Let us then remember what was done on April 19, 1995 by a man who was probably raised a Christian if he was raised in any religion at all. It is a war for liberal values. They contextualize what happened in the past, make a judgment on what is or isn’t acceptable now, and choose what interpretations to believe and how to deal with the facts as they are. They are not those who lead the worldwide arms markets.
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The 22-year-old guy who’s a disaffected fast-food worker and lives down the street is more unsafe than a Syrian refugee.
Those leading this ideological war against IS are the civilians – it is us. The silence is deafening! By declaring war on all Muslims, American citizens are declaring war on fellow Americans.
This is a war between dogmatism and liberalism, between cartoons, books and Kalashnikovs, between games, music and grenades.
“It was more hammering what they were believing than teaching us about the Quran”.
In order to do it, we shouldn’t simply go out again and sip our wine at terraces, it is not enough to dance, play and celebrate again as a form of protest. But now that Russia knows who blew up its plane as well as who attacked Paris, French and Russian planes are both targeting ISIS sites. World leaders swiftly condemned it as such.
A tweet on behalf of singer Sami Yusuf, shown in 2006, condemns the terrorist attacks on Paris.
In light of such statements, it is any more reasonable to think of all Muslim refugees as potential terrorists than it is to think the same of all Irish Americans like me? At its core, every religious belief system advocates tolerance, humility and peaceful coexistence, even with those we disagree with.
Najeeb says besides the ongoing grief over innocent people dying, it saddens the Muslim community that a terrorist group like ISIS claims to be an Islamic organization. When people use the term “Radical Islam” it is an oxymoron.
The newspaper says Shalaby was interrupted by a man who made anti-Muslim comments.
In June the trial of Bherlin Gildo, a Swedish national who had been accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear that the British intelligence and security forces had in fact aided the terrorist group that that Gildo had been accused of working with. Fadel says that helps explain why Sunni Muslim political leaders are hesitant to name ISIS as the enemies of true Islam. “They may have the name Islam in front, they don’t represent my faith, they don’t represent our faith and they may have the name state, but they appointed themselves, nobody in the global Muslim community appointed them”. A few are already doing this actively and efficiently across the globe, including people in religious states. He says groups like ISIS want to make the divide between religious groups. And if we leave the refugees with the choice of joining ISIS or dying, many more will join.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organisation in the United States, also joined in the condemnation, saying: “These savage and despicable attacks on civilians, whether they occur in Paris, Beirut or any other city, are outrageous and without justification”. We can monitor the communication of almost every Muslim and Arab in the Western world. “These people (terrorists) are misrepresenting our Islam”. We have cited numerous examples in which Islamist terrorists clearly describe their actions as religiously-inspired. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France in January, anti-Muslim violence more than quadrupled in the following six months, compared to the same period in 2014, according to the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, a watchdog group. “And I just wanted to extend my deepest condolences to the French people”.
Following the wave of the terror attacks in Paris which had claimed several lives, Muslims around the world have taken internet now to prove that terrorism has no religion.
This is only the beginning of this ideological war.
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It is not the time to pray for Paris, it is the time to stand for Paris. It is not the time to defend religions but to defend humanity.
