Us muslim and arab communities fear islamophobia after san bernardino shooting

“People are dying and we condemn them, the ones who did it”, said Mohammad Akhtar, president of the Muslim Council of America.

The mass shooting suspects identified themselves as Muslim, but mosque leaders in San Bernardino County say the suspects couldn’t be further from it.

“We never saw him raise his voice”. “And we respect and honor human life”.

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife are the suspected shooters in Wednesday’s massacre in San Bernardino, Calif.

“He was very mild, very calm, very peaceful, very nice, very decent”, he said. He said the suspect’s pilgrimage two years ago should not have made news. A small fire caused minor damage to the facility but no injuries or deaths, according to a statement from U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, a Virginia Democrat who condemned the incident and called on his colleagues in Congress to join him at services at the mosque to support the community. They had four guns, investigators have said. “If he had ever expressed his ideas, we could have tried to stop it”, he said.

Farook even held his wedding reception at the Islamic Center of Riverside, he said. “And it was a good evening”, Kuko said.

Kuko said Farook used to come to the mosque daily. “He had a wife…he had a warm house, he had a baby”.

The family at first was concerned that Farook might be a victim of the shooting because they knew he worked as an environmental inspector at the county’s health department and sometimes worked at the Inland Regional Center, Ayloush said.

“Opened the door – a gun pointed right at my face”, he said. “I am in shock that something like this could happen”.

FOX13 asked Muslims in Memphis if they feel the need to defend their religion.

“I could hear it in our dispatcher’s voice that this was actually happening”, Madden said.

We also must not be naive, and understand there will be others in this country like Farook.

“I don’t know what has gone through his mind”, he said. Explain to me why you took that action.

Abed Ayoub, legal and policy director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), said there was fear the attacks would lead to a backlash against the Muslim community.

But the official said the contact was with “people who weren’t significant players on our radar” and dated back some time.

“Of course, as Muslims in 2015, we have to be fairly hardened against comments that are insensitive and inappropriate, but the New York Post in particular has kind of two journalistic arms”.

At Dar-al-Uloom, the effects were already being felt.

On another dating website, Arab Lounge, he wrote: “I try to live as a good Muslim, looking for a girl who has the same outlook, wear hijab“.

On Thursday morning, he checked the mosque voicemail and found messages from strangers that had been left overnight, spewing anti-Islamic hate.

Usman also mentioned that members of local mosques should keep a watchful eye for each other.

“We are not able to grieve with our fellow Americans when tragedies like this happen”. The Ahmadiyya Muslim community is a reformist worldwide movement within Islam.