Engineer, Asghar Ali2019-09-252019-09-252012-11-252012-11http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/188352Media loves to project Islam as most violent religion, and certainly more violent than any other religion in the world and certainly so compared to Christianity, if not any other religion as far as western media is concerned. Journalism, even scholarship is not always pure journalism or scholarship with truth as a value. It is often motivated or imitated blindly or results of ignorance. Before we proceed further we must answer one question which is very fundamental. Is absolute non-violence possible? Yes, as far as vision and philosophy is concerned. However, in practice the most non-violent religion has failed in this respect to bring about absolute non-violent society into existence. As the word ‘non-violence’ itself indicates violence is more fundamental and we negate it by adding ‘non’ to it. The word peace is more positive in this respect. But the concept of peace is much more complex than that of violence. Of peace is accompanied by violence or violence is sued to bring about peace. Islam, being more practical than theoretical, prefers to use the word ‘salam’ (peace) than non-violence.engWith permission of the license/copyright holderIslam, violence, media, non-violenceReligious ethicsPreprint