Politics, not religion behind terrorism
Why does terrorism strike Shiites in Kuwait and Christians in Egypt, not the other way round? The answer is that current terrorism is not practiced for religious reasons or for doctrinal fanaticism. The ultimate aim is division, undermining national unity and executing a policy of dividing the Arab Nation for Israel’s best interest.
Such terrorism usually seeks societies where it can flourish and start endless fires, especially if such society includes a large religious or doctrinal pluralism to effectively facilitate the creation of tumults. The ultimate goal of this policy is to have GCC doctrinal sects and the Egyptian religious factions fight each other the way it happened in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen. Whoever planned, trained, funded, led, armed and provided all modern technologies to either side, does not aim at supporting Sunnis, Shiites or Muslims against Copts. This terrorism has no religion even if it disguises behind old different names and manages to recruit sickminded people for its suicide bombing operations. Followers of the behavior of extremists in all Arab countries would easily realize that Islam is their least concern.
Moreover, their primary goal is to destroy Islam. They clearly have a more political objective, which is a criminal one only serving Islam’s enemies who are definitely not Muslim or Christian sects in any way. Reactions are still limited to caution and security measures which usually have a high tone after each aggression or attack, then start to fade away a while later, making criminals await the following possible moment of relaxation and negligence to resume their crimes. The same operations have been recurring with the same techniques each time.
The things we have not so far done in combating terrorism is preventing the spread of its ideology, raising younger generations up to love and rejection of division because terrorism has been appealing to certain ears since minds had been and are still being brought up to hate and rejection of others. I am not talking here about a certain doctrine, but all of them practice the same sort of feeding and prompting. They knowingly and unknowingly recruit minds and wait for a time when terrorism can strike or find people ready to use bombs to attack their fellow citizens.
Religious and educational messages should address our kids, teaching them to love everybody. Governments must also be fair with their own citizens to avoid creating grudges, envy and fanaticism. The recent terrorist attacks in the Egyptian churches must cause all Arab hearts to bleed. We should all condemn them and tell the Egyptian Copts that they are the original people of Egypt. It was them who welcomed Arabs and Muslim and opened their houses for them. We would never tolerate harming them. Egyptian Copts must determine the real source of terrorism, who is behind it and who manages it in order to realize that the Copts’ enemy is the very same of that of Muslims and all Arabs.
— Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Jarida