He has identified the three major challenges for world leaders such as how to ensure functional quality of democracy, access to justice to common people and a corruption-free administration. These are the major crisis destabilizing many countries to fight within the community facing injustice and discrimination.
His observations based on his long experience as a successful British Prime Minister from 2010 to 2016 bears significance. Britain witnessed historic changes during this period.
He resigned after the referendum he held in June last year when British people decided to leave European Union by a majority of 52 percent votes against 48 percent to remain. As he was in favour of remaining with the Union he resigned accepting the verdict of the British people, which was no doubt an historic decision to let the will of the people to reign supreme.
Speaking before the audience in Dhaka he was forthright in saying that Islam is not to be blamed for terrorism. His analysis is that Islamic extremists are fighting an ideological war within Islam. He denied there is a clash of civilisations. In his view Islam is facing a clash of ideologies within itself. He said the World leaders must fight terrorism together which is found now almost everywhere.
We agree with Mr David Cameron that surely it is not a clash of civilizations. But we can’t agree at the same time as he said terrorism is a clash of ideologies within Islam. In fact the fight that we see in Iraq or Syria or elsewhere is not an ideological fight within Islam but a fight of anger and frustration resulted from various wars in the Middle East and Afganishtan when serious brutalities were committed against Muslim men, women and children. We want this point should be seriously weighed by David Cameron and Western leaders if they realty mean to defeat Muslim terrorism. They must understand the real cause.
ISIS in running their terrorist attacks are using easy access to oil money but the powerful state parties are equally cruel and using all brutalities against rivals and even killing innocent people using chemical weapons. ISIS and others extremists have ideology of killing innocent Muslims, Christans and this indiscriminate killing is not based on Islamic ideology.
Muslims in general don’t accept them as Muslims; they are radicalized and dangerous people targeting anybody and every body. It has no connection with protection of faith or Islamic ideology whatsoever.
We agree with Mr Cameron that terrorism must be decisively fought everywhere but what is important is that such fight in no way should undermine democracy and rule of law. It can’t diminish access to justice in a society, which must protect human rights and people’s liberty.
David Cameron did not answer part of the question directly that fights against terrorism is also being exploited in some countries to building autocracy by defeating democracy. He gave his answer with all emphasis for protecting democracy.
Our aims must be clear and simple: Terrorism must be defeated but not democracy. Autocracy is also terrorism. Instead of private terrorism we do not want to see the success of state terrorism.
