By Khabrein.info Correspondent,
New Delhi,March 29: Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi-based publishing house Saturday released an important book on America’s war on terror titled, Bedevilled World. The book discusses as to how America has tried to defame Islam in the garb of terrorism and has used it as a pretext to target Muslim nations in Asia and Africa.
The author Prof. Azharul Islam, a former Vice Chancellor of the International Islamic University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh says that Islam has been accused for every evil, every incident of terrorism, every action of some splinter groups in remote corners of the world. Islam has been portrayed as a savage religion, bent upon destroying world.
He says that this unjust portrayal of Islam (a Divine Religion) is in sharp contrast to Christian groups responsible for atrocities or terrorist attacks throughout the century up to the present time. For these Christianity is hardly named or blamed in world media. Basque separatists, IRA, Ku Klux Klan, other terrorists groups or individuals including Oklahoma city bomber 27-year old Timothy James McVeigh (168 were killed on 19 April, 1995) in countries like Britain, Germany, Lebanaon, North or South America or elsewhere in the world are never called Christian terrorists and Christianity is never blamed for their actions. President Bush’s so-called multi-billion dollar ‘war on terror’ in the last few years has failed to contain terrorism.
The author suggests that the so-called ‘war on terror’ should have been fought alongside the ‘war on global injustice’. Something about redressing global injustice, Muslim plight, bigotry, attack on Islam should be addressed genuinely. One should clearly understand that ‘fault’ does not entirely rest on a group or a smaller country but on the most powerful nation and the colonial powers for their imperialistic behaviour. A manifesto that seeks to enforce ‘Western hegemony and cultural imperialism’ through an archaic policy of ‘divide and rule’ is probably hard to win friends, though it is sure to create more enemies.
The author says that the world has a good example in Bangladesh where the government has fought openly against terrorist activities of some fringe Muslim organizations. He says that the Bangladeshi government was able to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the country due to some wonderful actions taken by it and by taking the general population in confidence against the terrorist elements.
Name of the Book: Bedevilled WorldBy Prof. Azharul Islam, ISBN: 8188869260Date of Publication: March 2008326 pages, tables, figuresPrice: Rs 845 (India), US$ 45 (Elsewhere)Published by : Global Media Publications
New Delhi,March 29: Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi-based publishing house Saturday released an important book on America’s war on terror titled, Bedevilled World. The book discusses as to how America has tried to defame Islam in the garb of terrorism and has used it as a pretext to target Muslim nations in Asia and Africa.
The author Prof. Azharul Islam, a former Vice Chancellor of the International Islamic University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh says that Islam has been accused for every evil, every incident of terrorism, every action of some splinter groups in remote corners of the world. Islam has been portrayed as a savage religion, bent upon destroying world.
He says that this unjust portrayal of Islam (a Divine Religion) is in sharp contrast to Christian groups responsible for atrocities or terrorist attacks throughout the century up to the present time. For these Christianity is hardly named or blamed in world media. Basque separatists, IRA, Ku Klux Klan, other terrorists groups or individuals including Oklahoma city bomber 27-year old Timothy James McVeigh (168 were killed on 19 April, 1995) in countries like Britain, Germany, Lebanaon, North or South America or elsewhere in the world are never called Christian terrorists and Christianity is never blamed for their actions. President Bush’s so-called multi-billion dollar ‘war on terror’ in the last few years has failed to contain terrorism.
The author suggests that the so-called ‘war on terror’ should have been fought alongside the ‘war on global injustice’. Something about redressing global injustice, Muslim plight, bigotry, attack on Islam should be addressed genuinely. One should clearly understand that ‘fault’ does not entirely rest on a group or a smaller country but on the most powerful nation and the colonial powers for their imperialistic behaviour. A manifesto that seeks to enforce ‘Western hegemony and cultural imperialism’ through an archaic policy of ‘divide and rule’ is probably hard to win friends, though it is sure to create more enemies.
The author says that the world has a good example in Bangladesh where the government has fought openly against terrorist activities of some fringe Muslim organizations. He says that the Bangladeshi government was able to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the country due to some wonderful actions taken by it and by taking the general population in confidence against the terrorist elements.
Name of the Book: Bedevilled WorldBy Prof. Azharul Islam, ISBN: 8188869260Date of Publication: March 2008326 pages, tables, figuresPrice: Rs 845 (India), US$ 45 (Elsewhere)Published by : Global Media Publications
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Global Media Publications J-51-A, 1st Floor, AFE,Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi-110025 IndiaTel: 91-11-55666830, 9818327757 E-mail: info@gmpublications.com
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