They say one of the biggest misconceptions about Islam is that it’s connected to the Islamic State. Muslim leaders also encouraged authorities to investigate the act as a hate crime.
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“But I do think it sends a signal in many ways implicitly that certain lives are more valuable than others”, he said.
There is also a concern someone who may have been targeted by ISIS will become radicalized and want to use the Islamic Centre to portray Muslims in a negative light. He’s a physician from Chicago who blogs at BeliefNet.
ISIS, al-Qaida, etc., are nihilistic religious extremists. “Islam teaches us to teach peace”. It still is to me.
It is imperative on French Muslim civic and religious leaders to work closely with both regional and national political leaders to develop programs to engage their communities in dialogue with mainstream society. The barbarous Islamic State – ISIS – was terrifying, but it was far away. “Where is the panel… on the Sunday talk shows where you have Muslim leaders alongside Western leaders to talk about how they’re going to conquer this problem”, asked Princeton Professor Amaney A. Jamal. But in Islam, apostasy is a capital offense. Of course they are not, and they should not be treated as if they were; nevertheless, if polls are to be believed, a large number of Muslims hold unsafe opinions. No you can not do that. The founder of that branch had followers in the House of Saud, who would create Saudi Arabia (our alleged ally in the Middle East).
He said too often, people don’t realize that.
Decades of seclusion of the Muslim population from the mainstream society has resulted in a sense of isolation and hopelessness.
The tragedies that Londoners have faced in the past, such as the London 7/7 bombings, have demonstrated that this great city is more powerful than any tragedy that can befall it and will remain united, cohesive and strong.
Hooper said the council is seeing an increase in anti-Muslim incidents since Friday’s attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350. Attacks like the ones in Paris mean another round of demands that Muslims condemn the acts, as if we should presume guilt, or perhaps a few indirect taint. Until their funding is stopped, ISIS will continue to rampage.
There are good reasons for this, says Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution.
“This idea that you can kind of render someone who claims to be a Muslim outside the faith sets a very unsafe precedent”, Hamid says. Insisting otherwise isn’t even effective at countering Islamophobia, since, to the unpersuaded, claims that Islam and ISIS are unrelated sound entirely divorced from reality. That is their legal and theological reasoning. They are not Muslims, and their actions are only that of blood thirsty criminals. Where are the vigorous condemnations of these ISIS atrocities?
Politics comes to play in all this, of course, says Mohammed Fadel of the University of Toronto. Or upon examining that, most people who opened fire in schools, churches, malls and theaters happened to be white, what if we stopped white people from entering the country because they were all a perceived “threat” to American freedom?
“The Sunni states in the region are either unwilling or incompetent or unable to intervene to stop ISIS”.
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It is obvious from the above that this terrorist organization is against humanity as a whole and that Muslims, Christians, Arabs, westerners, and all other religious and ethnic groups are being targeted by them.
