US Muslims face backlash after Paris attacks
Muslim leaders also have reported recent vandalism, threats and other hate crimes targeting mosques in Nebraska, Florida, Texas, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, NY and other states.
But they say a few people are not separating the two and Muslims around the world are feeling the backlash. They are, rather, products of troubled environments and have subscribed to distorted and misguided interpretations of Islam that have no basis in traditional Islamic doctrine. “They represent evil and war”.
“You don’t shoot people to believe in what you and I are beleiving”.
“I think lumping Muslims into one category is a big mistake”, he said. He’s a physician from Chicago who blogs at BeliefNet. Extremist organizations like ISIS are having a field day in luring disenchanted youth to a purposeful life of fighting so-called enemies of their faith.
Muslims living in the western world are continually being de-stabilized by the horrific and barbaric acts perpetrated against peaceful civilians in the world. It still is to me. It is either them or us, and we have the responsibility to win this war.
Muslims are in the front line of this ideological battle against religious fundamentalists.
The “is ISIS Islamic?” debate can seem circular and exhausting. Shaykh Muhammad al-Yacoubi, originally from Syria, goes so far as declaring them to be apostates. “They may have the name Islam in front, they don’t represent my faith, they don’t represent our faith and they may have the name state, but they appointed themselves, nobody in the global Muslim community appointed them”. No you can not do that.
Recently, a video of an unnamed Muslim man speaking out against the terrorist actions that have taken place this year in Paris has gone viral.
He said too often, people don’t realize that.
Yacoubi mentioned that he can not think of a time throughout Islamic history when Muslims were confronted with such a challenge from within. Even Americans have forgotten that Hezbollah has killed more Americans than any other terrorist group excluding 9/11.
Muslims died in the terror attacks carried out in France and elsewhere in ISIS’s campaign to create a caliphate.
“We don’t count people by religion, it should be highlighted that organisations like ISIS are betraying very value of Islam”, he added. Until their funding is stopped, ISIS will continue to rampage. He is the author of “Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East”.
Here locally, the Beekuns say the community is more understanding than other parts of the world.
That brought Schortgen into an explanation of the American foreign policy he said led to the proliferation of ISIS. That is their legal and theological reasoning.
When IS reads verses from the Quran that explain their murders and the way they commit them, the moderate Muslim’s claims that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam are not convincing, and not only for the sceptics. An overwhelming majority of Muslims oppose ISIS and its ideology.
Politics comes to play in all this, of course, says Mohammed Fadel of the University of Toronto.
“We as Muslims need to be aware of what is happening and if we see something that is not right then we need to flag it down”, he says.
“The Sunni states in the region are either unwilling or incompetent or unable to intervene to stop ISIS”.
Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday joined more than 20 governors, and sent a letter to President Barack Obama notifying him that New Jersey will not accept any refugees from Syria.