Does Islam Encourages Conflict And Terrorism As Well As...

This section aims to establish whether Islam encourages conflict and terrorism as well as establish why Islam is under the limelight and seen as a violent religion. This section of my project will be employing statistical and thematic analysis strategies so a better understanding can be made to the empirical data gathered. Within exploring my research, diverse themes stood out. A range of 30 News articles were coded identifying negative depiction. (See Figure 1:5) Islamophobia attacks have risen tremendously, nevertheless there has been very petite outcry from the public. Public figures including Prime minister and MP’s have not done a lot to bring religions together. These incidents, have become a norm in today’s society, with an†¦show more content†¦(Huffington 2015) Nonetheless it can be argued that the Muslim population consists of 1.6 billion people, if they were â€Å"radicalised†, this would have been easily noticeable. Muslim could do a lot as a religion if they were to try and impose their religion or resent non-believers. Another point to argue is if Islam, indeed depicted violence, then why it is that victims of Islamophobia incidents do not respond back with brutality, the question to understand is why is an assault not responded with more assault. Another point to highlight is currently Middle Eastern countries including Syria, Palestine and Burma, whose majority population is Muslims are abused, brutalised and tortured, yet why that is Muslims have stayed silent and not responded back with force to Assad’s regime and ISIS. This may be as the Quran mentions that anger and violence is not the way to respond but with patience and prayers. (Sahih Muslim) Misinterpretation of the term â€Å"Jihad† Jihad has been exaggerated and taken out of context by western media. Jihad, means â€Å"struggle for one self†. Muslims believe the biggest negativity in their life is their own ego and their nature. Our basic features, can cause us to inflict harm to others, which is the most unforgivable crime in Islamic teachings. A key feature could be our mouths, the Quran emphasises on recurrence that our words are very powerful and can cause harm to others i.e.