Around 650 A.D. Prophet Muhammad went on for establishing a religion which he thought would be peaceful and liberate people from the torture of Jewish and Christian Empires, which on the name of religion, used to project King as the ultimate messenger of God. The Kings were generally barbaric and segregated from the emotions of their own subjects. The people were frustrated, angry and hopeless. After the death of Christ, Church had unleashed mayhem on its own people. Females were butchered to death and the Kings later on, in the name of God , stole away the dignity of their own people. It is during these times that Middle East was in chaos and future seemed bleak. Prophet Muhammad was born but was orphaned very soon. He later on went on to establish his religion after revealing that he has been visited by Gabriel. In order to preach his religion, he made agreements from the neighbouring nations like Syria which was a Christian Empire then. But agreements were broken by these egoistic Kings, which led to War and eventual defeat of this barbarian Kings. People, who were frustrated saw hope in Muhammad. Muhammad's teachings enlightened them and again enforced their belief in God, for a very simple reason that, Muhammad said that he is the last prophet of God and "God is one". He always insisted that he is here to spread the message of God like "the other Prophets" have done, for example, Jesus. For Prophet, Christianity was not a different religion but another refined format of Christianity which had been highly compromised after the death of Jesus and hence it needed transformation. For Prophet, reformation was "Islam". It was not a different religion. He didn't kill those who refused to accept Islam but he killed those who rejected, resisted and betrayed Islam. All those Kingdoms who had betrayed the concept of "Children of Israel" were executed. The beginning was not good but the results were better than the past.
Present Day
So why has such a powerful religion which once liberated the people from torture, made them to rule over entire world has now become the reason for debate that why not to eliminate Islam? Why the people in West have got so much issues with this religion that they refuse to accept the children dying on their shore? Why a student from this sect is looked upon with suspicion? Why they are accused of creating ruckus in every country they live in
If one asks me this question, I simply have one line answer : " Its because nowhere they are in majority and wherever they are in majority, their policy is decided by Government which does not belong to their country". After the death of Muhammad, one unfortunate incident occurred which was not that unfortunate till then but it later, after 1000 of years, is making them to pay the actual price. After death of Muhammad, Islam was guided by three Caliphs which one big community of Islam denied to accept. This community later came to be known as "Shia" and their half brothers were those who believed these Caliphs and came to be known as Sunnis. Later on, states in Middle East were formed on this basis. So wherever, Shia were in majority, Sunni were in minority and vice versa.
This one difference, made them so vulnerable to external interference, that after the fall of Ottoman Empire, the Islamic countries became mere puppets at the hands of Western Powers. Never ever the game of Christianity vs Sunni vs Shia was played because issue was not religion but the issue was OIL. Most of the fortune 500 companies belong to this sector and their revenue is so high that they can en-gulp 9-10 companies which offer similar salaries to their employees. What it meant that if one had control over Oil, then one had control over the economy of this WHOLE WORLD.
Gautam Buddha once said :
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
And then began the game, game of proxy wars, game of money because it was very important particularly when most of the colonies were now self ruled state. Saudi Arabia was created in 1932. Up-till late 1950s these countries were doing good. There was human rights, girls were free in main cities and towns, they had their say. In Western World, the problem with this religion were racial but not "ideological". Being a Muslim was not an issue but being Asian, being poor, being African was.
When the authorities of these nations nationalised oil in their nation, the Western eyebrows were raised. Coup were orchestrated against the elected government of nations like that of Iran and the situation got even worse after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The region went into tormoil as Saudi was busy in projecting itself as the sole "contractor of Islam" and was always being encouraged by US and Europe. Saudis had no issue until then with the Iranians but from the late 1970s, the tensions flared because the Westerners didn't let loose any single moment to brew up the fire. They encouraged the fire with their proxy setups. West was engaged in continuous proxies at that time. They had failed to learn lessons from the Vietnam War and the irony was this that they still continued to call themselves as the masters and the most powerful.
The worst happened when Westerners trained some fighters to harm USSR interests. It is here that the table were turned against the Westerners and later on against the whole Muslim World. The fighters whom they had trained, later on wore the mask of "Zihad" and butchered Westerners themselves. The unfortunate incident of 9/11/2001 in which thousands of US people died (innocent because they had not voted their government for their death), turned the table against Muslims. After that series of terrorist attacks started and the religion which had once aspired to bring peace on to the region, brought havoc instead. The war mongers used Holy Quran and the idea of Wahabbism to unleash Zihad against their own people. The rest was done by US and NATO when they entered soils of Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and so on.
I am not talking much about India because the conflict among Muslims and Hindus in India is more about the vague idea of what we call as freedom from "British Empire". The Britishers ruled this nation for 150 years because of only one fact : Tipu loosed to Britishers. Tipu was a Muslim who was denied aid from the neighbouring Maratha Kingdoms. That virus still infects us. Its more than 200 years since that incident.
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