Extremism
\r\nExtremism has become globalized not only in the Muslim lands but also in the West. Aggressive policies and unbridled militarism over Palestine and Iraq should stop pushing Muslims into extremism. This can also be said of oppressive totalitarian governments in the Muslim lands. Violence and tyranny cannot be expected to provide solutions; they are the problem. Obviously there is a disconnection between the West and Islam whereby misunderstanding finds new grounds on both sides. Suicide bombing is an extremely disturbing and totally unprecedented phenomenon. No one in the fourteen centuries of Islam has included it in the meaning of martyrdom or Jihad. It is wrong to violate innocent life whatever the rest of the argument may be. It is also true that anyone who resorts to suicide bombing does so in absolute despair, loss of faith in humanity and basic collapse of common reason. The crimes of 11 September 2001 were crimes of political protest, they were not something inexplicable. They represented a final collapse of the centuries-old cosmopolitan conversation with Islam.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n \"Shariah Law - An Introduction\" - Mohammad Hashim Kamali, p. 219