Imams had to understand modern French society and interpret the Qur’an to make it relevant to today’s Muslims it said and theologians must do more to refute Daesh’s ideology. Carson has said the USA should not elect a Muslim president, then amended his comments to say that a Muslim would be OK if he or she renounced the tenets of Islam. “When the wind comes, you have to bow down a little bit until the wind goes away”, Ali said.
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Americans hold complicated, sometimes contradictory views toward Islam and Muslims, depending largely on the current political and security context, according to a Bridge Initiative analysis released Thursday that synthesized two decades of opinion polls on the subject. Most will have to survive in a war-torn region.
Anti-Islamic attacks soared following January’s attacks in the French capital, rights groups have said. The political, economic and personal connections that may be welcome during more normal times can have a major downside during a time of rising radicalism.
However, Americans increasingly approve of the “singling out” of Muslims for increased scrutiny.
Islamic State militants have claimed responsibility for the Friday the 13th attacks that targeted France’s national soccer stadium, a packed concert hall and popular restaurants and cafes in one of Paris’ trendiest neighborhoods, killing 129 people and wounding more than 350.
Several mosques have been vandalized since Paris. After the attacks in Paris, calls have again been raised across the world for Muslims to rise up and speak out against the Islamic State group in all the forms they may take.
A Muslim group that tracks Islamophobia in France has reported a fresh spike of hate crimes since the attacks.
One of the victims was Asta Diakite, the cousin of Diarra Lassana, a Muslim soccer player who was playing at the Stade de France on Friday night.
Muslim reaction to the latest massacre has been more clear-cut than after the January extremist attacks in Paris.
“The anti-Muslim numbers have been rising slowly but steadily since 2012”.
The bitterness is undercut by anguish, however, and there has been no outpouring of anger as there was in the aftermath of January´s attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. More importantly, we should not abandon out of cowardice who and what we are.
We’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago.
In a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, Carson urged congressional Republicans to “extinguish” Syrian resettlement programs, saying the United States “cannot, should not and must not accept any Syrian refugees”.
And all Parisians of every religion are having to adjust to a whole new post-attacks atmosphere of heightened angst and suspicion. His mentor, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior leader of the group, appeared to increase the pressure, publicly taunting Muslims who failed to use any available means – “a bullet, a knife, a vehicle, a rock” – to shed “crusader blood”. When Yahoo pushed him on whether such tracking might require registering Muslims in a database or issuing ID cards noting their religion, Trump said he wouldn’t rule it out. “This is a time we need to stick together”. Over half of Syrian refugees are children. The French military intervened in 2013, sending in troops to push back Muslim extremists who seized the northern part of the country and claimed their own Islamic state.
Human Rights Watch accused U.S. governors’ who moved to reject Syrian refugees in their states of using refugees as a “scapegoat”.
“The internment of people of Japanese descent is a dark cloud on our nation’s history and to suggest that it is anything but a disgusting moment in our past is outrageous”, Clinton campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said in a statement.
But in France, where the climate of fear is intense and the Muslim minority has long felt singled out and separate, something different is happening.
How about we look at the poll numbers they put out, and let’s talk about whether or not this could be true, because it reveals significant levels of support for ISIS within the Muslim world. Sanders said he didn’t think the phrase was “particularly helpful”, and the third candidate, Martin O’Malley, said “radical jihadist” was the more accurate term.
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“Out on the streets, we’re scared”, Soraya Moumen, a Muslim woman in her twenties, said on her way to prayers at the Grand Mosque. This week, she called her parents to tell them about a job interview that would require her to travel from Baltimore to Washington.
