Upstate Islamic Group Says Their Good Faith Is Tarnished By Radical Terrorists

The discovery of a Syrian passport near the body of one assailant in the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last Friday has stirred fears among United States lawmakers and governors that jihadists are seeking to blend in with refugee masses in order to strike later.

Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, asked law enforcement officials to step up patrols at mosques and other Islamic institutions.

“These people are not Muslim”, says Wafi Abdouss, a young Internet personality from Morocco in a recent Youtube video.

I encourage every voter to put people into office who are living for the future of this country, not it’s probable destruction. In the single worst act of homegrown terrorism ever committed on American soil, Timothy McVeigh and a Michigan-farm-raised boy named Terry Nichols (perhaps a fellow Christian?) blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 600-far more than were killed and injured in Paris. Ibrahim condemned what happened in Paris.

Many Muslims have been citing the Quran to condemn the attacks: “Whoever kills not to retaliate for a soul slain…shall be as if he had slain mankind altogether” (5:32). He’s a physician from Chicago who blogs at BeliefNet. As the ISIS statement shows, it views Paris as “the capital of prostitution and vice, the lead carrier of the cross in Europe”. And that has drawn volleys of responses from defenders of the faith or simply of tolerance.

“I’m not going to fight [ISIS] on the battlefield, but what I can do is speak out against them in the strongest manner possible”.

A sociologist at the State University of NY in New Paltz, Kaufman noted that because hashtags “have the potential to go viral, they can also bring rapid awareness to an issue across borders”. That’s a little like excommunication in the Catholic tradition. Horrific as they have been, the ISIS attacks have finally united Russian Federation and the Western allies against their common foe. It’s a religious group that he says is growing in our area. No you can not do that. “There are radical minds, and radical people, but Islam is Islam”, Shareef explained.

Yacoubi mentioned that he can not think of a time throughout Islamic history when Muslims were confronted with such a challenge from within.

“As French citizens, and as human beings, we have been wounded by this attack”, Yasser Laouti, spokesman for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, said.

The mosque’s name, Masjid Al-Salaam, means “Mosque of Peace” in Arabic. Until their funding is stopped, ISIS will continue to rampage.

There are good reasons for this, says Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution. He is the author of “Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East”.

“That’s exactly what ISIS does”. If the terrorists are wrong theologically, who better than the most visible Muslim advocacy group in the country to set them straight? Where are the vigorous condemnations of these ISIS atrocities? It was a stunning global display of human resilience and unity, and its inclusion of people from all walks of life ensured that no one was left out.

As Muslims, there is added tragedy to this event. “Islam is working with other faiths to build unity and to build us up”, he said.

“The Sunni states in the region are either unwilling or incompetent or unable to intervene to stop ISIS”. And while Hezbollah and other radical Muslims that believe in the subjugation of infidels (non-Muslims) are discounted, new groups will inevitably spring up to take the place of ISIS, just as it emerged after al-Qaeda was weakened.

In 1988, the Civil Liberties Act-signed by President Ronald Reagan- apologized for the internment, recognized that it had been prompted by “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership”, and authorized reparations that eventually came to more than 1.6 billion dollars.

“This group of believers were youth who divorced the worldly life and advanced towards their enemy hoping to be killed for Allah’s sake, doing so in support of His religion”, the ISIS statement said.

They want a worldwide kingdom called a caliphate.