That’s more like it.
Moderate Muslims in the UK are fighting back. Literally.
A radical Islamist trying to stir up trouble in the UK and trying to recruit new members to his “Future Terrorists of the UK Club” (I made that up.) was beat up by moderate Muslims who want him to stop making them look bad.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating violence but it’s certainly better than the moderate Muslims just going on about how the radical extremists aren’t real Muslims, Islam is peace, stop being a racist, we’re not all like that, blah, blah, blah.
What I would like to see is moderate, sensible, modern Muslims to counter protest whenever Islamists are promoting their agenda. Wouldn’t you like to see Muslims screaming at other Muslims to stop being so stupid and embarassing?
It is true that behind every mass movement or idea, an ‘ism’ is attached. This ‘ism’ is often coherent with the ideology of the followers or a name quoted by media. It is the media, who have reserved the word ‘terrorism’ exclusively for Jihadis! All others who are involved in such activities are given different ‘isms’ that either glorify their work or softens their acts of terror!
So terrorists in Jharkhand are called ‘maoists’ or ‘naxals’. Terrorists in the north-eastern states are called ‘militants’. Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka are dubbed as ‘tigers’ while the Irish terrorists were ‘separatists’. Terrorists in Africa are ‘insurgents’, The Cuban terrorists were ‘rebels’, the Hungarian ones were ‘extremists’, the Chinese terrorists are ‘radicals’ and the American terrorists are ‘counter-insurgents’. The Israeli terrorists are ‘commandos’ and the communist terrorists are ‘revolutionaries’