True Justice and Peace — Page 2
2 arisen much more intensely in the Islamic world or that it is being caused by Muslims. And therefore the con- clusion is drawn that religion in general, and Islam in particular (God forbid), is the root of this discord. Up until now, the Western world believed that all of this turmoil would remain limited to the Islamic or under- developed nations and that it is exclusively a problem confined to them; and that they (that is, the developed nations) would continue to help them (the underdevel- oped nations) in the name of resolving these problems and trying to establish justice. It is a matter aside that on the pretext of helping and establishing justice, one of their goals was to secure their superiority and to take advantage of the resources of these (underdeveloped) countries. Indeed, certain major powers and anti-religious forces were seriously mistaken. Time has now shown that this is not a prob- lem confined to the Muslim world alone. The tendency towards extremism and terrorism is not limited to the Islamic World; rather, it has in fact spilled over to the West and the developed parts of the world and is about to become a source of great fear and the cause of horrif- ic consequences for them as well. For the past few years, I have been directing their at- tention towards the fact that the world is in a state of