Local Muslim group condemns Paris attacks

Less than a month later I teamed up with Anwar Ibrahim, the charismatic leader of Malaysia’s opposition; the Palestinian-Austrian theologian Adnan Ibrahim; and a number of other authoritative Muslim figures from all around the world.

We can’t blame an entire group for the isolated actions of extremists. May be not. This is a double standard only meant to be applied to Muslims.

If the perpetrators called themselves [sic] Muslim, then I hope they’re all dead, courtesy of French military and police.

In quantitative terms, the latest Paris attacks are more or less as deadly as Timothy McVeigh massive truck bomb of the Oklahoma Federal Building in April 19, 1995. “And that’s very sad because many Muslims died, actually, on Friday”. No wonder governments and security experts across the board consider it to be bigger challenge than terrorism!

Let us imagine for a moment (ever if only for the sake of argument, even for the non-believers) that the Second Coming and an ensuing Final Battle is true. We can not give them what they want. The empire builders of Islam never exacted unspeakable horror on their enemies, in war and in peace. He hinted at knowing where the barbarism comes from and who the terrorists are, but did not name them or their source of inspiration: Islam. Terrorism has no religion and neither does humanity: “we urge Kiwis to stand together in humanity”. I don’t care what country they were originally from, I don’t care how hard their lives were, I don’t care what bad thing happened when they were five. There can be no other interpretation of Islam.

Turkey also has proven a frustrating ally at times, with lingering questions about its commitment to battling the Islamic State terrorist group. Just recently over 1,000 prominent scholars, organisations issued a fatwa against ISIS. At one point, a student tried to restrain a fellow protestor who was getting aggressive and seemed about to physically harass the photographer. “The Arabs call it “Daesh” and I will be calling them the “Daesh cutthroats”. The terror attack orchestrated by ISIS in Beirut, Lebanon on Thursday is emblematic of that fact.

“The Islamic State will not last long… they know that they will not last”, Nasrallah said, pointing to recent losses suffered by IS in Syria and Iraq. Politicizing our Islam has virtually eviscerated Muslim moral credibility in the West. If people believed that we were truly a people of conscious and not a people of convenience, there would be no expectation of Muslims to condemn selected instances of violence, nor would we feel any compulsion to do so. He took great pains to publicly rebuke the acts of harassment or violence against American Muslims and Sikhs in a few cities. Why do their standards change when it comes to Islam?

I know after reading this article haters will continue to abuse me particularly on social media and will deliberately twist my words. This includes her public pledge not to go to war with ISIS. Regarding the current “migrant” debate, it is important to understand that these “migrants” are not part of this problem: in their countries, they are victims of terrorism just as Paris residents are today.

We don’t yet have all of the information surrounding Friday’s tragic events and it’s still not entirely clear who is responsible.

Also Saturday, a Saskatoon Muslim group joined the chorus condemning the attacks.