At least 129 people were slaughtered in the Paris massacre and ISIS claimed responsibility.
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But Muslim Australian TV host Waleed Aly took a different tack from the typical host on American TV.
“ISIL is weak”, he declared at the opening of the five-minute segment on The Project. “But, ISIL doesn’t want you to know that”.
Waleed Aly has urged Australians to not fall for the Islamic State’s strategy, saying the terrorist group is striving to make Muslims the enemy of the West. It is that black and white.
In the wake of the Paris attacks, Waleed talks about what ISIL has told us that they want – a world divided against itself.
“They don’t want you to know that would quickly be crushed if they ever faced a proper army on a real battlefield”.
Calling the organisation “weak”, he said, “What we don’t know yet is if the attack was planned, ordered or funded by ISIL’s leaders in Syria because the problem is, this is what ISIL do”.
US President Barack Obama ruled out a military intervention in the Middle East country at the G20 summit in Turkey on Monday, while Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the most effective “boots on the ground” would be Syrian forces.
Mr Aly said Isis has admitted to taking credit for attacks not in direct association with the group in its monthly magazine Dabiq.
They want westerners to act hostile towards Muslims, and in turn, have those Muslims turn to ISIS in retaliation.
“And now they want it to go global”.
Yet it is his praiseworthy closing remarks that are the most empowering, as he unequivocally describes the terrorist organisation as ‘dumbfounded in its stupidity and blood-curdling in its barbarity’.
“We are all feeling a million raging emotions right now”. I’m furious at these terrorists. I’m sickened by the violence & I’m crushed for the families which were left behind, however, you know what, I will not be manipulated. “We all need to come together because it is exactly what ISIL doesn’t want”. I know how that sounds. It’s a cliché. But it’s also true, because it’s exactly what ISIL doesn’t want.
“If you’re a Muslim leader telling your community they have no place here… if you’re someone with a Facebook or Twitter account firing off misguided missives of hate you’re helping Isil and I’m pretty sure that right now none of us wants to help these b**tards”.
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If you are preaching hate at a time when what we need is more love, then you are helping ISIL, Ali says, and they (ISIL) have said as much in their propaganda.
