Islam and terror attacks

But there’s another debate over how much ISIS actually draws from Islam. If you look at Syria it’s not rocket science, where is the money coming from? But the motive should be selfless, he said.

“Muslims make up only about 1 percent of the USA population”, he told host Maureen Fiedler, “and they’re also heavily concentrated in just a few cities around the country”. “We’re here to help each other improve”. This is the duty of Muslims in every age when the needed military power becomes available to them. The challenge we face is not some amorphous force called “terrorism;” the challenge is Islamic terrorism.

In 1786, when Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, then the ambassador of Tripoli, to discuss the terrorizing of American ships in the Mediterranean by Muslim pirates, Adja claimed that “it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them [i.e., the infidels] wherever they could be found, to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman [Muslim] who should be slain in battle was sure to go to paradise”.

“Pick up the supply lines and we will hurt them, pick up the funding and we will hurt them”.

He added: “The problem is they’re organized”. In essence, ISIS is an worldwide band of thugs using religion and terror to rape, kill, and extort money.

And there’s adversity from another direction.

It seems like the Western world has not yet made a distinction between the minority of so-called Muslims who engage in violent, suicidal operations – not on the basis of their religious convictions, but because they’re radicalized due to a variety of reasons, and the vast peaceful majority of Muslims scattered across the world, who are constructively contributing to the progress and prosperity of their societies. The phrase refers to a slice of radicalized Muslims who do not represent or speak for most Muslims and yet who act in part out of what they claim to be religious motivation.

Bhatti said the shooting has not rattled mosque members.

Since the Islamic State attacks in Paris on November 13, we have seen the development of a new, and unusual justification for the Obama administration’s insistent refusal to jettison its manifestly failed strategy of contending with IS specifically and with Islamic terrorism generally. The rest of their work is left to civilians like you an me who further notions of hatred and violence by scapegoating yet another group of people.

Mr. Mohamed is a recent University of Pittsburgh graduate who was born and raised in Harrisburg in an Indian immigrant family.

It is obvious that the terror attacks in Paris, and now Mali, had something to do with Islam – we know, for instance, that the gunmen in Mali offered to spare hostages if they could recite verses from the Koran.

The teenagers in Mr. Sharkas’ class echoed the sentiments.

Until that happens in a verifiable and compelling manner, I’m afraid many Americans will remain distrustful of Muslims living here.

By comparison, “what we practice as Muslims isn’t newsworthy”, with Sunday school classes and winter-coat drives for the needy and ice skating parties, he said.

To suggest that these people, who devote their entire lives to their religion, don’t know what they are talking about, is rather foolish.

It attributed the increase to “the Paris attacks and to the mainstreaming of Islamophobia by political candidates and lawmakers in the run-up to the 2016 general election” as well as politicians calling for the U.S. to stop accepting Syrian refugees and questioning whether screening processes are effective. They’ve been attracted by a perverted, fundamentalist and adventurous interpretation of Islam presented to them by some radical Imams, adopted the religion and carried out these heinous actions to fulfill the rapture they’d been promised: ascending to heaven.

The problem is that Hillary Clinton and her fellow Democrats do want Muslims to be painted with that broad brush, at least when it serves them politically.

“This kind of rhetoric is not American”, Ali said. ‘I think it is absolutely fair to say that there is a special burden on Muslim communities, because, whether we like it or not, these terrorists call themselves Muslims’.

He said Muslim historians dispute the authenticity of the quote. He responded that “I did swear, but I did not mean it”.