THE DIFFERENCE

While watching a TV program on the History Channel, for the first time I saw the great difference between the two major religions in my country. Living in India I have come across and spoken to a good number of Muslims. I have gone to school and college with them and to me they seem to be a normal group of people, who learn to read and write, they have faith in God and they are scared of him more then anything or anyone.

But as I said, I was watching a program on the Hindu’s “Kumbha Mela” and immediately after that I saw a documentary on Al-Queda. While watching the Kumbha Mela there were talks about God in peace, love and joy. Whereas the Al-Queda message was also about God, but some how there was only violence and killing in the name of God.
In one of the statement I heard an Al-Queda member along with Osama-Bin-Laden say that 4 million Americans have to die, out which 2 million have to be children. At that given moment I started wondering how could they have thought that killing innocent people, who don’t believe in Islam, they would get them a place in heaven.

It seems to me that they care more about their lives after death then the ones they have now. To me the power of giving and taking of lives is in the hands of God and no human being, even if he thinks that God has told him to or given him the right to, has that power. I feel that if you want to show that you are a messenger of God and that spreading the message is the way of your life, then do so. But do so in a clam, peaceful way and you will see that more and more people will come your way to learn from you.

But by force and killing you will only increase the negative. People will start looking at your belief in a negative light. They will resist you. It is important to carry your knowledge forward and spread it, but by killing and forcing, people will move away and will tell people to stay away from you and your group.

God as far as I know wants to spread love and peace through Islam. Unfortunately some misguided Muslims are spreading terror.
I had a Muslim friend who would ask me “Why as a Hindu I always looked at the negative group of Muslim’s and not at the normal simple Muslims, living their life’s in a peaceful way.” At that time I didn’t have an answer to that question, but today I think I have an answer. “When the most powerful groups- the Al-Queda, SIMI, Indian Mujahedin and other terrorist group are showing us that they only believe in violence, killing and force. How can we see anything positive, You are what you leader is right?
How may of their famous non Al-Queda leaders have said something about peace in a peaceful, non-aggressive manner. Their aggressive nature has always come out even when they talk about being peaceful, non-aggressive people. I would like to question the Al-Queda leader who said that 2 million adults and 2 million children have to be killed, what would be achieved after their killing?

What wrong has been done by the innocent people being killed ? The answer may be that they are Non-Muslims and by killing them we will find a place in heaven for ourselves.

So does this not show that Islam is no more about Peace. It must have been about peace when Prophet Mohammed was alive but now its only about JEHAD. Jehad not in terms of the fight against ones own negative but JEHAD as in the killing of non-Muslims.

To tell you the truth I believe that there is only one God, but not in a narrow minded way of some of the Muslims. I hope in the future I get to learn more about Islam because I am sure that under all the dust that is on the surface Islam is one of the most beautiful religions today.
I hope someday this fight between religions stops, we all with our different faiths, beliefs and traditions live together in a happy and peaceful world. Cause somewhere in our hearts we all know that we are “THE ONE WORLD FAMILY”