Religion has nothing to with Terrorism.

Many a time, I found myself in a such a difficult situation that I cannot decide what to oppose or what to support. I was in likely similar situation yesterday when two of my friends fought over the involvement of Islam in ISIS or any terrorists' attacks on one of my post I posted yesterday. In fact what I posted was on the Madina attack day-before-yesterday. This is now a days very common argument among the people of different communities blaming Islam over its involvement in terrorist attacks.

I have some other thought about this, or may be some of you agree with me. Back to my friend who was supporting the involvement of Islam in ISIS, he commented that most of the ISIS are Islam, which was rightly opposed by my another friend. Now, what i want say that people simply assume that the terrorists who was caught or killed was simply from Islam. But was he /she actually Islam, we never investigate or we even do not want to do so. It may be possible that the terrorists who were caught falsely declared himself an Islam just to defame the religion. May be there are some other forces behind the attack or may be ISIS is controlled by people of another religion. Anything is possible. Okay, let's agree that most of the ISIS terrorists are Islam. But it does not mean that most of the Muslims are ISIS terrorists, does it? We cannot blame the whole community simply because handful of its members are faulty.

Whenever i hear these type of mean arguments, it hurts me. It hurts me not because people are discussing such things but because the educated class of India is talking this. And i believe whoever starts these discussions have nothing to with the development of the country. They are anti-national forces(including some of the political parties) who try to disturb the communal harmony of the country. I don't want to tell much but I request the people of the country not to fight on such mean topics. We all are the citizens of the same country. We all, irrespective of our caste, colour and religion love India in the same way as a child loves his mother. See, such is the beauty of Indian culture that today we celebrated Rath Yatra and tomorrow it will be Eid. And I promise the whole country will celebrate Eid-ul-fitr in the same way as we celebrate our Independence Day. 

Happy Rath Yatra and Eid-ul-fitr.

- Manish Sharma