We are at war with IS, not Islam

Imam Magid says he wishes more Americans saw Muslims the way he sees them.

Fair or not a decade ago, that image is outdated.

– Muslims from around the D.C. area gathered in front of the White House Friday evening to honor the victims in the recent terror attacks in Paris and Mali and to condemn terrorism. Its one path to victory would be to divide those who oppose it, so division rather than conquest is the strategy the violent extremists employ. To attack Republicans for “inciting fear” about radical Islam in the wake of nonstop news about radical Islamic terror is just an unbelievable misfire.

The world watched in horror last Friday as a series of coordinated attacks unfolded in Paris, leaving close to 130 people dead.

Radisson siege Islamist militants with guns and grenades took about 170 people hostage at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako in the morning.

The Islamic State is waging an unending war, but they have a few definition of victory: all Muslims can live a righteous life under Islamic rule as they determine it. In a widely quoted speech after the conquest of Mosul, Al Baghdadi preached that this earthly life is not the real one and real life begins after death.

Ted Cruz: “Radical Islamic terrorism“.

From then on “there was a French civil administration functioning in Mali”, she said. In the same way that the Muslim community has an obligation not to in any way excuse anti-Western or anti-Christian sentiment, we have the same obligation as Christians. The political, economic and personal connections that may be welcome during more normal times can have a major downside during a time of rising radicalism.

There’s between 400 and 500 members of the Muslim Students of France active in the country. Graham recently remarked, “Islam is at war with us – we’ve witnessed its evil face firsthand over and over”.

Nine per cent is a fairly large number, and a number we should be ashamed of.

Attacks have also been reported on Muslim meeting places and shops elsewhere in France including anti-Muslim graffiti visible at many places.

French officials said Abaaoud, the Belgian ISIS operative who’s suspected of organizing the Paris attacks that killed 129 people around the city on Friday night, was not among those arrested.

Of course, we all feel the pain of Paris.

Carson, for instance, has said that he would not support a Muslim for president because that faith might not be “consistent” with the U.S. Constitution. Houdeyfa has publicly denounced the Paris massacre.

French Secularism: France keeps a strict separation of church and state under the principle of laïcité, or secularism.

“It is hard to think that the Paris attacks will not inspire more foreign fighter flow and strengthen their movement”, said Chivvis.

All religions are covered by these policies, and no one draws a direct link between them and the violence in France.

The Charlie Hebdo attacks in January exposed other fissures in French society.

How Is France Responding? They also claimed responsibility for the two suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon that killed 37 people on November 12. So France has wrestled with counter-terrorism issues for decades. It inspires supporters to action; it affects the willingness to die (and, in the case of ISIS, the willingness to kill); it influences strategic calculations and even battlefield decisions.

President Hollande, meanwhile, is looking for expanded powers that would include the ability to search homes more easily. The National Assembly on Thursday gave tentative approval to a plan to extending a state of emergency for three more months.