Quran supports Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
- From: "Faris Jawad" <x_faris_jawad@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Aug 2005 15:56:07 -0700
We have read a number of articles written recently by a good number of
secular and religiously biased writers, some among whom supported the
dropping of the atomic bombs on two of the Japanese cities by America
during World War11; while others severely criticized America for, in
their words, committing a heinous crime against a large number of
innocent Japanese. Responding to one such article I posted a write up
on News from Bangladesh titled Hiroshima Bombing: Was it Justified?":
Conspiracy Theory! A Response, through which I pointed out how a highly
erudite gentleman tried to put all the blames on America for the death
of a large number of Japanese civilians before the end of World War11.
While accusing America of murdering the Japanese civilians, many
educated Islamists claim that Islam does not support the killing of
innocent people and that the killing of one innocent man would mean as
if the killer killed a whole people. They also maintain that saving an
innocent life by a man means that he saved a whole people.
Islamists rely on the following verse of the Quran while making their
above claims:
On that account We have ordained for the Children of Israel that if
anyone slew a person "unless it be for murder or for spreading
mischief in the land it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if
anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole
people." (5:35).
If we care to read the above verse a little bit carefully, we will
notice that the Quran supports the killing of the murderers and of
those who create tumult and spread mischief on earth. This permission
to kill the murderers is reinforced by the following verses of the
Quran:
And slay them wherever ye catch them. And turn them from where they
have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than
slaughter: but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first)
fight you there: but it they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward
of those who suppress faith (2:191).
And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and
there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there
be no hostility except to those who practice oppression (2:193).
As we can see, the Quran approves slaying of those people, who cause
tumult and oppression on earth. It calls upon the men to turn out of
their homes, those people who turned them out of their homes. It also
authorizes bloodshed within the precincts of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca
of those who first engaged the Muslims in fights.
The Quran exhorts Muslims to continue with their fights until they are
able to restore peace, and there prevails justice and faith in Allah
(i.e. until such time they are able to convert earth's entire
population to Islam).
Now let us consider the grounds, based on which, I say that the Quran
supports the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States .
Most Japanese of 1945 followed either Buddhism or Shinto-ism. In the
strict sense of the word religion, Buddhism and Shinto-ism are not
religions, but a way of life, developed by the Japanese under the
influence of the great Chinese philosopher Confucius.
Born in 551 B.C., Confucius was the first man to develop a system of
beliefs synthesizing the basic ideas of the Chinese people. His
philosophy, based on personal morality and on the concept of a
government that served its people and ruled by moral example, permeated
Chinese life and culture for well over two thousand years (Michael Hart
in The 100; p. 27).
Despite the fact that both Buddhism and Shinto-ism were not founded on
the basis of Creationism, as a result of which, both of them are devoid
of gods, most Japanese, however, found their false god in the person of
their Emperors. Succeeding his father Emperor Taisho in 1926, Emperor
Hirohito, though constitutionally not permitted to act without the
advice of his ministers and the chief of staff, is believed to have
approved Japan 's attack on Pearl Harbor of America. The Japanese
cheered his decision even though they had never heard him speak until
the 15th of August, 1945, when he announced his country's
unconditional surrender at the end of the World War11.
Japan launched its war against China in 1931. It invaded Manchuria in
1937. Following the footsteps of Germany 's Adolf Hitler, Japan
invaded Hong Kong, the Philippines , Singapore and Burma . Other
countries would have also become Japan 's victim, if America had not
been forced to get involved in the World War11.
According to the Quran, Japan 's invasion of the above countries was
an act of tumult and aggression against the innocent people of those
countries. The Japanese people and their army had acted against the
entire humanity by killing innumerable people of the countries they
invaded. They, therefore, deserved death and destruction.
Allah inspired the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take up
sword, on His behalf, against the Japanese oppressors. Since sword
would not have been at all effective against the modern equipment the
Japanese owned and were using against their victims, President
Roosevelt used his own modern equipment i.e. the Atomic Bomb to contain
and punish the godless, tumultuous, oppressive and murderous Japanese.
In short, President Roosevelt had carried out Allah's wish by
dropping the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to punish the
oppressors, who displaced their victims from their homes. Muslims,
therefore, should not only be grateful to him for what he had done to
save a bulk of mankind from annihilation by the Japanese, they should
also respect him as a Representative of Allah for all the good deeds he
had performed on His behalf.
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