Islam Rediscovered
11. Non-Violence and Islam
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Now is the time for this ideology to be presented to
man, who is ready and waiting to accept it. After
the fall of communism (1991), the world is faced
with an ideological vacuum. This vacuum can be
filled by Islam alone. In the present world the
developed countries have become economic or
military superpowers, but the place is vacant for an
ideological superpower, and that, potentially
belongs to Islam.
There is only one obstacle in converting a great
potential into a reality in favour of Islam. And that
is the repeated recourse to violence by Muslim
movements in modern times. Such action has
presented Islam before the world in the guise of a
violent religion. For this reason the man of today
shies away from Islam. He fails to study Islam
objectively. If this barrier could be removed and
Islam once again brought before the world as a non-
violent religion, or as a peaceful social system, then
once again humanity would accept it, recognising it
to be the voice of its own nature.
Modern man is in need of a new religion or a new
system, based on peace. It should be free from
