:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
(Peace be upon you)
IRL I'm busy right ATM and *sighs* so I really shouldn't participate in this thread as I can't meaningfully participate here on IB for at least quite a few days including replying to other threads to which I'd wanted to reply, but I'll briefly mention that I did read something to that effect on
Yahoo! News when I'd logged in just a few minutes ago!
Absolutely terrible! Can't believe Angela Merkel and Germany are being repaid this way by some crazies! Now, of course, we don't know so far from the info given that the shooter is Muslim(maybe, maybe not?) but do even Muslims honestly when reading such news now think that it is anyone other than a wanna-be-martyr nonpracticing self-confessed Muslim?
Daesh IRL might be losing territory but their ideology has unloosed the mental screws in some Muslim youth living worthless lives by brainwashing them into wrongly believing that the best way to get a free pass into Heaven is to kill as many innocent people as possible and in the process commit suicide by state. Islam forbids both suicide and promises Hell-fire for martyrs with wrong intentions, but of course
Daesh doesn't tell them that truth because it is highly inconvenient and not amenable to the cause. Moreover, these brainwashed youth don't know that
Daesh has made no secret of the fact that these crazies are only a Machiavellian means to an end. In fact,
Daesh does not care about even their own organization's looming end as long as the hitherto undeclared war against Muslims is brought home to also Western Muslims.
Daesh has admitted that they want crazed Muslims to commit murderous rampages in the West so that the West takes action against the Muslims living in the West and unleashes the power of the state's wrath on them so that the Muslims who do not accept extremism will no longer able to withstand the "heat" and finally have no choice but to either subject themselves to the state's injustices or join them. Now, the problem with this theory of
Daesh is that it assumes that there are only two sides for any Muslim to choose - the West that will (sooner or later) take away Muslims' civil liberties or
Daesh.
Except
Daesh has proven itself as a heinous, evil, murderous political organization and choosing it is not an option. In fact, Prophet :saws: (peace and blessings be upon him) even described the Syrian conflict as such: "A trial will arise in Arabia which will not spare a single household." This has come to pass. And
Daesh, part of the Syrian conflict, are certainly a trial for the globe ATM.
So, I think honestly most Muslims will choose option C, which is neither and simply choose to hide their faith from public view: Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) said, "A time will come when the hypocrites will live secretly among you, and
the faithful will try to live their religion in secret among others."
:wa: (And peace be upon you)