Not everything we hear nowadays is completely believable. While Muslim extremists have posed a threat to our world - a threat that has become inevitable to unite against - the whole phenomenon has peculiarly brought forth two reactions simultaneously. One is to combat terrorism with over-the-top force and the second to condemn the whole Muslim community for the sin that they have not collectively committed. All these approaches are highly reprehensible, but quite helpful for one another.

The leading Republican contender in the US presidential race Donald Trump is of the view that monitoring mosques and barring the entry of the Muslims in US would be helpful in countering terrorism in his country. He also jumped right into the mind of Britain and told the world that UK has a problem caused by an indefinite number of radical Muslims. The fact of course is completely contrived and dissuades people from being united for a noble cause of eradicating terrorism from the very face of this world. However, Trump’s childish views incited outrage around the world.

Logically, terrorism is a phenomenon not a person that can be shot down and detained in the jail. The outset of terrorism is untraceable. It did not start with the Islam and it will not end with the persecution of the Muslim community.

What is needed to be absorbed is that in a world which has become such a diverse place, with all people having a share in its development, everyone would have to digest its inevitable multicultural dimensions.

It is the miracle of modern capitalism which has enabled a person like Trump to join the US presidential race. Most of us had thought that nothing could have been worse than former US president George W Bush. But, as Napoleon Bonaparte had said that in politics ‘stupidity’ is not a handicap. 

My worst nightmare here is that one day people like Trump might also enter the corridors of power. Just imagine people like Adolf Hitler, Mullah Omer or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ruling the West or the Middle East.

But one can safely say that if an African immigrant’s son can become the president of the strongest country in the world and a woman can become the second most influential human being in the world, we are sure that we are not living in a Nazi, Mussolini or Stalin era any longer. One would have to believe that Bush’s legacy is no more either. This reminds us the fact that one bigot cannot put the world upside down.

We cannot see the world with the same eye. Trump’s statements regarding Muslims have no grounds, neither moral nor political. It is a depiction of what any other terrorist organization is preaching against humanity.

Trump is providing help to ISIS, al-Qaeda and all the other radical Muslim or non-Muslim organizations to sow the seed of hatred, not only in the mind of people living in Arab world, but also in the Muslim communities in the West. Even though Muslims are in minority, they have been serving and contributing in the progress of these countries for generations. Now someone is introducing the idea of dishonoring their set of beliefs by lambasting the Muslims community as a whole. Undoubtedly, Donald Trump’s views have provoked fury among the Muslims and non-Muslims all over the world.

This is a highly irresponsible attitude that contributes to the appalling ideology of the extremists who want to diminish respect for humanity. For them, taking a human life in Paris is terror and in Syria a commodity to purchase the loyalties of the deprived and divested Muslims.

But I am sure such people and their thoughts cannot prevail so long as the world is full of kind-hearted people who love human beings irrespective of their diverse tendencies. Astonishingly, the petition for barring the US presidential candidate from entering UK for his anti-Muslim bigotry got nearly 360,000 signatures in 24 hours. It shows the positive attitude that counters such radicalization that threatens the existence of human society, where love and harmony should prevail.

The world needs to iron out the disputes and find a logical way out of this radicalization. One must able to muster the courage and stand against hypocrisy. Such people who are trying to drag the world into a war-like situation by pointing fingers at each other are profiteers. Terrorism is not associated with religion, race, culture and thoughts, but with the power seeking attitude. It simply evokes the ideas of cruelty, prejudice, and never ending humanitarian suffering. We all hope the modern world would not be a breeding ground of such horror.