Several dozen people were killed in a series of unprecedented attacks around Paris on Friday, French President Francois Hollande said, announcing that he was closing the country’s borders and declaring a state of emergency.
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In a statement, the Galway Ahmadiyya Muslim community said: “We send our deepest, condolences to the people and government of France”. But the fact is that the terrorists are trying to hijack our religion, they have no connection to Islam.
The clip has been re-shared across the internet following a wave of Islamophobic comments blaming Muslims for the terror attacks in Paris which killed 129 people. On November 13, I was heartbroken to learn of the attacks in Paris.
The Islamic Center for Japan, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization for Muslims, said that insufficient coverage of conflicts in the Middle East by Japanese media may have caused confusion among people in Japan. “The mosque is regularly attended by families with young children”, the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) said in a news release following the incident.
Denizens of FB who shared Mr Daud’s post have generally affirmed his message, agreeing that the Muslim community should police extremists committing crimes in the name of Islam.
He said Australian Muslims were as shocked and shaken as the rest of the Australian community at the senseless killing of innocence. He also noted that the USA spends $47 billion a year on homeland security, compared with tens of millions per year in European countries, according to the AP.
“The Islamic state for Iraq and Syria, it grew out of the after effects of the problem of in Iraq, in terms of after the USA forces pretty much downsized there”, said Dr. Fred Gordon with Columbus State University. And a lot of it will have to be with Muslim community with the world community getting together. And she says that Governor Greg Abbott’s objection to Texas accepting Syrian refugees creates even more animosity. They also want to make clear- they are not terrorists and have nothing to do with ISIS. “We have to address their environmental and economic situations”.
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Shareef added, “we have to fight against all types of hatreds”.
