in the 20th and 21st century it has been
full of Bloodshed according to Professor
Carter he says that the 20th century has
been the most bloodiest Century ever
more blood has been spilled in this
Century than in any other time in known
history and then they say religion
causes War more people have died under
the banner of secular ideologies rather
than the banner of religion from a
numbers
game the real terror is actually the
state or the ideological type of Terror
because far more Innocents have died for
example this bigu
brazinski in his publication out of
control Global turmoil on the eve of the
21st century he was published in
1993 he said lives have been
deliberately EST uish by politically
motivated Carnage and he gives us some
numbers the war dead alone in the 21st
century and is listen to this the war
dead alone for politically motivated
reasons is
875 million
people not
3911 which is wrong and we disagree with
not around 60 people in
77 in the United Kingdom which is wrong
and with dis agree with but look at the
real type of
terrorism politically motivated Vice
State Terror
872 million people I mean even if you
were doing a numbers game you'd be
shocked how can you hide this 87 and a
half million people for politically
motivated reasons via State backed
entities so what is the realu terrorism
I mean let's wake up State terrorism is
the terrorism
this whole war on terror is like a smoke
screening
away if this is true that 87 half
million people have died for politically
motivated
reasons via secular Nations and States
then we need to start talking about what
is the real terror and the real terror
here is without a doubt state-backed
terrorism and we saw this in Iraq 1.2
million people dying we saw this in
Afghanistan thousand thousand dying we
saw this with the use of depleted
uranium on the tips of bombs when they
were bombing the gulf and it created
like a covert nuclear weapon if you like
there's still radiation clouds there
still there's du dust in the atmosphere
children are being born and they're
deformed they have no faces they have no
arms so even just scratching the surface
you see the
real terror is state
terrorism now we're not saying what
state the point is Muslims we need to be
just and speak the truth even if it's
against our own
selves and we should speak like
this so when a certain Nation does wrong
we should say it this is part of command
in the and forbidding thear for
commanding the good and forbidding the
evil something that we all have to do
and if if we do not do this our piety
will not get us anywhere the prophet
sallallah wasallam said and I'm
paraphrasing the Hadith that there was
a evil town and God told the angels to
destroy the town but they saw a Pious
man who worships Allah and they said Ya
Allah there's a Pious man here and Allah
says destroy him first with the town
because true piety manifests and also
maning the good and forbidding the evil
because he didn't do nothing about it
his heart wasn't inclining to change the
situation so look at this state Terror
87 and and a half
million million innocent deaths for
politically motiv motivated reasons in
the 21st
century so this is actually the road
terrorism it takes a 5 minutes
discussion to discuss what is Terrorism
and who who are the real terrorists okay
and we've done that already Yes we know
Muslims who do naughty things are wrong
and we condemn this but we have to call
a Spain and Spain and look at the
greatest Terror which As We Know by one
of the definitions is the killing of
Innocents for politically motivated
reasons and we see 87 and a half million
Innocents via secular
State secular States and secular back
institutions so now I think the
discussion should be about what some
people think terrorism is because they
think it's
Jihad terrorism is not Jihad and Jihad
is not terrorism and I want to take you
through a journey an intellectual
Journey so you could really understand
this and before we do that we have to
understand fighting in itself now there
have been many anthropological studies
which is the study of culture the study
of Nations on war and fighting various
studies on warn fighting they have all
included or concluded that fighting is a
human
reality it existed before religion it
exists during religion and it's existed
after religion and post secular Nations
so fighting is a human reality it
happens
okay now the reasons for fighting differ
some people fight to defend themselves
others to attack enemies some do it to
gain land natural resources they do it
for geopolitics but in in summary war
and fighting are human phenomena and
they're not particular to any religion
or race fighting war is notl particular
to any religion or race and as we know
there are many modern Wars that we know
of especially in our lifetime an example
is the US and UK fighting for oil and
strategic dominance in Iraq and
Afghanistan and even the support of
Libya I would argue was obviously more
of a European project with the French
and the British because we see that
strategically Libya is very important
because it's an access to the resources
of Africa it gives a good channel to
Africa and also because of oil so let's
not be under any kind of Illusion that
when one of the state secretaries or a
representative of the United States of
America when the UN came together to
announce this when they said we're doing
it to prevent innocent lives I mean
that's that's a joke I mean I mean
believe they did it for innocent lives
and why aren't they in other countries
that are destroying other people I mean
it's it's duplicit it's because of
American
interests and this is what we hear they
even very they're very bold about this
when you hear Obama and others say
American interest they even mean read
some of the narratives look at the news
they always say what's in British
interest what's in American interest so
you know don't be under any illusion
this is to do with humanitarian
effort so we know fighting is a a
natural human phenomenon so what about
fighting in Islam well we know Islam
being a practical religion it's a Dean
it's not a religion it's a world view
it's a comprehensive way of life it
realizes that humans actually fight and
engage you more that's what it realizes
I mean Allah knows Humanity but the
humanity knows
itself however but Islam sets rules for
war which are to be followed if Muslims
go to war now here's some of the rules
of War and the Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam he
articulation of the rules of
war predated and preceded the things
like the Geneva
Convention so Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam was years ahead of his time
because we believe he was given divine
revelation so some of these rules
include no killing of innocent people no
killing of women and children no burning
of Cups and trees only fight those that
fight you and no want destruction this
is why Abu Bakr who who was the prophet
Muhammad sallallah alaihi wasallam first
successor and is considered to have been
his closest companion he said when the
armies were ready to go out he said stop
oh people that I may give you 10 rules
for your guidance in the battlefield do
not commit treachery or deviate from the
right path you must not mutilate dead
bodies neither neither kill a child nor
a woman nor an aged man bring no harm to
the trees no burn them with fire
especially those which are fruitful slay
not any of the enemy's flock save for
your food you are likely to pass people
who have devoted their lives to monastic
or humanitarian Services leave them
alone and this is exactly what Islam
talks about when we're saying when we
want to engage in fighting after
diplomacy fails we have these specific
rules I mean we didn't come up with the
term collateral damage it's a very
technical cold term which means the
killing of
Innocents that's what it means oh it it
was an inevitable death because we had
to kill the majority evil people but you
know some Innocents had to die that's
what collateral damages we didn't we
don't invent terms like this every
innocent person is a person that should
be mourned and we should
regret so let me just walk through some
of the rights concerning the battlefield
and combatant now first and foremost we
have a very general principle in the
Quran in chapter 5:32 when Allah subhah
wa ta'ala says whoever kills a human
being without any reason like a man
slaughter or Corruption of the earth it
is as though he has killed the whole of
mankind so what he tells us now that
Allah is telling us that to kill someone
it has to be via a due process via law
or by just
reasons this is why Allah in the Quran
in chapter 6: 51 Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala says do not kill a soul which
Allah has made sacred except through due
process of law and this is why the
prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam said the greatest sins are to
associate something with God sh and to
kill human
beings now IM immediately after the
verse of the Holy Quran of the noble
Quran which was mentioned in the
connection of the right to life Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala says and whoever
Saves a Life it is as though he has
saved the lives of all of mankind so we
see these values from the Quran and
Sunnah really being strong about killing
innocence and killing in an unjust way
following from this we also have the
rights of competence for example we're
not allowed to
torture and we're not allowed to torture
with fire as well in the Hadith of the
Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wasallam that could be found Abu da the
prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam said
punishment by fire
does not behave anyone except the master
of the fire
Allah also we have protection of the
Wounded the prophet Muhammad sallallahu
alaihi wasallam said do not attack a
wounded
person also we have that prisoners of
Wars should not be slain the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam was very clear
and he said no prison of War should be
to put to the
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sword also the Prophet Muhammad
sallallah wasam said no one should be
tied to be killed he said rather the
narration goes that the prophet
sallallah was has Pro prohibited the
killing of anyone who is tied or is in
captivity also we have teachings
concerning the Looting and the
destruction in the enemy's country it's
been narrated in a Hadith in alkari and
Abu da that the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam said the prophet has prohibited
the Believers from Loot and plunder and
in another Hadith in Abu da the prophet
sallallah alaihi wasallam said the loot
is no more lawful than the
pig so these
prohibitions obviously we also believe
in the sanctity of a dead body in a
Hadith that could be found in alkari and
Abu da the prophet S.I wasallam said the
prophet has prohibited us from
mutilating the corpses of the
enemies
also we believe in returning the corpses
to the enemy there was a time when the
unbelievers presented 10,000 dinars to
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
and requested that the dead body of the
Fallen Warrior may be handed over them
and the prophet sallallah alaihi
wasallam replied I do not sell dead
bodies you can take away the corpse of
your Fallen
comrade and also we believe in the
prohibition of the breach of treaties
when we're engaged in war if we have a
treaty with someone we cannot breach any
treaty Islam has strictly prohibited
this now one of the instructions that
the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam
gave to the Muslim Warriors if you like
when he was sending them to the
battlefield he said do not be guilty of
the breach of Faith or the breach of
treaties now look at this take these
amazing beautiful narratives and values
and contrast them to what happens in the
West on a practical level now when
Western Nations invade countries you see
so many Innocents die I mean look at 1.2
million people in
Iraq thousands in
Afghanistan and even the BBC the British
Broadcasting Corporation reports that
you know the smart bombs you know
they're supposed to invent these smart
bombs that are laser guided and they
only kill enemies that they said they're
not so smart they
only only 40 % of them hit the
targets
now I want to use the zionists as an
example to see how unjust their foreign
policy is take the IDF as an example
they murdered hundreds of Egyptian
prisoners of war in the both the 1956
and 19 1967 Wars in 1967 the Zionist
expelled 100,000 and 260,000
or between 100,000 and 260,000
Palestinians from the newly conquered
West Bank and drove almost 100,000
syrians from the Golden Heights
according to Amnesty International
Israel has destroyed more than 10,000
homes between 1967 and
2003 Israel was complicit in the Sabra
and shatilla Massacre of 3,000 innocent
lives we don't see this mourned every
year by the West do we we remember the
3,000 lives in 911 but what about the
massacre of innocent human beings in
Sabra and
sh I'm not saying I'm not trying to
compare the two but I'm saying is the
blood of a Muslim less worth than the
blood of a non-muslim is that what
people are trying to
say Islam doesn't believe in this we
believe in every human blood has equal
value from this
perspective Israel was icit in this
massacre and after an Israeli
investigation the commission found the
defense minister AOS shiron to Bear
personal responsibility quote
unquote during the relatively recent
Lebanese War the idea fired over 1
million bomblets 1 million in a
population of 650,000 in southern
Lebanon that's like two bombs per the
person and one Israeli soldier said what
we did was insane and
monstrous Human Rights Watch concluded
Israel has violated one of the most
fundamental tenants of the laws of war
the duty to carry out attacks on only
military
targets now professor of political
science John mimer and professor of
international Affairs Steven Walter they
State viewed
objectively Israel's past and present
conduct offers little moral basis for
privileging it over the
Palestinians we know Israel is the
target of 65 un resolutions the themes
of these resolutions include and I'm
quoting the major themes reflected in
the UN resolutions against Israel over
the years are its unlawful attacks on
its neighbors its violations of the
human rights of the Palestinians
including deportations demolitions of
homes and other Collective punishments
it consic of Palestinian land its
establishment of illegal settlements and
his refusal to abide by the UN Charter
and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention
relative to the protection of civilians
civilian persons in a time of
war and this is one example this using
the Zionist entity if I were to talk to
you about the United States of America I
mean Subhan Allah what they've done to
South America alone they've been very
intimate in the political Affairs of the
Latin Americans and Europe itself and
Africa I mean we could go on and on and
on but if we were here we'll be here
until
Ramadan so this is for your own research
to check out for yourselves I use the
zus as an example
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