READER COMMENTS

The Friday speeches are very important in spreading awareness among the people and they have great influence on the society. If you made the terrorism the topic of the speeches to raise the people’s awareness and immunize their minds from thoughts of terrorism and God’s punishment to those who spread violence and panic among the people. This leads to the increase in the number of enemies of Islam and hatred of Islam and the Muslims.

The weekly sermons on Friday have great and significant role in facing terrorism and extremism in all their forms and elements. Religious discourse has a great impact on correcting the false concepts of some people about religion and understanding its origins in a way that insults it and it is a chance to gather the largest number of people every week to address these concepts.

No one doubted that the Friday preacher had an influential role on the people as he is the role model living before them. The people imitate and learn from him the things related to their religion and then the preacher directs his attention to eliminate terrorism and to clarify its risks and how it incorporates the destruction and the devastation of the whole mankind.

The Friday sermons have great importance in spreading the awareness and the preaching among the people, and they will have significant impact in the society if they talk about the terrorism as a subject to spread the awareness among the people and to fortify their minds from its ideas. Allah will give punishment for the spread of horror and panic among the people, which will lead to the increase of the number of the enemies to the Islam and the Muslims.

The religious speeches must focus on raising the awareness of the citizens about the danger of the threat of terrorism and the destruction that is spread by the terrorist movements. Terrorism caused much bloodshed and it led to the fall of many States. The Friday sermons must tackle the States that suffer from the destruction because of Iraq, where terrorism became rampant and out of control until today. The Iraqi Government is unable to stop the terrorists from spreading across the country. If terrorism had control over us, it would endanger our lives and would fill the minds of our children with ideas that were against their homes. There should be suitable programs to raise the people’s awareness to protect our children from the danger of terrorism.

The Friday sermon is very important in the religious preaching against terrorism. Terrorism, which is a blight and a threat to the civilized societies in the world, is a result of the extremism, the injustice, the violence, the oppression, the chauvinism, and the extremism of the ideas. Terrorism causes the death, the destruction, the havoc and the violence. It is a deadly phenomenon that must be confronted with the religious preaching and the guidance. Terrorism is a big problem that must be addressed and get rid of until the community can live in safety. The Friday sermon is necessary to unify the religious speech and so that the Sheiks can guide the people to the lofty doctrines which they must uphold to in order to confront and eliminate the terrorism. The Sheiks and the preachers have to take advantage of the Friday sermons to spread the tolerant Islamic doctrines. The semiotic Islamic goals must be spread which are the social, the justice and the democracy. The people in the world must know about the terrorist threat and that the terrorists must be arrested and have a trial. The heinous terrorist crimes from which the babies’ hair turns gray must be faced by the religious or the security treatment. Concerning the religious treatment, there must be a refuge to the religious preaching through the Friday sermon. For the security treatment, there must be a support to the police and counterterrorist forces with all the necessary weapons until the security confrontation is done to eradicate all the terrorist foci. Terrorism is a destructive process that leaves behind it the bombings, the psychological pain and the different material effects. Terrorism must be confronted and eliminated for its devastating impact on the societies. Terrorism must be confronted because it is a negative and dangerous phenomenon that is causing the damages to the societies. Most of the major countries in the world have suffered from terrorism, mass destruction and the scourge of terrorism, as they have tasted the taste of death, the murder and the bloody massacres that spread as a result of the bloody terrorist bombings. Therefore, the Sheiks must intensify the religious preaching until the intellectual confrontation toward terrorism

The Friday sermons have a very prominent role in purifying and enlightening the minds of the Muslim people and the community. The Friday sermon is like a permanent weekly meeting for the Muslims where the Friday prayers is a weekly occasion for the Muslims in which the number of worshippers increases in the mosques and the spirit of love and fraternity among the Muslims spread. The Friday prayers have a very special position in the hearts of all the Muslims and even the less religiously committed who try to commit themselves to go to the Friday prayers. Hence, the prominent role of the Friday sermon and the extent of its capacity to exploit it will achieve very useful things for the Muslim societies. It is quite possible that the Friday sermons aim in a given period to combat the religious extremism, the terrorism, the terrorist movements, and the extremist groups, and all this will certainly benefit the entire Islamic nation. The Friday sermons have great influence on the Islamic culture where their role is very important and very prominent. Most of the Muslims’ culture depend on the knowledge they are gaining at the Friday sermon in the mosque and from the preacher.

Friday sermons must be well exploited against terrorism. We must make use of religious preaching against extremism and terrorism. We must rely on religious preaching to protect civilians from extremism and terrorism. People pay the price of terrorism. The latter spreads death, destruction, devastation and injustice. Sheikhs and religious scholars must carry out religious preaching to protect communities from the threat of terrorism and its problems. In all societies, dissension is the result of extremism and clinging to one’s views and rejecting others’ views. Sheikhs must help Muslim communities to eradicate dissension. The acts of killing, destruction and devastation are major crimes. People can hardly bear the destruction left behind by terrorism. Religious preaching is the intellectual treatment of these problems. There is dissension and may God curse the one who has ignited it. May God curse injustice and darkness. The dissension existing in Arab societies as a result of sectarian differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites is a dangerous issue. Thus, religious preaching is the solution to community development and to the promotion of different communities. It is among the most important methods used to fight terrorism and destruction caused by it. We must eradicate terrorism in all communities through religious preaching and through Friday sermons. We must convey a strong and clear message that terrorism is not welcome throughout the world and that it must be fought and eradicated.

What the people hear in the Friday sermons and prayers every week has a strong effect in our society due to the large number of worshippers So the Friday sermons have effective influences and an important role in changing the ways of thinking of many in our society. Also, it is spreading awareness and homilies among the people about the risks of something specific; for example, if we talk about the dangers of terrorism. So if the subject of the Friday sermon in every mosque is based on transmitting the idea about the gravity of terrorism to the people and preaching of its dangers on the community in general and on themselves, their relatives and properties, and from the danger that is threatening theirs and their children’s lives, which has an effect on society in general. Terrorism with its heinous crimes affect negatively on all the aspects of life in the State. It influences significantly on the security of the country, the economy of dependency, on tourism and on production too. Its impact is a negative factor on the society as a whole. So there must be an effective confrontation to these crimes, and the raising of awareness among the people about the seriousness of terrorist crimes and helping them take heed to protect themselves, their families and properties. In our community, the media, the newspapers, the Friday sermons, and the religious and political meetings, which are done by the scientists with different categories of the public figures are the means of awareness. There are several means that help in spreading awareness and the homilies among the people have a significant impact on the society and the general public.

It is very useful to preoccupy people by acquiring the religious knowledge in order to prevent their radicalization. In fact, the intellectual vacuum experienced by people in general and youth in particular, leads them to fall prey to radical ideas. Thus, people need clerics in order to understand the rulings of their religion properly and prevent the deviant and extremist thought that leads to violence and terrorism.

We note that the family plays an important role in shaping human behavior of individuals, and thus their human character. For this reason, the self and personal traits are social constructs. They are made up of human interaction with the environment in various ages of the human life. Accordingly, the social and psychological background of the individual is very important in determining the behavioral patterns and the social interaction with others. Thus, the individuals usually seek to belong to groups and gangs in order to satisfy their desire for the sense of belonging and familiarity. Indeed, humans need compatibility and harmony when dealing with others. Whenever, the individuals feel isolated or away from their families, they tend to develop a desperate need for these alternative groups in order to substitute what is missing in their lives. Thus, those terrorist groups are always trying to satisfy that need through introducing these individuals to the values and standards of their group. Such values and principles contradict with the social and religious principles of their community. The damage lies in the commitment of those individuals to a certain social behavior which is consistent with the values and standards of the group and abandonment of the important principles of their societies. We should conclude that parents must never act in a way that would make the children feel that they are unwanted. The children should not feel neglected, rebuked and ostracized at a frequent rate. These acts have a detrimental impact on the psychological and social development of children as well as their mental health individual at a later stage in general.

The impact of the religious preaching in Ramadan and throughout the year is very important to eliminate the terrorism. All the clergymen and the religious program presenters must focus on sending a message to the young people and to the community, explaining to them the extremism, the violence and the excessive adherence to the ideas because of which the extremism and the violence are causing harm to the societies.

Supposedly, the role of the educational institutions is great and it comes next to the role of the mother and the father in order. There is no doubt that the role of the school represents the director that makes the tendencies of the youth and their intellectual improvement. Hence, the educational institutions play a key role in the educational guidance and the protection from this hateful phenomenon. The great role of the teacher in directing the students at the different stages and ages is very influential in deciding the direction of the children. Hence, it has become necessary to increase the interestedness in work and to create curricula to activate the factors of the sound thinking for the student, while he receives his education. Of course, this needs educational qualification in order to start with a good starting point in the educational direction of the coming generations. What we find today in the public schools is sorrowful because it is no longer than cramming of the information and the relationship between the student and these information ends with the exam papers and we can hardly find and positive influence of the information in the life of the citizens. Most of the students these days study to pass the exam only and they do not benefit in any way in their life as to the nature of his work or future. All of this happens because of the absence of any mechanism for follow-up to maintain this information and make use of them. Hence, it is the responsibility of the state to activate the tools of learning and its methods to make its role active in our life and in the educational guidance and protection from the deviant thoughts that became widespread among the youth without any need of a collective measure regarding this important issue. The difficulty of the tests and exams do not prove that the student can get the information but it makes him belittle this information and never believe in them. The high-school exams in Egypt this year was the most complicated ever as the students said after getting out of the exams.