Moderate Muslims must join fight vs. ISIS

We should focus attention on these so-called moderate Muslims.

Referring to members of these terrorists groups in any religious sense such as Islamic, Islamist or Jihadist is inaccurate.

The spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes after 9/11 led to a decline in assimilation rates in American Muslim communities, a study published last year in The Economic Journal found. In places where hate crimes increased the most, Muslim immigrants in subsequent years spoke English less fluently, were less likely to marry non-Muslims, and, if female, were less likely to work outside the home, reported the Washington Post.

One of those people is Mohammed Mraizika, Secretary General of the Union of Mosques of France (UMF).

I would like to add our voice to the voices of everyone else around the globe in condemning the barbaric and savage attacks committed by ISIS against innocent civilians in Paris, Lebanon, Sinai, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and everywhere else where they have displayed their inhumane and senseless brutality.

These people do not belong to any religion; they are nothing but cold-blooded murderers.

The bigotry and hate we’ve witnessed in the last few days has sadly been reminiscent of the response to January’s terrorist attacks at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

In this Monday, November 16, 2015 photo, evidence cards sit in the yard of a house near the Baitul Aman mosque in South Meriden, Conn., where police and the FBI were investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque. But the very next verse says, “The penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger…is none but that they be killed or crucified…That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment”.

What the Islamic State appears to be doing is looking at how Islam is practiced now, rejecting it, and claiming that they’ve established a legitimate caliphate under which Sharia law must be implemented.

Muslims have also been urged to join an “anti-terror” protest on Friday at the Grand Mosque in Paris, where the rector Dalil Boubakeur has voiced his “horror” at the “unspeakable acts”. Muslim people everywhere condemned the Paris attacks using the strongest language.

However, they say generally after every terrorist attack, there are still those who lash out.

She was punched in the chest and hit with an object thought to have been a box cutter. Non-Muslims “were often bullied into converting to Islam, and those who resisted were too scared to cook pork in communal kitchens in case it caused offence”.

Amnesty global said: “Now more than ever, we must stand in solidarity with everyone who has suffered violence and war – including refugees”. “This is about Syria”. “They don’t represent Islam, because they don’t represent what we believe in. But it’s hard to accept anything when 129 people have been killed”.

“This time there was no revenge motive, this time they just attacked anything that symbolized France”. Such an act will be the death blow to ISIS, and terrorists everywhere. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace.

They have stolen Islam’s holy book, as well, twisting its words and ignoring its major themes to justify murder and violence in the pursuit of an apocalyptic vision that will earn them God’s blessing and eternal life in heaven. “We are telling people not to cede to provocation”. If we are to actually make a difference, first we need to educate ourselves. In order to defend our sacred values of freedom and secularism that guarantee equality and peace and joyful lives to all – believers and infidels.