“It’s got nothing to do with Australian Muslims”, he told SBS World News.
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“These are the basic fundamental teachings of Islam and this lovely religion is distorted by a few people and they are trying to snatch this handsome and peaceful religion from us”, he said.
But Pirzada said he isn’t afraid of seeing anti-Muslim sentiment in St. John’s in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Meanwhile the first gunmen behind the Paris attack had been identified by the French investigating agencies as Omer Ismail Mostefai, who attacked at the Bataclan nightclub on Friday night where more than 100 concertgoers died. They don’t represent me.
The attacks had more than 130 people die and left nearly 400 injured and 100 in a critical condition. If we denounce the ideology itself, we educate others about the dangers of hateful ideas while not discriminating against people who were only born into the faith and don’t know better. You don’t feel safe any more in Paris.
“However, we are living in a world full of injustice and wars”.
“This is not what Muslims believe, this is not what Muslims practice”. They also want to make clear- they are not terrorists and have nothing to do with ISIS.
One such video, which was posted on YouTube a year ago, started doing the rounds of the web tunnels again. USCMO stands consistent with its position against all forms of violence against innocent people anywhere in Turkey, Beirut, Syria, Paris, and on our soil irrespective of the perpetrators, targets, or reasons.
Yesterday, as Metro reports, the hashtags #terrorismhasnoreligion and ##NotInMyName started trending on Twitter as people tried to counter any backlash against ordinary people.
People from all around the world, of all religions, have taken to social media to show solidarity with the French.
Following the attacks, speculation was rife about the identity and faith of the attacks, and the blame shifted to Muslims in a sequence that is all too familiar, with a few even blaming refugees.
Edina Lekovic said her 4-year-old son was puzzled to see his mother turn serious as she made dozens of calls about the violence in Paris.
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“This attack is being claimed by the group calling themselves “Islamic State”.
