Justice & peace

Justice is essential feeling for human to live in peace with himself and with other people around him. Missing justice means, missing security, losing needs and that will increase the fear of death inside the human.

Any feelings of injustice can affect human behavior very much. "Man can not live by bread alone" Or water and air either! Human feelings are more important than that, When a person feels that he has justice he is happy and secure but when he has big feelings of injustice this can lead to massive stress in a persons life and if they are sad and with out hope of change and it goes on for a long time, it can even lead to death. So why do you think the absence of justice would have such a big effect on a person's life?

I'll answer that question, but before I'd like to explain that my thinking is based on my humanistic philosophy not on political or religious thinking.

Like I explained before as a human being continues his life he has to deal with many fears, the fear of death, that fear of not having enough money to buy the things he needs to help him to continue his life and look after his family, missing of any part of his needs will increase his fears and insecurities. Sometimes this is caused by nature, for example by disasters and some time by the actions of others, either injustice of the system we live in or unfair actions and this is sometimes combined with force (violence).

Let me give you a simple example; imagine with me that there was a human, we will call him Z, who found good land for fro growing crops; he worked hard on it to raise his crops so he would have food. Unfortunately there was another human, we will call him X, who lived near our friend Z, X has more power than Z and he also needs food so he uses his power to take Z’s food, now we would call that theft.

After that it was logical that Z felt injustice because he lost his food, and was treated as if he had no rights, I mean he didn’t gain any exchange for his food it was just taken from him, and he lost an essential thing which he needed for his family to exist (food). How do you think that Z feels now and what can he do??? Of course he must find another source of food to continue looking after his family, secondly he may try to get back his food from X. Maybe he’ll try and speak with X about the problem and encourage him to return the food back to him, if that doesn’t work maybe Z will suggest to X to give some him some of his food (sharing). If all that will not work I think Z will seek help from another source (police, the law, or his friends and family). But if all of that doesn’t work its possible that Z will use his physical power against X (violence) to restore his rights.

Justice means equality in sharing live resources. God created every thing in the universe including the human. Every thing exists before us, but with our existence and our needs for things in the life, we faced big problem as humans to use things or to have what we need to continue our life. For that we created many systems to share that using or to distribute things with equality between humans. Any defectiveness in that equality will lead to injustice feelings and turbulences in life of humans. I think the injustice is the reason for all our conflicts as humans on Planet Earth.

Arabs and terrorism,

One example of injustice and its aftermath is the situation of Arabs in last century and especially after colonialism as I mentioned before. The Arabs suffered much under this system. The Arabs wouldn’t submit to the colonists and felt they had to resist by any means in their power. There were struggles for independence, for freedom and to have justice all over the Arabic homeland.

That conflict and struggle started many revolutions, and social and political movements. The most famous movement was what the Colonialists called the 'Islamic fundamental movement'. Examples of these parties were Hisb Alakhwan Al moslmeen in Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood) Hisb Aldaawa in Iraq.

These movements started as social societies or groups, around 1924 with the collapse of the "Caliph" the Islamic system of government, and the declaration of war against all forms of Islam by colonialism in the Muslim countries.

In the beginning those groups didn't use violence, they tried to bring more people to their side by getting involved in social and charity affairs in the community. Like with Alakhwan Al moslmeen, which was a religious-political movement in Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood) founded in 1928 at Isma'iliyah, by Hasan al-Banna' (1906 - 1949). There were another non-Islamic parties at the time also, like some parties adopted nationalism ideologies and socialism ideologies. All those parties were united in their opposition of the rule in the Arabic countries, but the Islamic parties emerged as the strongest, these Islamic parties refused to accept the existence of the colonialists and their Arab rulers and at the same time opposed the presence of the Zionist occupation in Palestine.

Despite the presence of nationalism and various secular ideologies in their midst, Muslims wish to live in the modern world but without imitating blindly the ways of the West. The Islamic world wishes to live at peace with the West as well as the East but at the same time not to be dominated by them. It wishes to devote its resources and energies to building a better life for its people on the basis of the teachings of Islam and not to squander its resources in either internal or external conflicts. It seeks finally to create better understanding with the West and to be better understood by the West. The destinies of the Islamic world and the West cannot be totally separated and therefore it is only in understanding each other better that they can serve their own people more successfully and also contribute to a better life for the whole of humanity.

But the colonialists and the regimes in the Arabic countries used maximum force against their opponents (resistance), using extreme force against the Iraqis at the 1920 revolution and also in the situation in Palestine (the Zionists tried to use maximum force against Palestinian even before 1948).

With the instructions of Said kqottob in Egypt the conflict took a bloody course, "We are at the crossroads. We may join the march at the tail of the Western caravan... Or we may return to Islam and make it fully effective in the field of our own life, spiritual, intellectual, social and economic...

"Conditions today are favorable because of the birth of two great new Islamic blocs in Indonesia and Pakistan, and because of the awakening of the Arab world, both East and West. The ultimate issue is with Allah; our duty is to trust in Him, and to have faith."

By Sayyid Qutb 1950 (1906-66);

A theoretician for the Muslim Brotherhood, Qutb was executed in Egypt in 1966. Since then, his works have gained in popularity, so that he is now considered the most effective Islamic critic of the West and the most eloquent advocate of pan-Islamic revival. Pupils of his include assassinated president, Anwar Sadat in 1981.

With the absence of democracy and any good judicial system in all of the Arabic countries where the regimes were ruled by dictators and governed with the force of the military and secret police. The opponents faced despotism, killing and torture in prisons. Because all of that they decided to leave the Arabic countries looking for a good place to work against the Arabic rulers. That was the same for Islamic and non-Islamic oppositions.

With the beginning of the colonialism in the Arabic countries there was refusal for that colonialism and occupation. At the beginning it was called ‘resistance’, at the last 3 decades of last century that resistance had been called in the political terminology of Arabic rulers “extremism”, now it’s been called ‘terrorism’.

If we look to history we will find that those extremist or fundamentals or terrorists just used the same weapons but with different strategies, I’ll call them extremists until we will agree on a monotheist definition for ‘terrorism’.