“Most recently, a poll from the Center for Security Policy released data showing “25 percent of those polled agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad” and 51 percent of those polled ‘agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah'”. “True Muslims know the ruthless violence of so-called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion …”
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One might compare what faces Islam today to what Christianity faced in the fourth century in the form of Arianism, a teaching that denied the full divinity of Christ and held that Jesus was not God by nature but a creature susceptible to change. One of their most common practices is picketing the funerals of dead soldiers as well as the funerals of gay murder victims.
People from a cross-section of faiths were killed or injured or responded at the scene, providing medical aid and later praying at vigils.
After every terrorist attack at home and overseas, the refrain rises, “Where is the Muslim condemnation?”
For whatever reason, Chuck Todd just let it drift, but in the speech that Ridge was talking about, that he wished Obama would have called him about for advice, President Obama said the exact fucking thing Ridge says he didn’t say! (There have actually been 335 mass shootings in the United States already this year, but he only does the big ones.) But this time Obama spoke from the Oval Office. Do you ever hear them say “Christian terrorist”? With Obama calling terrorism “a real problem that Muslims must confront without excuse”, just what special obligations do American Muslims now owe the nation in facing up to terrorism?
According to the New York Times, since the attack on the Twin Towers, there have been 26 deadly terrorist attacks in the United States and all were done by homegrown terrorists, or terrorists that were born and raised in the U.S. Of those 26 attacks, seven were related to Islamic extremists while the other 19 were led by right-wing extremists.
Indian Muslims shout slogans during a protest against ISIS, an Islamic State group, and the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015.
But no such force will go after the Islamic State as long as Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian and Russian allies are waging their barbaric war on Sunnis in Syria. What do you say to someone who is simply, at this moment, anxious? “But what are they fighting for?” He pointed to a recent Ramadan fundraising drive among American Muslims to raise money to rebuild black churches that have been the target of arson. It is not they who should carry a guilty conscience or shoulder fears of our reprisals.
To Ashim, education is the best way to combat false ideas and information. Only 9 percent of Americans say they know a great deal about Islam and about a third (35 percent) say they know something about the Muslim religion.
Nevertheless, most Americans admit that they don’t understand Islam particularly well. I mean, like Ridge wrote it himself!
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We must learn to separate chaff from the wheat, the worldly affairs of politics from the noble ideals that stand the stand of time. He said the Islamic religion is misunderstood, “What Isis represents is not Al-Islam”.
