How Islam Deals with Offensive Terrorism:

Islam treats offensive terrorism by three means:
1. Provision of good discipline from childhood and instilling the principles that prohibit aggression and oppression, and encourage justice and fairness.
2. Removal of the causes of offensive terrorism by protecting human rights, providing fair trial, securing just treatment, encouraging cooperation in the ways of goodness, and securing decent means of living.
Therefore, no wonder if the second Guided Caliph Omar put at halt the punishment of cutting the hand of the thief during the year of famine.
It is wiser for us to find out the reason behind terrorism and to remove it than rushing to condemn it and punish people for it. Sometimes, we blame the Palestinians’ desperate random defensive violence causing some innocent victims, but we forget or ignore to condemn the oppressive violence that cause thousands of innocent victims face humiliation, hunger and death after long suffering for over fifty years.
Some countries may blame some defensive terrorism against them, but ignore to remove the cause, which is in their hands. Instead, they agitate terrorism more by committing more atrocities against the oppressed or continue supporting the oppressor.
It is note worthy that some decision makers of some countries base their decisions on misleading information, provided by some prejudiced or ignorant information sources. In the light of this fact, the decision makers should be more careful try to verify the information from several first hand sources as much as possible. This is not to exclude the fact that some of the decision makers may forge some information to realize personal goals. And here comes the role of the wise opinion leaders of the nation and the dedicated honest media men and women.
3. Islam assigns suitable punishment for offensive terrorism, but after proofing guilt beyond doubt, which authorizes the judge to reject some suspicious confessions. This is so, because punishing innocent people out of negligence and insufficient investigation or revenge-like punishment, will only agitate more offensive, random terrorism.