Plymouth Muslims condemn Paris attacks which go against the fundamental

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Muslims around the USA are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence.

The president said he and the newly elected Mr. Turnbull also discussed “the continuing need to ramp up pressure” on the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the attacks that killed at least 129 people on Friday.

Calling ISIS or al-Qaeda Islamic, and their barbaric actions as representative of Islam, benefits no one, other than these terrorist groups themselves.

Fundamentalism is the enemy because it doesn’t value life and how it only views the world as being with them or against them.

I believe that such a strategy is harmful to the cause of secularism and humanism; moreover it is rewarding for the far-rights.

Several of the Imams, who represented 26 different Islamic societies and mosques from New Jersey and one from NY City, gave statements stressing how important it was for their voices to be heard throughout their communities, both Muslim and non Muslim, so that people knew how they felt. As well as the enjoyment of noisy streets, endless dancing, loud music and red wine on the terraces of the cafes of the 10 and 14 arrondissements, Paris taught me about pluralism.

“I think any human being would condemn that as an act of madness”, he said. There is a perception by many conservative Muslims that France is a nation that is hostile to Islam.

Muslim religious authorities are doing the same.

A few in the West refuse to acknowledge that radical Islamists with similar ideologies to ISIS, such as Hezbollah, are terrorists. That’s a little like excommunication in the Catholic tradition.

“They invoke the Qur’an, and quote its verses”, a voiceover says in the video, which features students holding a sign bearing the hashtag #NousSommesUnis (translation: “We are united”). No you can not do that. “There are radical minds, and radical people, but Islam is Islam”, Shareef explained. It should now be obvious that the Islamic State will brutalize Muslim “apostates” and Christian and Jewish “unbelievers” with equal savagery.

But other mainstream Islamic scholars have calibrated their criticism more carefully.

To adopt a politically correct discourse and suggest these attacks had nothing to do with religion and that Islam is the religion of peace (as if other religions are not?) would be also naive and inaccurate.

But Afifi stopped short of accusing ISIS of apostasy.

There are good reasons for this, says Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution. “What you have to do is wipe out the idea”.

“That’s exactly what ISIS does”.

Condemning the actions of ISIS from an Islamic perspective begins with scripture.

Earlier also Muslims had faced numerous rants and embarrassment for terrorist activities, but the bare fact which needs to be reiterated here is that no religion promotes terrorism ever.

Politics comes to play in all this, of course, says Mohammed Fadel of the University of Toronto.

“The Sunni states in the region are either unwilling or incompetent or unable to intervene to stop ISIS”. If there are Middle Eastern restaurants or neighborhoods near you, take a family field trip. The logic of ISIS, as revealed in its own propaganda magazine, Dabiq, is to turn the world into a bipolar camp, where Muslims are the only antagonist from left, right and centre perspectives.