READER COMMENTS

The clerics in Ramadan have a moral and religious duty regarding the use of preaching to confront terrorism, which is a scourge to all the societies. The clerics must use their style and the tolerant principles of Islam for the consideration of love, peace and the morality of Islam as well as the preaching about the gravity of terrorism on the society which becomes destroyed and leads to the collapse of the economic sector in the States and the lack of security, stability, and the disruption in the State. The clergy should know that Ramadan is a month of fasting and charity, and a holy month that is likable by all the Muslims. It is a good opportunity to make speeches, seminars and preaching to the people about the dangers of terrorism and its impact and destruction of the communities. The holy month of Ramadan, in which the Muslims seek to do well and to have guidance and charity, is a holy month that should be taken as an intellectual means to the preaching and moral instruction and confrontation of terrorism. The clerics must prepare the good religious discourse that demonstrates the danger of terrorism and that Islam should advocate peace and deny the killing except righteously. Islam is a tolerant religion that calls for social peace, love, brotherhood, and closeness. The elderly have a significant role in the modern life to deliver the Islamic concepts and the religious tolerance to the people and preaching to the terrorists and the extremists to eradicate the religious extremism. The month of Ramadan is a holy month wherein all the mosques and religious rostrum must spread the preaching about the gravity of terrorism and explain how Islam fought against terrorism and forbade violence and murder. Islam is a valuable religion that calls for the respect of the religious values and the clergy must exploit the religious events in preaching as well as the prevention of vice and the call for goodness, tolerance, the rejection of violence, and spreading love and peace among the people. Islam is the religion of peace, truth, justice, tolerance, humanity, love, high moral values, and the religion of good treatment.

The religious preaching has a very great importance. Therefore, without the clergymen and their religious preaching, the Islamic nation would not be able to stand on their own feet. The Islamic nation now is experiencing a great problem because of its dividedness and remoteness from its religion because of the poor education and the deterioration of its conditions. All of these have put the nation in a real trouble and made them vulnerable to the destructive extremist ideas which threaten the security and the stability of the Islamic countries. Extremism has become a big problem that no one can eliminate only by resorting to the religion and its true meaning. Therefore, if the clergymen play their real role, preach and explain to the people their religion and its true meaning as well as clarify to them that Islam is a religion of moderation, their vision will be clear and they will learn that Islam is a religion of tolerance and peace. As such, the crisis that is facing many States will end. Now we are in front of a great opportunity, especially since we are in the holy month of Ramadan that gives a huge opportunity for the clergymen to reach the largest possible number of the Muslims through the sermons in the mosques where the Muslims frequently go or through the television programs where the advocates and the clergy are. They can have access to millions of people through these TV channels and provide advices and guidance to them as well as fight extremism in all its forms, types and colors. Also, there are the religious broadcasts programs which the clergymen can exploit too in transmitting their message, the Islamic religion message which would guide the people to the true meaning of the Islam and that the correct and moderate doctrines of the Islamic religion will spread. Therefore, we put emphasis on the importance of the religious preaching and the importance for the clergymen in fighting extremism and terrorism.

The clergy must take advantage of this holy month to work on preaching and telling the people about the dangers of terrorism and what it can cause to them and to their parents and to let the people know about the risk of terrorism at home. The clergy should concentrate on the references from the Quran and the Sunnah regarding the proscription of the corruption on earth and the Islamic judgment against everyone who causes the spread of corruption. Spreading corruption is one of the major sins. Terrorism has no religion and it exploits the people to implement its dirty purposes in order to achieve its objectives.

Islamic people know the advantages of the holy month of Ramadan and how Allah leads us to the goodness and the tolerance between individuals till the peace prevails in the country. The month of Ramadan is the new start for all Muslims for the entire year. Allah has shown us how Muslims forgive each other and remove the hatred from the hearts of human beings so that he will accept our fasting and deeds in this holy month. So I call all Muslims to exploit this great month so that we may become worthy. I appeal to all clergymen to exploit this month to face extremism of any kind by making Ramadan courses where they call all Muslims and all people and try to give them guidance and advice. They also provide them with Quran verses evidence exploiting this great month because everyone knows how important the clergymen’s words to everyone. They have a great impact in a human being’s soul. I call them and I insist on the importance of establishing Ramadan courses so that they will become the beginning of every month. I wish that they prolong them all year so that they will be able to guide the people always. Through these courses they can face any extremism, any corruption or any evil so that good and peace shall prevail. Love and brotherhood must prevail between all people. Let us thank this holy month of Ramadan, which Allah calls us for, because it is the beginning of an opportunity for the world.

The Iraqi government should have some mercy for the good people of Iraq, and it should take great care of them, and the Iraqi government should take the interests of the people to heart, and confront terrorism and eradicate extremism and terrorism, and the Iraqi government should take more strict and serious measures in confronting terrorism and the extremists, as the government is acting slowly in that regard. And the government should get rid of its corruption and it should give care and protection to the people, and the Iraqi government should serve this people and not itself and its own interests and not for the sake of money and power only, and all of this without any result. We ask the government to work in all earnest in order to get rid of terrorism, extremists and terrorists, by using the most modern methods and very modern ways in hunting down terrorists and capturing them and getting rid of them by execution, because these terrorists have followers in other countries and they could go to Iraq in order to come to the rescue of those among them that are imprisoned and their leaders that are in detention, and they could resume their extremist terrorist activities, and the government will not know who are doing this. The Iraqi government should not release their lowly individuals that are in jails or detention centers in order to keep them away from Iraq and so that they will leave it alone free from conflicts. But this is called the lack of carelessness, and instead of the government intensifying its search for these killers and trying in all earnest and in every way possible to find them and capture them. The Iraqi government is backing down to the terrorists in fear and submission to them, and in such an easy manner, without exerting any pressure on these terrorists.

The whole world in this era is witnessing many and serious terrorist attacks, I think there is no country in the world did not burned by the fire of this epidemic, but among it less or more and with its diversity and variation forms and its templates also who proceed such operations varies from individuals, groups, gangs and countries terrorists, there is no religion of terrorism, no homeland and has no color; In this sense it is the duty of ideology and security scholars to reveal this phenomenon and clear its dimensions to individual and society in general and the nation as a whole.