Muslims Around the World Have Overwhelmingly Negative Views of ISIS

And a country that can blithely ignore 63 shooting attacks in its schools since the beginning of this year can manage to live with a small Islamist attack every few years too. Those attacks will happen no matter what the United States (to pick an example at random) is doing or not doing overseas. He said people should get to know Muslims before passing judgment. “One of the most unsettling aspects is that the suspects reportedly weren’t on the radar screen at all”.

“The Muslim community has been speaking out”.

Graham once again took to his Facebook page on Wednesday to double down on his views about Islam, extremism and Muslim immigration – and to take critics to task, saying that “politicians in Washington seem to be totally disconnected with reality”.

Following the Paris and San Bernardino, Calif., attacks, Mr. Trump has called for a database tracking all US Muslims, shutting down mosques, and, most recently, banning Muslims from entering the country, proposals he has suggested will keep America safer. This will be a generational, global struggle among Muslims-and it won’t be accomplished during the tenure of any one American president.

They will have to explain, to other Muslims and to a candid world, why political Islam and its various strains of apocalyptic teachings are a thing of the past.

Among all religious groups, Muslims tend to be viewed the least favorable by Americans, who view them roughly the same way they view atheists.

Alas, moderate Muslim leaders in America don’t appear to be up for engaging in a war of ideas about their faith. Individual Muslim commanders also went public.

While this latest declaration is just another part of Trump’s steady stream of racist rhetoric (now being roundly condemned by everyone, from J.K. Rowling to Dick Cheney), we can not afford to continue treating Trump like an extreme right-wing anomaly that will disappear once he loses his presidential campaign.

Without naming names, Haddad describes a pending case in which Muslim parents turned in their 17-year-old son after he grew a long beard and began talking about violence, Islamic State, and the evils of the U.S. The boy was forced into psychiatric treatment and now faces a competency hearing in court.

Fatime Al-Hayani, retired professor of Middle Eastern studies, said a double-standard exists in United States society when choosing who to label as terrorists.

Urecki said he understands very well that the US has its enemies.

To identify likely villains, whatever their motivations, in advance, social science has found common elements, according to Cohen. Multiple attacks across Paris last Friday night left more than one hundred dead and many more injured. For a tiny fraction of Muslims, the lens of radical religious ideology magnifies such frustrations and yearnings. Many have served in the military protecting the country against terrorists.

Urecki was born in Argentina and moved to the U.S.in 1965.

When such brutal terror strikes a place like ours, in San Bernardino, its devastating swath reaches us all.

Despite the negative image that is being propagated by Western media after ISIS and other extremist groups committed heinous acts of violence in the name of Islam, the number of Muslims is expected to exceed the number of Christians by the end of this century.