Islam is an Arabic word meaning “peace.” When Muslim meet each other, greets with “Assalm-o-Elaikum”, meaning “Peace be upon you”. Holy Quran is full of the teaching of Peace, and Holy Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him has been preaching for Peace throughout his life.
“In a major development that should silence critics of Islam who have been blaming it for terrorism, UNESCO has declared that Islam is the most peaceful religion of the world.”
The United Nations body released a statement earlier today that revealed that UNESCO had partnered with the International Peace Foundation six months back to study all religions of the world and find out which was mostly peaceful amongst all. “After six months of rigorous study and analysis, we have concluded that Islam is the most peaceful religion,” Robert McGee, head of comparative studies wing of International Peace Foundation declared in a press conference that was attended by UNESCO officials too.
Islam has a history of 1500 years and has been living and promoting “Peace” until 2001, when 9/11 incident happened. Although, there are many conflicting reports on the incidents that why no single Jew was inside the building, the victims were only non-Jews, etc. Although many contrary reports appeared later on, just after the incident happened, US declared the start of Crusade and held Muslims responsible, without having gone through appropriate investigations or reliable pieces of evidence.
Attacks on Sudan, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and Libya, by US lead allies were only targeted to the Muslim world. US spent US Dollars 6 Trillion on the war on terror against the Muslim world, killed 2 million Muslims, displaced 6 million Muslims from their homes, either to neighboring countries or to safe places in their own homes. Tons of explosive used against Muslims, their property, houses, businesses, agriculture, the industry was destroyed. Launched cyber-attacks, destroyed their social structures, family system, moral values, and damaged the fabric of the whole society. Spread fake news, negative propaganda, created hate and promoted intolerance. Created ISIS, Al-Qaida, Taliban, etc, armed them, trained them, exploited them and finally condemned them. All such engineered things were only to damage Muslims. Muslims were the victims and projected as terrorists. Unfair! Extremely unfair! Muslims did not initiate World War I or II, Muslims were not responsible for Atomic Bombs dropped on Nagasaki or Hiroshima in Japan, Muslims were not involved in killings of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, Muslims have no role in killing of 20 million of Aborigines in Australia, Muslims were not responsible for killing of 100 million of Indians in North and South America, Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and 88% of them died and were thrown overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. In fact, Muslims are the victim of Terrorism. Bias media is falsely projecting Muslims as Terrorists. Media is controlled by West, and over-engaged in distorting Muslim image. Islamophobia! “When asked about the terror attacks being carried out in the name of Islam, including the recent ones in Dhaka and Baghdad, the UNESCO official denied that it had anything to do with Islam.” “Terror has no religion,” UNESCO, “Islam means peace.”
There are 57 Muslim countries, one of the biggest organization after the UN is OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries). One out of every 5th person is Muslim. Muslim countries are blessed with
an abundance of natural resources, especially the energy sector: Oil and Gas. The US and its allies have greedy to control the natural resources, especially oil wealth of the Muslim world.
There is an old saying in China ““There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.” Confucius Chinese Philospher.
Islam means “Peace”, we believe in peace and promote peace. We share one world, we need to live with each other in harmony. We must respect humanity and respect each other’s religion. Avoid fake news, false propaganda, and join hands to make this earth a better place to live. After all, we all have the responsibility to hand over a better world to our children, to our next generation, we must sense our obligation and full-fill our duty.
“Right Wing organizations should stop maligning Islam and Muslims at least after this report from UNESCO,” our founder editor hoped.
Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomate), Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.