fight many battles

And Yes! It’s true, at that time Muslims were encouraged to fight against non Muslims in the battle field and they were given good news

From Allah through his messenger that if they accompanied the holy prophet in the war they would be rewarded in their life and in the afterlife.

In the beginning of Islam there were no established armies. Historically it was the tradition amongst Arabs, if any disagreement  happened between two tribes, people from both sides started fighting with each other until they ended up with some settlement either by agreeing with each other or by defeating one of the tribe.

After embracing Islam, all the Muslims became one group without any distinction of color, race or economic standard. So whenever they faced any threats from their enemies, Muslims were encouraged to fight against their enemies like an army called jihad under the direct command of Holy Prophet MUHAMMAD, may peace be on him.

There are many types of jihad, jihad doesn’t mean defensive war or killing only!

There are 164 verses in Quran regarding jihad, most of them explains very openly that those who would support the Holy Prophet in the war will get a huge reward in this world and after world.

According the Quran and Hadith the greatest Jihad is by one, who makes Jihad against ones nafs (ego) for the sake of obeying Allah.

After the death of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the Muslim empire expanded and later on they developed their own armies. And if anyone other than the Army in the state of war, kills someone, even a non-Muslim is categorized as a murderer, not the lover of Islam or the Holy Prophet.

There is not a single example in the whole life of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, where a group of lovers of the prophet decided to kill non Muslims by disgracing Prophet Muhammad.

Remember! This doesn’t mean if anything happens like that, being a Muslim we should not be bothered about it, we should take a stand the way The Prophet did.

We were taught in our primary schools that when it was the beginning of Islam, there was a woman in Mecca who used to wait for the Holy Prophet Muhammad on her roof just to show anger and hate by throwing Rubbish on him every single day, and Muhammad, didn’t utter a single word against her. One day when the Prophet passed through that street, Muhammad noticed that today the women was not there to throw the rubbish on him, Muhammad thought for a moment then knocked on the door, the women replied who is there, the prophet answered that it was him, Muhammad.The women got scared and said that she had been very disgraceful to the Prophet Muhammad and today it was time for her to get repaid. As the women was scared she tried to apologize but the prophet of Allah said, I have forgiven you, and asked permission to enter the house, when the holy prophet entered the house, he found that the women was terribly ill. The Holy prophet looked after that women for many days, when she recovered she embraced Islam.

Now the question is this if someone sitting thousands of miles away, starts disgracing someone for whatever reason, how can we use this practice which is set by the holy Prophet?

I am writing this because all Muslims condemn terrorism but when it comes in response to the disrespect of holy prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), all the Muslims seal their lips.

The reason for this is in UK law calling a Pakistani as a Paki is categorised as Racist and if the law is brought into practice the person who said ‘Paki’ could be held in prison for years and years. And this is why we can’t publish such material in the newspapers because we are sensitive and respectful for others.

If we are so sensitive about this, why don’t we have a certain code of conduct to follow whilst using the right freedom of speech?

We are very thankful to the UK and the rest of the European media who refused to publish the most disrespectful cartoons in the world.

No matter whatever the situation terrorism can’t be justified in the light of jihad described in the Quran. Stab can’t be justified for Slap.

For instance recently when a group of Taliban attacked a school and killed 145 children very brutally, after their mission was accomplished it’s on record that the Taliban militants shouted as they roared through the hallways of the school in Peshawar, Pakistan.

“God is great,’

Does this make sense to anyone in the whole wide world, no matter which faith you believe in, that God would have been pleased after this bloodbath?

Jihad was meant to fight against non Muslims under the direct command of the Holy prophet but these terrorists are killing Muslims as well. Pakistan is paying a very heavy price in their attempt to control terrorism.

These people are not doing any holy job: they have their own evil motives; they are working to destroy the image of Isla.

Fortunately in the light of the Quran all Muslim religious leaders unanimously believe that Islam is a peaceful religion and there is no room for terrorism

I am a Muslim and I strongly feel that Muslims and Islam are being blamed for an unacceptable version of extremism.

And also Innocent Muslims are being tricked by showing the imaginary version of heaven that life is mortal and actual life starts after death, the young Muslims are told if you do jihad (terrorism), which is a holy job you will be rewarded with a very high place in heaven forever.

As most of the Muslims don’t know what exactly is written in the Quran about the Jihad, they believe the word of the extremist, they assure them it is justified to kill the Muslims because they are trying to stop our cause.

We are doing this because we are creating an environment for the MEHDI, the final and great saviour of the humanity. And we have to establish Muslim khalafit like Saltanat-i-usmaia, so he could rule it.

My point is this the biggest ever Muslim empire was established after the establishment of Islam, why do these Terrorists want to set up a Muslim empire before the arrival of Mehdi?

If Mehdi is meant to come let him comes  first like the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W).

I want to tell every single Muslim on the earth that the way to paradise is NOT what the terrorists are telling you in their imaginary and fake stories of heaven.

But the right way is told in the Quran by Allah, not by the head of the terrorists.

I would request the UK and the international media please don’t call these terrorists Muslims,

The one who is Muslim is not a terrorist and the one who is a terrorist is not Muslim.

If the media will not stop calling terrorists Muslim, we reserve the right to protest that this is a deliberate effort to defame the Muslims and their peaceful religion Islam.

Extremism can’t be in line with any religion/faith. It’s a group of mad people, who like to see bloodshed/dead bodies/blood tears.

This is the time that all the Muslims need to participate in the open talks and condemn the terrorism to protect the dignity and the true image of Islam and Muslims.