Face of Islam
Boko
Haram, Islamist group in Nigeria, killed 2000 innocent people in the name of
Islam. Earlier they abducted 200 school girls who are still in their captivity.
Boko
Haram means Western education is forbidden in the Hausa language. Official
Arabic name Jamaatu Ahlis Sunna Liddaawati Wal-Jihad, means “People Committed
to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad”.
Are
ISIS, Boko Haram, Al-Qaida, Taliban, IM etc. etc. are the face of Islam ? They
will say “It is not Islam. Islam is a religion of peace”. But the word Islam
does not mean ‘peace’. It does not come from ‘salaam’. It means ‘submission’ in
Arabic as in Michal Houellebeen’s book title and islamist killers submit to
preachers who effectively own Islam. (Ref: Renuka Narayanan, HT dt. 11.01.2015)
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