Islam promotes and teaches peace, while terrorism suggests doing the exact opposite. Then why is the word terrorist always coupled with the word Islamic? A complete oxymoron.
Unfortunately, today people have been misled into thinking that Islam is a religion of terror and oppression. In this lecture Shaykh Khalid Yasin reveals, through historical accounts, who in essence are the genuine terrorists, and that Islam is innocent of such claims.
Why the Historical Approach
Because the argument cannot be won by assertion. Saying that Islam is peaceful convinces nobody who has been told otherwise for twenty years.
Setting out the actual record — what was done, by whom, on what scale, and what was called terrorism at the time — is a different kind of argument, and it is one a hostile listener finds much harder to dismiss.
About Shaykh Khalid Yasin
Shaykh Khalid Yasin, a former Christian, is the Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI), an organization dedicated to the work of da'wah. He studied Arabic in Madinah and in Cairo, and had many mentors and teachers who tutored him in Fiqh us-Sunnah, Fiqh us-Seerah and Islamic history, as well as in the memorization and recitation of the Quran.
He is what is known as a da'ee — someone who speaks publicly about the Islamic faith in order to invigorate the spiritual and moral conscience of his listeners, and to educate and inform people about Islam. He has spent most of his working life doing exactly that, and he is among the most widely heard English-speaking speakers in the field.
