Anti-Muslim violence rises in France following Paris attacks: Monitors

Since then, everyday life has become more complicated for Muslims everywhere around the world. Witnesses said the attackers stormed the hall, firing into the crowd of 1,500 concert attendees. Joni Ernst, Wasserman Schultz said that she received financial backing from donors who “embrace radical Tea Party ideology”. Meanwhile, authorities confirm a third person was killed during a police operation earlier this week to thwart another planned attack. And as the country seeks to strike ISIS in response to the Paris attacks, extending its military operations into the Iraqi and Syrian theater, analysts say the country may not have the capacity to be everywhere at once.

The President of Austria’s Islamic Religious Community has spoken about the consequences of the Paris terror attacks for Muslims and how frustrated he feels that Muslims have to constantly distance themselves from terrorists. He used the religion that preaches, “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”, as the justification for killing 12 million people. Police patted down their bodies and searched their bags before letting them pass. Many said they’d never seen such reinforced security. It is time for the Muslim community to step forward, raise their voices, march and clarify its position openly, before the Islamophobic fear that is beginning to take over the collective Western psyche degenerates into acts of violence against the innocent and peaceful Muslim community.

Rather than shutting the doors to immigrants or flying more sorties to bomb supposed ISIS hideouts, new strategies are needed to defeat ISIS, said author and professor Vijay Prashad. We don’t kill people because they’re different from us. “You’re supposed to love and stand against oppression; that is what the religion encourages”, said Iman.

Maura Yasin says she took part to emphasize that ISIS is not Islam.

The Pew Research Center, a non-partisan fact tank, informs the public about issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They are to blame for the things I have to experience. “Like I said before, it’s because of generalisations”. “This is home for me, I grew up here, and this is all I know”. I am a Muslim, but that doesn’t make me a terrorist.

“My fear is that this reaction will make a bad situation worse”, he says. I have written about how, even if we personally believe liberalism is the best available ideological framework for ordering society, that should not be allowed to distort our understanding of mainstream Islamist movements such as, say, the Muslim Brotherhood and its analogues across the region. People who killed Charlie Hebdo journalists to avenge the honor of their prophet had ample justification in the canonical texts to do so. Most will have to survive in a war-torn region. 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. Underscoring the power of religion in general, and Islam in particular, may provide fodder for bigots who might latch on to our statements and misuse them for their own ends.

Iman and others hope to clear away people’s misunderstandings and come together in the aftermath of the attacks.