The reason is very obvious and I think everyone knows that. The
level of pressure on minority Muslim communities in European countries is very
high, the hatred and deprivations from basic human rights and the way they are
treated in these countries, are insane and inhuman. Some of the young
generations of these families feel very insecure and feel themselves in the
verge of dying. There are no opportunities for them to go and work and earn a
living or join a university to study. What do you think they should do? They
think they are marginalized and they are being attacked in every corner of
life. They feel sympathy with those civilians of the Islamic countries which
are in a political turmoil where hundreds of Muslim children, men and women are
being murdered brutality in war. On the other hand, they have no information
about the terrorist groups and their organizations, because they don’t believe
the news they hear from media due to the high level of media bias. And what the
media says and shows has a vise versa impact on some mentalities of the young
generation in Europe who don’t feel themselves as part of the European society
due to exposition to harsh discrimination, inequality and deprivation from
access to basic human rights such as education and work.
Neocolonialism and military intervention in Islamic states give chances
for the terrorist organizations to be able to attract and use the emotions of
the young generations in Europe. They mainly target those generations who have
never been to those countries and who have never seen the behavior and crimes
of those terrorist groups and their organizations in the field of war so that
they know how they commit murders and brutally commit massacres. They are using religion as a motivation to
attract new human resources (soldiers) while none of their actions are Islamic
or logically acceptable for a true Muslim.
Once they fall in the trap of those organizations, then they
can’t escape, even if they want to go back home and even if they manage to
escape and return back, then they are no longer welcomed and appreciated back
home in their host countries but rather being suspected and accused of many
uncommitted crimes.
Now what the European countries can do to prevent such kind
mistakes which take the lives of many Muslims and newly converted Muslims who
join these groups?
It is very easy but needs a good management. “Treat the minority
Muslim community in your respective countries the way that you want to be
treated” the same as what a great Afghan quote says. Respect their religion and
beliefs so that they can respect yours. They are mostly depressed, distressed
and deprived refugee families in your countries.
First make a draft “codes of conducts” for those social workers
who are in contact with them in your countries in which you write how the
Muslim communities should be treated to prevent human rights violations against
them when they are in the refugee camps, in the social houses or inside the
community or when they are at school.
Then think about what they need? When a newly arrived refugee in
your country is depressed and distressed refugee family, it is obvious that it
is not the hatred, racism or discrimination or stupid comments about their
beliefs, traditions or about their life style what they need. It is not
integration courses as a priority what they need. It is good for European
citizens to understand the real situation of a homeless refugee who has immigrated
many countries on foot for many years to reach to your country; it is good to
give him/her a peaceful life.
The language course is not the prior thing they need. The
interview for asylum application with 200 questions and chances of failure
which creates and intensifies their stress and tension and depression is not
what they need. The refugee camp with racist social workers is not what they
need. The racist doctors with an injection to end their lives are not what they
need. The long term unemployment with no income is not what they need. A life
with a negative answer to asylum application and sleeping in the park is not
what they need. The free money is not what they appreciate. What they need is a
welcome with a heart free from hatred, discrimination and a nice behavior based
on human rights and chances to study or work. You should ask them what they
want to do. Work? or study?
If they want to work, give them the opportunity to work with “on
the job training” and if they want to study, ask them in which language, you
can make a university with their own language by employing teachers from their
own countrymen who can speak that language and give lessons in that
language. All other things can come as a second step priority for them
and let them feel at home and let them identify violations of human rights with
an open eye without feeling bad about their complaints.
The European universities give scholarships to many foreign
students every year. But why don’t they give priority to those who are coming
to your doors by themselves that you are spending lots of money bringing others
here? The education strategies of the European countries should give priority
to those who are already inside your country and then for others who are outside
your borders.
Giving an opportunity for poor Muslim young generations to study
what they want, and that will help them get rid of religious narrow mindedness
and will also give them a feeling of gratefulness for the host country and that
will make them try to do something good for that country.
By giving them the opportunity to work, the host countries will
make them build their own self confidence and will allow them solve their
financial problems and that will protect them and it will turn them into good
tax payers for the host countries and it will also save them from harsh
destructive and distressing poverty, which can force them at any time to join
those terrorist groups.
If the host countries implement these instructions, I will
guarantee that there will be no chances for radicalization or joining terrorist
groups because the great Afghan proverb suggests that “Idleness is the evilness”.
How the terrorist groups can use religion to motivate or attract
and deceive the young generation and those who have less knowledge about Islam
and those who don’t know what that religion really teaches other people? There
is the Islamic preaching terminology which can be easily used as a
deceptive means to achieve political goals which happened in
Afghanistan when America funded some projects in Afghanistan to fight against
Russian soldiers and now the same discourse and techniques are being used by
the Taliban to fight against foreign troops in Afghanistan. For example the
word “Jihad” is an Arabic word which means to strive, to struggle, to try … but
this word has been used in the history of Islam when it first appeared as a
religion in the Arabic countries, other people saw this religion as something
new and attacked those who were Muslims and the Muslim leaders gave them the
permission to struggle and fight back if someone attacks their houses.
Literally in this historical context it means “a defensive struggle to protect
yourself from someone who attacked your house”. But now this word has a broader
meaning and it can be used with anything like Jihad for gaining knowledge which
means trying best to learn more knowledge. Terrorist groups are using this word
to motivate and attract people to go and fight against foreign troops in Afghanistan.
They say that foreign troops invaded an Islamic country and Muslim people need
to protect these countries from military attacks. This idea looks a very
acceptable reason for those who face many kinds of discrimination within
European countries and they are disgraced, distressed and hopeless of a
brighter future for themselves, and this will easily attract them while they do
not have that much knowledge and analytic power to analyze the situation and
differentiate between a real Jihad and that one of the terrorist groups for
political purposes. If you are a person from Afghanistan, Syria is not your
home. It is not invaded; it is not a real Jihad because two political parties
are fighting with each other for power. It is none of your business to
interfere. If you look at Afghanistan, Taliban are brutal terrorist groups who
were and still are killing the Afghan people and foreign troops went there to
help the people of Afghanistan to fight against them and get rid of them. If
you look at Iraq and what those terrorist groups are doing there, it is not
acceptable for any Muslim and their behaviors are not Islamic and no one should
take part in that kind of brutality and murder of civilian unarmed people in
those countries.
