It is argued that Islamic extremism has economic causes. Of greatest concern, however, is that a triumphant fundamentalism has, without fail, seen justice to be synonymous with oppressive practices.

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It is argued that Islamic extremism has economic causes. Of greatest concern, however, is that a triumphant fundamentalism has, without fail, seen justice to be synonymous with oppressive practices. Muslims everywhere cast their everyday lives around the simple faith of a merciful and beneficent God by declaring: "In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful". In the Islamic worldview, justice denotes placing things in their rightful place. It also means giving others equal treatment. In Islam, justice is also a moral virtue and an attribute of human personality, as it is in the Western tradition. In Islam the Quran is the source book of law and hence that of substantial justice. It is Divine in origin and so infallible and eternal. It cannot be the cause for any injustice. Even a cursory reading of the Quran leaves one with a sense that there are two elements of justice here: one dealing in broad principles and mainly to do with the notion of justice before God, implying compliance of conventions and rules and of moral decisions.

Here gender equality and kindness is forceful, with rewards and retribution being solely dependent on observance of duty. Justice is close to equality in the sense that it creates a state of equilibrium in the distribution of rights and duties, but they are not identical. Sometimes, justice is achieved through inequality, like in unequal distribution of wealth. The Prophet of Islam declared: "There are seven categories of people whom God will shelter under His shade on the Day when there will be no shade except His. [One is] the just leader."(Sahih Muslim).

The Quran, the sacred scripture of Islam, considers justice to be a supreme virtue. It is a basic objective of Islam to the degree that it stands next in order of priority...