Aschol: English Courner:
During the last few years, as result of many events
whose consequences have become intertwined, foremost among them the
Arab-Israeli conflict and the terrorist
attack of September 11. The mass media in the west have sometimes portrayed Islam
as violent religion opposed to other religion and strongly anti-western.
Actually the vast majority of Muslims have nothing to do with terrorism or
violence of any kind, and have often been the object of attacks themselves in
many part of the world. They live the life of traditional believers based on
surrender to God, prayer, fasting, alms-giving, and seeking to gain inner
peace. Faith in the one God is still very strong in Islam, and the Islamic
intellectual and artistic tradition as well as the inner path to God associated
usually with Sufism, are all alive.
Most Muslims believe that they have much more in
common with Jews and Christians than with any other religious group and that
what unites the followers of various religious tradition in much greater than
what divides them. Also most Muslims are not anti-western, but oppose Western
interests in the Islamic world if these interests happened to be against those
of Muslims themselves. They wish to live and develop their own societies on the
basis of their own world view, interests, and ideals without external pressure,
in the same way that the West was to do during the various stages of its
historical development.
Most of Muslims hates to the west interest but still cannot
hide or there away from the new era, something that must be attention is how to
make strong the faith of the Muslims by true education and improving the faith.
One side the Muslims have to fight the enemies and attack from external but the
most important is keep the harmony among Muslims to do not fight each other and
stand up together to built education of Islam for new generation .
Key word:
Portray : Melukiskan
Oppose : Menentang
Intertwined : Terjalin
Foremost : Terutama
Violent : Garang, Bengis
Anti-western : Anti Barat
Vast : Sangat Banyak
External pressure : Tekanan dari Luar
Alms-giving : Zakat
Oleh : Mr-Fahar
