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Islam's,
other religions' and modern civilization's position with war
Some have
tended to criticize Islam for it allows war and even orders it to put an end to
the domination of injustice and oppression, help the oppressed and establish a
social atmosphere of freedom where the truth can be preached. This critics is
completely unjust, for first of all it is not Islam that introduced the war
into the human history. Second, if this critics comes from the Christians,
Matthew (10: 34-36) records Jesus to have said: “Do not suppose that I have
come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
For I have to turn a main against his father, a daughter against her mother, a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—a man’n enemies will be the members
of hiw own household.” Since Christianity has brought no rules for war, the
wars in the Christendom have been much more bloody and ruthless. It can also be
said that, apart from the Crusades, Christianity provided a means for the
merciless colonization of two third of the world by the Western powers in
previous centuries. Graham Fuller and Lesser (Graham E. Fuller, Ian O. Lesser,
Kuşatılanlar-Islam ve Batı’nin Jeopolitiği, trans. Ö. Arikan, Istanbul, 1996,
pp. 41-42) records that the Christians killed by Muslims during Islam’s history
of 14 centuries are less in number than the Muslims killed by Christians in
only the 20th century. Christianity began its assaults on Islam when the latter
was a still a bud in Madina. The first generation of Muslims had to encounter a
Byzantine army of 100.000 soldiers in Mu’ta with only 3.000 warriors in the 8th
year of Hijra. One year later, the Messenger had to muster all his power
against them, which was recorded by history as the Campaign to Tabuk; and three
years later, the Muslim and Byzantine forces encuntered once more in Yarmuk,
which ended in a decisive defeat of the Byzantines.
As for the
Judaism, a few quotations from the Bible are enough to see its position with
war and compare this position with that of Islam: “When Sihon and all his army
came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, the Lord our God delivered him over to
us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. At that
time we took all his towns and completelydestroyed them – men, women and
children. We left no survivors. But the livestock and the plunder from the
towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves... So the Lord our God also
gave into our lands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down,
leaving no survivors. At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of
the sixty cities that we did not take from them... We completely destroyed
them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city – men,
women and children.” (Deuteronomy, 2:32-35; 3:3-4, 6) The crimes that have been
committed for years by modern Israel are known to everybody in the world.
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