Imran Tufail, a member of Berkshire Islamic Information Group and speaker on Islam, talks about the Arab Spring.
The Arab Spring sweeping North Africa and the Middle East witnessed the unfortunate loss of thousands of innocent people’s lives, moving over to South Asia and recently 97 people were killed in Quetta, Pakistan.
What are these disturbing sequence of events unfolding in the Muslim world and why so much bloodshed?
These are reoccurring questions being asked by the wider global community.
The catalyst for the Arab Spring was simply put in one word a quest for ‘justice’.
It must be noted countries like Egypt and Syria have a substantial number of Coptic Christians amongst their population who joined people of other faiths to seek justice, respect of human rights and have the same equal rights people enjoy in other parts of the world.
The rights of a human being are recognised by many groups, institutes and organisations all the way to the United Nations.
Unfortunately many people are still not able to enjoy this privilege which is still an issue on the global scale.
The tragic bombings which took place in Quetta cannot be unified with religion in any shape or form.
Any sane person can quickly analyse what took place in Quetta could not be for the cause of faith.
One thing is for sure, Muslims have been brought up in a universe of faith that renders the taking of innocent lives unimaginable.
Targeting civilians is a negation of every possible school in Islam teaching and foreign to the Quranic ethos.
In conclusion Islam is the last of the great Abrahamic religions and it should be remembered Islam contributed greatly to modern civilisation in Europe.