Nowadays, terrorism is a great issue
which attracts the world’s concern. Many terrors happened, many people were
killed. These terrors not only happened in Middle East, but also in other
continents like America, Europe, and Africa.
Some
of the terrorists are young-aged. They are the best targets for recruitment,
especially if they only have a little knowledge about their own religion or
mental illness. We can see some young terrorist cases. For example, a 22 years
old American guy is sentenced for 12 years and three Somali-American guys (one
of them is 21 years old and the rest are 22 years old) were found guilty and they
are about to get a life sentence as all of them tried to travel to Syria to
join ISIS according to New York Times.
Terrorism
has a great impact for stability of country, especially if the youth in that
country become terrorist. This is a miserable thing, since the youth represents
future generation. A country really needs the youth to keep its existence. If a
country has good young people, it will be a good country as well, but if the
young people are bad, the country will be bad too.
In
order to fight against terrorism, the young generation should strengthen their
faith. However, a faith without knowledge is a blind faith, which is commonly
found in terrorism. For example, the terrorists are distorting the meaning of “jihad”,
as they have little understanding of jihad, which is taught in Islam. Jihad refers
to the religious duty of Muslims to maintain the religion, not to kill people
which have other beliefs.
Because
of this, many non-Muslim people always link Islam with terrorism, even Muslims linked
other Muslims that grow a beard, use trousers without close the ankle, since
most terrorists have that kind of appearance. However, terrorists are not just
Muslim people, but there are another non-Muslims terrorist too. It is because
the media focuses on the Muslim terrorist.
Knowledge
without faith is also lame. Some of the terrorists were smart when they were in
university, but they joined a terrorist group because they got convinced by
some doctrines in a wrong way, which they don’t know well. They are used to
make bombs and stuffs using their ability.
These
people see everything in the perspective of existence, not the spiritual
perspective, which makes them forget why they were created and who they are. This
way, they got knowledge about materials quantitatively, but with a lack of
quality.
Based
on that, there is an interrelationship between faith and knowledge. Faith needs
knowledge and knowledge needs faith, even though faith and knowledge have clear
borders. Faith and knowledge are two important things for young generation to
live their life well, as an individual, citizen, and God’s creature. Faith has
the role of guiding humans to get their purpose in life, but faith is learned
through knowledge, which can be a way to be used to get it. Knowledge only be
obtained by people that are inspired by truth and understanding. Those people are
faithful.
Therefore,
if the young generation already integrated faith and knowledge in their life,
they could use them as a tool to attack terrorism. Firstly, they could make a campaign
about the danger of terrorism in social media. Secondly, using the community to
spread positive impacts without being racist, as most of the source of
terrorism is a racist thing. Thirdly, avoiding to be a generation of loners, in
order to prevent the recruitment of terrorism, which prefers the unstable young
people. Lastly, being fully committed to have the roles and responsibilities of
maintaining the unity and honor of the nation, for that the young generation is
called as the agent of change and social control.
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