"My name is KHAN and I am not a terrorist"

“My name is Khan and I m not a terrorist” this is true. Nor every Muslim is a terrorist. I am not here to favor Muslims, I respect all the religions but over the past few years, there has been a growing tendency to dub Muslims as terrorists which makes it difficult for innocent Muslims to live proudly in a society.

People say that Muslims are spreading terror all over the world in the way of suicide bombing, which all of the non Muslims have named as "JIHAD" but they don't know the real meaning of "JIHAD". It means "holy war". Jihad is fighting for rights and religion. We are the follower of prophet HAZRAT MOHEMMED (S.A.W.) who was the most loving & honest person the world has ever had, so how can be their followers could be terrorists?  

Muslims are not the follower of terrorism. They are the true follower of Islam which is a religion of peace. It never teaches any Muslim the chapter of terrorism, it teaches the most peaceful way of living life. People call Islam, a religion of cruelty and violence but they don’t actually know what Islam is all about. Islam is also one of the most peaceful religions followed.  A real Muslim can never be a terrorist and he cannot go against this fact that Islam teaches us that the murder of an innocent person is the murder of humanity as a whole.

Not every Muslim is bad, not even every Muslim is connected to terrorism but people think this because they hear "bad" stories about them and automatically think that everyone who is a Muslim is bad.This is the only reason that Muslims face problems in a society. Many prefer people of other religions everywhere than Muslims.

After 9/11, many boys of my class started calling me a terrorist just because I am a “Khan”, a true Muslim, a true follower of Islam. They used to say that Muslims are terrorists and so even you. And one day I questioned them- Who are Chandra Shekhar Azaad and APJ Abdul Kalam who did a lot for our country? Who are Zeenat Amaan, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar,  Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan whose movies you and your family enjoy to watch? Are they connected to Terrorism?

Terrorism comprises of Muslims but is it right to call every Muslim a terrorist? If a person follows terrorism then this doesn’t mean that his brother also follows terrorism.  Muslims are not criminals. Nowadays, who is not a criminal? There are so many crimes happening every hour every day. Are all these done by Muslims?

Although we follow one religion but we should respect all religions. It’s not about favoring Islamic religion or any other but it’s about changing the perceptions that Islam is not about violence, it is not about terrorism.