Islam’s political and religious ideology On Sept 11, 2001 the United States suffered the worst attack on it’s shores since Pearl Harbor. Pictures of the jets flying into the buildings, burning bodies falling, others jumping to their deaths, and the buildings collapsing left an indelible and unforgettable horror in the minds of millions of Americans. The news showed people in the Middle East celebrating the deaths of over 3000 people. To some, these people who killed so many innocent people were murderers. To other they were heroes. There is a growing philosophical rift between the east and the West and it is becoming dangerous because millions of lives are at stake. The Islamic ideology in combination with Arab dictatorships in the Middle East are hard at work to destabilize the West through terrorism. The Middle East itself is continually plunged in to war, chaos, poverty, and destruction because of these religious and political beliefs. This heinous act on 9/11 was also responsible for killing Muslims. Is the killing of innocent people including other Muslims part of the teachings of the Koran? I believe it is and this is the beginning of uncovering a global ideology that will continue to bring suffering to the whole world. Recognizing evil religions and ideologies If a nation such as America has prosperity and might does it make that nation unjust? Must such a nation be brought down and destroyed for the less fortunate to feel better about themselves? “Is it not in the power of those who belong to a nation, religion, or ideology to make a great nation of themselves?” There is something about the religious and political ideology in the Middle East that fails to unify Arab and Muslim people around building a stable nation. They do not understand how to create a government whose intent is the welfare and security of their own people. There are many good examples of Middle Eastern governments that have failed to meet the needs of their own people such as Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen just to name a few. Many Arab nations are in the midst of terrible economic woes, internal struggles, division, hatred and violence against their own people. The purpose of many of these nations is to build a powerful military to wage war on it’s chosen enemies and acquire nuclear technology. The blind hatred of many Arab nations to eliminate Israel and overthrow western nations is part of what is destroying the freedom and prosperity of it’s own people. People are caught in unjust power structures that suppresses the rights of their own people to prosper and be free. Arab countries exalt a few elite to hold power over the people gaining wealth and power while the rest live nominal lives. Even the so-called peaceful Arab nations have schools that teach generations of children to hate the West and Israel. The religion of Islam seems to be at the very heart of this unrest, breeding discontent, poverty, and violence. It is a religion that never builds but destroys. Islam dictates the fate of millions of people in the Middle East by forcing them to believe as they do through fear, intimidation, and violence. Freedom and human rights are being subjugated to a barbaric ideology centered deeply in the writings of the Koran. The Koran itself seems to radicalize it’s adherents. The intent of Islamic ideology is to destroy the West instead of unifying themselves as a people to create a just society with a good standard of living for their people. We may try to deny or white wash it by declaring politically correct statements that good and bad people are in all religions. The truth is, the Koran teaches conquest through violent means. The flourishing dictatorships are the fruit of Islamic ideology. These nation have an Islamic and political ideology that promotes violence, and takes away basic human rights. They also exploit one another through the self interest of the sect of Islam that is in power. Islamic beliefs at the core of Arab nations have created governments that are morally bankrupt. I believe the outrage and violence these ideologies foster is because they have failed to meet the needs and expectations of their own people.They have created a frustration that is being directed and taken out on America and other western nations because of their success and achievements. By depicting the West as evil it gives Islamic fanaticism a reason to exist and gather an army around a false cause. Islam is a large religious group that is teaching generations of children to hate others different from themselves. I believe in religious freedom but people worldwide are being killed and coerced to serve a religious ideal based on violence and hatred. As communism brings about injustice, poverty, class warfare, and suffering so does a belief in the Koran. Wherever this religious quasi-political religious ideology exists people’s human rights are diminished, and prejudice, poverty, crime, and violence abound.