Are radicals patriots?

Majority 2-minded

WBy Ahmad Al-Sarraf

ith the increase of radicalism, extremism and religious polarization among all Muslims, either at home or international Diaspora, we see they are more and more distancing themselves from loyalty to their homeland.

They belong to specific countries and enjoy their wholesome goodness and forcibly pay their taxes, but they remain divided when it comes to allegiance to the homeland and loyalty to religion, which represents the Hereafter. I do not think that there are large groups of people on earth who have the same mentality in terms of their inability to determine loyalty.

If we assume that Turkey, for example, declares a war on Serbia for persecuting the Muslim minority there since among the Serbian citizens there are Muslims, to who they will be loyal to -- the homeland that has embraced over a period of time, provided them with food and clothing when they were starving on the border, after Turkey refused to shelter them, or they will they shift their allegiance to the state that has now become the frontline of Islam and spearheaded to defend the rights of Muslims around the world?

The reason is that the Muslim majority have not decided whether they are working for the world which is doomed to ‘disappear’ or working for the Hereafter which is everlasting. This cannot be achieved by showing alliance with the ‘enemies of Islam’ even if they were the ones who sheltered them and saved their lives and their families from death?

On the other hand, we see that the Armenian or the Christian Arab, for example, lives on his land, and has a psychological attachment and a conscientious commitment to his homeland.

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This association is manifested in responsible practices that are concerned with protecting the country and its stability and development, and does not involve in acts of subversion to revive the Crusades and to carry out brutal mass killings of Jews or Muslims. And so it is the life of the Christian or a British Jew, French, South African or Latin.

As for the Muslim, in most cases religious or sectarian affiliation dominates national affiliation, wherever it may be. This is the greatest danger and the greatest destruction, and is one of reasons for the living conditions of this degree of inhumanity in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, Myanmar and others.

The religious extremism and sectarianism have torn apart the social fabric of these countries and destroyed the civilized civil state. A majority of them are at the mercy of fatwas of the clerics and this has made them scientifically, morally and humanly backward because of their loyalty to religion or doctrine. Religion always interests them because in their view imams represent the majority.

They have knowledge about everything, but the history of most imams and religious elders shows their primary goal is influence, financial acquisition, social control and political leadership which has nothing to do with the project for advancement and progress of the nation.

The situation remains the same. This is what we have seen with the young Moroccans in Europe who have committed a series of terrorist acts in recent times in several European countries at the instigation of clerics, add to this the excessive religious doses in schools, mosques and satellite channels.

Tolerance is not found in their dictionary. Human rights and belief in parliamentary elections and democracy is non-existent among them but often they support the call for jihad and the establishment of the Caliphate State.

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