Islamic State fighters praise Paris attacks, call for more
But he has rarely criticized the peaceful Muslim community for failing to speak out.
“The Muslims that I know, that I’m part of, their heart bleeds for what happened in Paris”.
Before that, the identity of the attackers remained unconfirmed; however, a witness quoted by BFM television said he heard rounds of automatic rifle fire and someone shouting “Allahu Akbar!” at The Bataclan. A peace seminar was also held at the Nasir Mosque on Sunday at which a one minute silence was help to remember the victims of Paris terrorist attacks.
Here I am, rolling my eyes at every “Australia’s next” and “stop letting them in”.
In the United Kingdom, leader of the Muslim Council of Great Britain Dr Shuja Shafi, condemned the attacks “in the strongest possible terms”, labelling them “horrific and abhorrent”.
“Given the extreme seriousness of the situation, we called the nation to unity and call on all Muslims to pray so that France can face this test in calm and unity”.
We must always remember that blind hatred of millions has never been, and will never be, the right way to heal the world.
It’s hard to believe we twice elected a president who refuses to defend the United States. They want to hurt a few people.
Yesterday, as Metro reports, the hashtags #terrorismhasnoreligion and ##NotInMyName started trending on Twitter as people tried to counter any backlash against ordinary people.
How is it that the Muslim world explodes in an orgy of protest and violence when a cartoon of their Prophet is published but when innocent people are murdered in the name of their religion the Muslim world is quiet?
When contacted by The Japan Times, Tokyo Camii & Turkish Culture Center, Japan’s largest venue of Islamic worship, refused to comment on the attack.
“Muslims are outraged by this and other criminal acts committed by criminals and there is no basis or justification in Islam for such merciless acts of terrorism”.
A coalition of eight leading U.S. Muslim organizations held a Saturday press conference in Washington D.C.to denounce the horrific Paris terrorist attacks that killed over 120 people.
Edina Lekovic said her 4-year-old son was puzzled to see his mother turn serious as she made dozens of calls about the violence in Paris.