Hi you are welcome David, I am the Admin here, and i will do my best to help you. Infact, im glad you came here as inshaAllah we will help you according to the original teachings of Islam.
I hope i can write a good reply, even though i am kinda tired, inshaAllah will write something better later on and will answer any questions you may have. I will try to explain as concise as possible motive as to why a person could be driven to do such terrible things.
Firstly, I would like to express my sorrow for your loss. It is extremely sad for any loss of linnocent life. It was an indiscrimate attack and could have been anyone. Many of my family and friends work in Central London. It makes me very angry to see what is happening in our country and outside. Those who did the London bombings were criminals and murderers without a doubt. And Islamically they would be counted as having murdered people.
Like any crime, there is often a motive. To stop the crime it is important to understand the root cause and hopefully get rid of any underlying problems. This is not condoning or justifying the criminal, but ensuring these things do not happen again. We must realise that there is a lot of injustice happening and that this can make people think in irrational ways and drive some people to do wrong and desperate things.
We need to judge the actions of the people according to Islam, and not judge Islam according to the actions of some people. I believe any fair minded person would agree to this point.
Islam as followed by the Quran and the Hadith (which are sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad) does not condone killing of innocent people.
The Following is a hadith:
It is narrated by Ibn 'Umar that a woman was found killed in one of these battles; so the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) forbade the killing of women and children.
Please read the following link where there are various quotations from the Quran and Hadith where
Allah and his Messenger forbid it.
Of course, not everyone follows Islam properly and some have various misconstrued ideas as to what Islam is. Sometimes people either have incorrect guidance or they do not follow various issues with correct understanding. The latter comes from actually studying the sources of Islam with a scholar... or at the very least not making any judgements without refering back to a good Islamic scholar.
It would be foolish for someone to ignore the presence of extremism. It exists in all cultures, races, countries and religions. I believe the terrorism we see from some people who call themselves Muslim is due directly to the foreign policy of the Western countries. The latter have had a very long and bloody history occupying various Muslim countries. And, i feel that 7/7 came about because of the Iraq war and the UK participation in that.
The Muslim world has had many 7/7 and 9/11 of its own for centuries. From the crusades, which George Bush said he had begun again... through to the various 19th and 20th Century colonisation and bigotry done by various Western powers in the Middle East, Africa and Asian subcontinent. So, even those these things do not feature much in our Western media, it is extremely fresh in the memory of the Muslims who endured the pain.
Today, the Muslim world is extremely weak. Firstly because their is little understanding of Islam. Secondly, we are weak militarily. There are no Muslim states willing to adequately defend the people who are abused or hurt. So, states such as Israel are allowed to continually bomb and kill women and children at will (using US/UK supplied weaponary).
This opens the ground for certain extremist groups to begin operating and brainwashing young, emotional and basically ignorant youth. Ignorant to Islam that is.
As this site is a public forum you may get some people talking about various conspiracy theories. But, what they fail to realise is that there do exist people who would do such things. They are called "takfiris". They do not look at who they kill, it matters not if a person is a Muslim or a non Muslim, they just do it. This is due to their ignorance of ISlam and them being brainwashed into doing these things and having
a lot of emotion. They see what happens in Iraq and other places and their mind gets blinded by hate. This opens them up to be susceptible to extremist ideas.
They think it is justified to kill British and American civillians because civillian people in Iraq and Palestine are dying. Their emotions get in the way of thinking about Islamic issues properly.
Their logic is incompatible with ISlam. As the Prophet
forbade peopel to take revenge against civillian people. Islam has many rulings concerning how we do warfare, and terrorism has no part in it. Nor is there any precedence for such actions. Another point is that its not upon an individual to make up his mind to take up arms without consulting with the leader of the Muslims.
There are many who do take a lot of benefit from terrorism including the Bush regime in US and Blair. It strengthens their position to do with their foreign policy in the Middle East, and helps them invade and stay there to ensure they get their lucrative oil and weapon deals
.
We are meant to live in democracies, but our leaders have interests in petroleum, armaments and military equipment, and they decide to go to war... they lie to us and fabricate evidence... and end up killing a quarter of a million people in Iraq. There is also a big Christian Fundamentalist religious movement behind the scenes which also guides the Middle East policy.
So, if one is to attach blame, it can not go to Islam or to the Muslim people. Like i said before, we do not judge Islam, but judge the actions of a people according to Islam.
But, the blame can definately go to the people who carried out the attacks and those who kill on a much larger scale, i.e the politicians who decide to invade and kill people in Iraq. State Terrorism is a much greater reality than any other forms of terrorism. And if there was to be true justice in the world, than people like Blair, Bush and Israeli leaders would be tried for War Crimes.
For the war in Iraq, the biased pro-Israeli stance the UK and US take with Israel, by supplying it with weapons, makes the world a very dangerous place.
The vast majority of Muslims know that the people in UK and US or anywhere else have absolutely nothing to do with the deaths of those in Muslim countries. And we are opposed to any form of revenge attacks such as 911 or 7/7
Unfortunately, the media has kept on putting disinformation about Islam and Muslims as well as feeding hatred.. Other groups have stepped up their campaigns such as the BNP and other groups.