This remains a paradox requiring explicit analysis and critical thinking. Surely Islam condemns the extermination of wrongdoers but believes in exterminating the wrong.
Evil deeds are like disease. They need treatment and every Doctor wants to cure the ailments as far as possible. But sometimes the ailment reaches a stage where no medicine can do any good. He then feels that surgical operation is necessary if the life of the patient is to be saved. He, therefore, decides not happily but conditionally to amputee one or more limbs of the patient. It of course causes pain but it’s not torture, it’s mercy.
Contextually, supposing humanity is a compact body, some of its parts become infected with a spiritual disease, and every medicine of sympathetic persuasion and rational pleading has failed.
There is a danger that their infection is causing and inflicting on other parts, and the spiritual doctor means the government and UPDF are now comfortable that the surgical operation is essential to save other parts of mankind from trouble.
Surely the hunt becomes both necessary and inevitable, but only shall be limited to that part which is most necessary to remove.
I particularly applaud the government and all security agencies in the course for national security because, as a believer, life is a creation of God (Allah), and it’s not supposed to be destroyed subversively like that.
Two, I presume it’s also naïve for those maintaining classical thinking correlating the Islamic religion and the ADF bandits. This can be clearly understood regarding the analogy given above. Thus a better understanding of the religion from its followers is required.
We may not deny the fact that some Muslims may be part of dubious activities, but what they are doing is not a commandment or a pillar anywhere in Islam, having seen how, when, and by whom a spiritual war (jihad) can become lawful.
It’s therefore, ironical to assume and brand every Muslim a wrongdoer and an enemy of the state since it’s not only a constitutional right but a strong religious doctrine, “the respect for life and preservation of humanity”.
Finally, I ask government operatives, in the same way the doctor carries out a surgical operation, to always focus and limit their anger to that essentially necessary group or category and avoid overgeneralization.
The author of this article is an educator and NRM Cadre
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