Islamic militant or deviationist?

Categories: Wormie Says

I find it interesting that current terrorist which claimed to be associated with the Islamic faith are variously called Islamic militant, fundamental Muslim, Islamic cells etc. It is indeed unfortunate that the terrorist claims to be of the Islamic faith. But does Islam condone terrorist act? Does Islam urge its members to kill innocent people? Although I am not Muslim, with only limited knowledge of Islam, I am sure I am not alone to say that this is not true. Muslim leaders had been quick to condemn any terror attack - be it in the United States or in Indonesia. This shows that killing is not wrong even in the eyes of Muslims. Since terrorism is not condoned in Islam why should the terrorist be called Islamic militant? Clearly the terrorist had be mislead by a self-professing leader - that is deviated from the true Islamic teachings. Therefore a better term to called such terrorist should be Islamic deviationist terrorist rather than Islamic terrorist because clearly they had deviated from the true teachings.

On the same note, it is interesting that Irish Republican Army is not called Catholic militant and the Israel resistance during their fight for independance was not called Zionist militant although such groups also carried out terrorist act of bombing civilian facilities and killing innocent civilians.