Islam’s duty to defend the oppressed motivated Naeem’s career and final act
Evidence
Islam, for Naeem, was essentially a faith of action. It drew his deep devotion because of its emphasis on defending the oppressed, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, which took root deep within him as a child growing up in Abbotabad, Pakistan. In Pakistan, he witnessed oppression at home and in nearby Kashmir. That landscape of struggle fueled his ambition, and he ultimately climbed the ranks at Citibank and became a senior manager at its Lahore office. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 987
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Direct counter to the ‘Islam is savage/violent’ framing of the War on Terror canon discussed in earlier chapters — here Islam is the source of self-sacrifice.
Related
- Naeem Rashid’s Islam emphasized defending the oppressed across faiths (similarity 0.89)
- During the October war of 1973, Abd al-Halim Mahmud, the rector of Al-Azhar University in Egypt, expressed his opinion that jihad even goes beyond Islam and that it is an obligation for everyone… (similarity 0.81)
- Revenge, not facts, redirected the War on Terror toward all of Islam (similarity 0.79)
- Economic limits drove a Pakistani banking manager to emigrate to New Zealand in 2010. (similarity 0.79)