Killing and murder in the name of Islam

Killing and murder in the name of Islam
The alleged killing of BBC reporter Alan Johnson by an unknown Islamic group and the suicide bombing in Casablanca and the truck bombs in Algeria added to the daily suicide bombing and murder in Iraq, and the beheading of the Afghani translator by the Taliban are but a symptoms of what is wrong with Islam today.
For a long time, Islamic Jihad was dormant, until the Reagan administration and the CIA decided to revive it and with it the Afghan Mujahedeen became a household name in Arab and Muslim homes. Jihad became mission for many of those recruited by CIA agents with the cooperation of Arab governments who no doubt where getting a “commission” on every recruit that was heading to Afghanistan.
Suicide bombing and martyrdom became a mission from Casablanca to Kabul, passing through Riyadh, Gaza, Jerusalem Amman, Cairo, Lexuor, and of course the daily suicide bombing in Iraq became a culture, nurtured by a group of Muslim clerics who finally discovered their role and mission within an Islamic society for the most part ignorant and illiterate.
When young, desperate, poor, illiterate and drug addicted young men and women become human time bombs armed with a suicide belt raises many questions as to who stand behind all of these suicide bombing and the killings and murder of thousands of innocent people. No one simply go out and decide to become a suicide bomber. Someone must be the brain behind all of these suicide bombings. Who and what they are for sure is a puzzle that many heads of security agencies in countries like Morocco, Algeria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia would like to know?
To commit suicide without the intent of killing any one else is a simple task. One only needs to take an overdose of drugs or jump off a bridge or a tall building and they can commit suicide easy. But to commit suicide with intent to kill others is a process that takes too many players and requires sophisticated logistics, in addition to recruiting and brain washing these poor misfits.
The brains behind the killings and murder of innocent people are sophisticated well organized, well funded with access to places, like mosques and drug infested corners where they are able to recruit and send these young misfits and ignorant people to a mission to hell while they sit comfortably at home or at the mosque waiting for the next victim.
Suicide missions as a culture of death is new and strange to Islam and Muslims, especially when suicide itself is simply wrong or “haram” in Islam. Not so sure where the idea came about and who promoted it. However one thing for sure, Afghanistan was and is the breeding ground for such culture of death. And one has to go back to the roots of such culture and one has to go back to the Reagan administration with its mission of using Jihad as a way to defeat the Soviet and drive them out of Afghanistan.
Now with so many Muslim clerics appearing on television and in the media as heads of groups and organizations one has to raise the questions, since when Muslim clerics play a prominent role in society. I thought this is a Christian and Jewish phenomenon but not a Muslim one, since religious leaders in both Christianity and Judaism play major role in society and the lives of people. But not in Islam. In the Quran is no such class of people.
In my mind and in my view these Muslim clerics are the scrooge that is the cancer, spreading a culture not known in Islam. With a total absence of democracy and freedom in the Arab world, the only place where there is or perhaps a room to speak out was the mosque and of course the mosques are the domain of Muslim clerics. These Muslim clerics are working so hard these days to create a special “class” and status for themselves. Arab and Muslim democracies have to reckon with this class of religious professionals who want to make sure they are the “reference or marja’a” in society. Perhaps it is time to pull the carpet from underneath these clerics and send them back for some education and introduction starting with Islam 101, and reminding them of Allah’s words that those who kill an innocent life is like killing an entire humanity. One need to remind the clerics of Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algerian and Saudi Arabia that we need Muslim clerics that teach the world and us true Islam, not an Islam where they are the center of the universe, and where the true words of Allah are supreme.