“Definitely, like if they hit Beirut right before hitting Paris”.
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In a response that gets a bit emotional, Aly puts it plainly: Despite the “million raging emotions” we may be feeling, holding our ranks and combating xenophobic attitudes is the real way to combat ISIL’s campaign of hate.
“Many complained about atrocities and the killing of innocent civilians”. They were not identified as Germans or held out as representing German culture, history and society and their actions against Jews and other minority groups during the Holocaust were not held out as representing Christianity.
These comments come as a crowded field of GOP presidential candidates are fighting to win the support of Christian conservatives in early voting states like Iowa and across the South, in part by vowing to fiercely protect religious liberties. Islamic apologetics lead us down a path of diminishing the role of religion in politics. The silence is deafening! It’s towns of Muslims that ISIS conquers, rapes and massacres.
This is a war between dogmatism and liberalism, between cartoons, books and Kalashnikovs, between games, music and grenades.
Taking out ISIS, if that’s what we want do to, is going to be very, very hard.
“We share the same values”, he said of France and Australia. World leaders swiftly condemned it as such.
Following the cowardly onslaught in the French capital, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI was among the first World leaders to send a message of sympathy and support to French President François Hollande, expressing his country’s solidarity with France and condemning with the utmost force what he described as “heinous terrorist acts”. The terrorist group ISIS eventually took responsibility for the attacks, but not before Hollande called for a “pitiless war” against those found guilty. “Islam is peace.” And while this narrative was heard by all of us and understood and accepted by many, it hasn’t brought any results. This interview of Aslan by CNN is an old one, but it pretty perfectly complements the current discussion over Islam and terrorism. So what makes it okay to alienate and treat Muslims that way?
“As British Muslims we utterly condemn ISIS who are abusing the name of Islam with their acts of terrorism”, the group says on its website. In Islam as well as in other religions, we are witnessing a phenomenon in which people without a sound foundation in religious learning attempt to represent themselves as religious authorities, even though they lack the scholarly qualifications for making valid interpretations of religious law and ethics. “They essentially argue that the vast majority of Muslims are not true Muslims, that they are in fact apostates, therefore their blood is licit”. A few are already doing this actively and efficiently across the globe, including people in religious states.
“We are no less Canadian than anyone else, it just happens that we are Muslim”. “Second, any occupation or dictatorship is against us all; we have to stand for justice for the people and the Syrian refugees”.
Moderate Muslims and ex-Muslims are the ones whose position can guarantee European secularism.
It is not clear when or where the video was made.
In Toronto, Islamists and their leftist allies protested with placards saying, “Terrorism has no Religion”.
Please, let’s live as though we’ll all be here for a long time.
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It is not the time to pray for Paris, it is the time to stand for Paris. “We all need to work together”.
