Similar to the rest of the world, I was heartbroken to hear the news of the terrorists attacks in Paris.
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The attacks in Paris on Friday left 129 people dead and hundreds of others injured.
It wasn’t just Islamists who were pushing the point that the Paris attack had nothing to do with Islam. I condemn the ParisAttack. While, yes, a few European Muslims are refugees, and a few are recent immigrants, many more are indigenous, and have been Muslim for longer than many Protestants have been Protestant.
“ISIL’s strategy is to split the world into two camps”. An excerpt went viral on Facebook, surpassing 22 million views as of this writing. They are not those who make deals with the motherland of Wahhabism (from which IS gets inspiration), Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim condemned what happened in Paris.
His assessment dovetails with that of French-American anthropologist Scott Atran, who has written extensively about terrorism.
It’s a popular weapon for extremist groups, and one that ISIS in particular has practiced, as numerous reports have recently observed: Commit atrocities that will create a backlash against Muslims living in the West, to provoke feelings of alienation that will ultimately drive a fraction of marginalized Muslims into extremism, and thus into the hands of ISIS.
The terrorists want to deepen divisions – to divide and conquer. The campaign originally launched in September 2014 by Young British Muslims at the Active Change Foundation, a London-based organization working to end violence among youth.
“Stop Islamophobia. There are nearly 2 billion Muslims around the globe. We are all affected by a terrorism that has no values and is just against life”. A Pakistan native, he told VOA he came to the United States previous year, and “everyone has been so welcoming here”. The terrorist attacks, which occurred both at the Bataclan Theater and outside of the Stade de France, are reported to have been the deadliest attack on French soil since the second World War. You do not f*****g shoot people to believe in whatever you are or I am believing – correct? While everyone finds it preposterous to ask Christians to answer for the KKK in America, the LRA in Uganda, the IRA in Ireland or Christian militias in auto, among other so-called Christian terrorist groups, the same rule doesn’t seem to apply to Muslims anywhere. They suffer because of the extremists.
Shari Eaton, from the USA upper Midwestern state of Minnesota, felt compelled to use it Tuesday to rebuke prominent American evangelist Franklin Graham.
“NO – you do NOT speak for me as a Christian”, Eaton challenged, using the new hashtag.
Muslims in Plymouth have spoken out against the terror attacks in Paris which claimed more than 120 lives – describing them as un-Islamic and calling on the whole community to stand in solidarity.
Confronting prejudice and misunderstanding is personal for Eaton, 54. Without these immigrants, we would not be the resilient society we have become. This compassionate act of President Bush reaffirmed the place of Muslim Americans in their own country and thus catalyzed the healing of our nation. Republican front runner, Donald Trump, has advocated to close down certain mosques, supporting his decision by saying, “You’re going to have to watch and study the mosques, because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques”.
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As the glare of public scrutiny caught them, they hurried to equate the Paris attacks to the Beirut bombing and started venting contrived anger that the media had not given fair coverage to the Lebanon disaster, compared to France. Boko Haram, an Jihadist group that operates mainly in northern Nigeria and Cameroon (and recently pledged affiliation to Islamic State), was responsible for over 6,600 deaths according to the Institute of Economics and Peace (which excludes military targets).
