This was the simple, straight to the point message posted on the bullet hole riddled window of the Le Carillon bar, where jihadist gunmen mowed down several young people enjoying a night out on November 13th.
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A political cartoonist has highlighted the differences between members of Isis and people of the Islamic faith amid a growing anti-Muslim sentiment across the world. With an obviously sarcastic tone, RedState.com says anti-Muslim backlash “includes unverified reports of such horrors as the Eiffel Tower being spray painted on a Mosque, along with “threatening phone calls” being placed to a mosque in Florida. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land”. The attacks have rightly outraged ordinary people everywhere.
“The authors of these acts have nothing to do with the values of Islam, they are just assassins”.
But statements like this may not be enough to quell the anger of a few, especially those on the far right in France, who are resistant to the influence of Islam in the country.
In the aftermath of the January terrorist attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish store the number of Islamophobic incidents across France rocketed.
Let us hope that the West will not trade the French blood with Muslims’ blood elsewhere.
On Wednesday President Hollande urged the nation not to “give in to fear” or excessive reactions in the wake of the attacks.
Ms Sorensen, the editor of Fusion Comics, said on her website it was “hard to imagine [the GOP] making similar demands that various acts of homegrown terrorism be called the work of “radical Christians”. Every bigoted anti-Muslim politician is another recruiting tool for Islamic terrorists.
Leaders of the mosque don’t know the motive of the shooter or shooters, said Salaam Bhatti, a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in NY, to which the mosque belongs. It was a box of chocolates, and her police colleagues had placed it there. “We always hear the question, ‘where are the voices of the Muslim community.’ We are voicing it, but it is not always heard”.
Clinton said, “The bottom line is that we are in a contest of ideas against an ideology of hate, and we have to win”. “This is about Syria”. You do not f*****g shoot people to believe in whatever you are or I am believing – correct? On September 11, 2001, not only did those radical extremists hijack those planes, they hijacked my religion to murder innocent people.
“Just a little bit of a black hole in a beige garage door, when we parked right there”, Amir Elmasri told Click Orlando. “ISIS is focused on a population of people who are frustrated with their environmental, their social and their economic situations”, he said. It actually plays into their hands by alienating partners we need by our side. Demonizing Syrian refugees, Newt Gingrich tweeted, “Now can we have a serious debate about millions of Syrian refugees and how many terrorists will be in the crowd”. “Everyone has to take responsibility”.
Mraizika and his organisation have thrown his support behind those measures.
“We are in 100 percent agreement”.
“It’s a teachable moment”, Bhatti said. “But we still can’t close our eyes to the fact that there is a distorted and unsafe stream of extremism within the Muslim world that continues to spread”.
Mraizika’s call was echoed, albeit in slightly different language by the French Muslim blogger Chronic 2.
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It should be apparent that the Muslims who have long made America their home and those who have immigrated in recent decades live by an ethic that rejects the ISIS message.
