Islam means peace and surrender which are interdependent themes. Unless one surrenders to higher ruling authority God, peace can’t come. But even Muhammad fell short of it. He didn’t fully surrender to God and men, but took up arms to defend himself. Though Christ succeeded in that Islam by fully surrendering to God and men to establish peace, so called Christians all fall short like Muhammad. Only a few Christian unworldly martyrs succeed like Christ. All the institutional Christianity are involved in war and to excuse that antiChristian action they have compiled bible with warlike-scriptures and far worse hell-terror fake Revelation. They equate it idolatrously with Christ calling it ‘word of God’. These sins of Christians and Muslims are drawing them and the world to nuclear war suicide.
Now the so called ‘Arab spring’ started from a self-immolation of a Tunisian vendor. It is spreading rapidly to Islamic countries. The culture of murder has infected common down to earth people including children and women. The disgusting sight of them turning killers sporting lethal mass killer weapons, make me hopeless. As a believer of Christ and Indian non-violence heritage as Gandhi upheld, I know that killing another is killing self too. We are a corporate entity being of the same root. So Christ said weapon holder will be killed by it (if not directly, then by the associated hatred here and in eternity).
Our souls are created in spiritual love-heaven, from spiritual atoms being bound together by bond of spiritual love by Love-God. Nature of love is binding. So Love-God indwells in us. But we have fallen from that to this decaying world by accepting pride-selfishness devil within us, for instant false gain. We are driving out indwelling Him by culture of pride and its derivatives hatred, greed, anger etc. When that internal love-bond weakens we also weaken. When it is destroyed we fall apart loosing self-control like a garland without thread. Then becoming passion-mad we destroy self and others. We create hell here and go there in the spiritual world after death. Those who create hell here can’t go to love-heaven. Only love makes heaven, no blind passion. Let crafty people in all religions’ manmade scriptures say that by war, bloody sacrifice, flattery worship, bribing God etc. one can attain heaven. That false heaven is hell indeed. As are the means so must be the end.
Problem is that, being fallen here after rejecting Love-heaven by pride we are essentially enemy of love, though residual love still binds our soul parts together. When that is finally finished by incessant hacking by our anti love sins, we fall apart.
So not only the violence culturing Islamic countries are going to worse, the whole world is. This can be remedied only by love-nonviolence culture in both personal level and national level as Gandhi did.
So there must be no illusion that so called Arab spring will improve justice and peace. These are attainable only by the culture of Love not hate and violence. When one target is gone others are sure to be chosen as target. The recent conditions of those countries and the fallen communist countries must be eye opener for us. If we don’t believe in Love-God, the void will be filled by hate-god, pride-god or power-god to lead us to death. Let us change ourselves by love-practice repenting that we are killers of Love-God. Then we can deserve good leaders and good order here and in eternity. Otherwise our leaders will be replicas of pride-devil, following whom we have come to this world. If we suffer and die in this process like Christ, Gandhi or Martin Luther King our pains and death will be profitable for us and all.