We Must Separate Attacks on Muslims From Attacks on Islam

Ben Carson: “Radical Islamic jihadists”.

New research has found that people in 11 countries with significant Muslim population hold overwhelmingly negative views about the Islamic State, with Pakistan being the exception.

Shamso Iman is a Muslim student studying community psychology at St. Cloud State, and she says the Paris attacks have only added to the tensions and misconceptions people have towards people of the Islamic faith.

Bush worked hard to sow tolerance for Muslim-Americans, convinced-like President Obama-that respect and openness was an asset in the fight against jihadists. “No one in the GOP blames all Muslims but no one in the DNC blames any Muslims, even the ones who shout Allah Akbar just before cutting off the head of a person who professes being a Christian”. The mayor of Roanoke, Va., referenced Japanese internment in arguing that his city should not resettle Syrian refugees.

But the language used by Republicans is exceedingly inflammatory. But again, this is not about who suffered more. “Doesn’t mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination, but you’re putting your intellect into motion”.

“We urge public officials and presidential candidates not to scapegoat American Muslims and not allow Islam to be demonised by Islamophobes or by the anti-Islamic actions or terrorists”, said Nihad Awad of CAIR.

“We come in peace and we believe in peace and our religion talks about love and peace”, said Sana Elyas.

Well, this is something that we spoke a lot about at the G20.

Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of the Parisian suburb of Drancy, said to the gatherers “1.5 million people are hostages of Daesh, 1.5 million people are hostages of these barbarians who are sullying the name of Islam and Muslims”.

Let us not give power to those who are causing pain and suffering in the world.

None of the candidates mentioned responded to requests for comment on their remarks.

Assimilation is prized in France over the kind of “melting pot” ideal that exists in the United States.

“It’s insanity”, Miller told Foreign Policy, when asked Friday about the tone of Republican rhetoric.

Hillary Clinton’s claim during last Saturday night’s debate that she did not wish to use the phrase “radical Islam” out of fear of painting “with too broad a brush” exemplifies the dangers of refusing to confront the realities of this threat.

Uncivil and intolerant fundamentalist religion and politicization of religion was not – and will not be – the best answer to make American (or any) liberal democracy work. The family has been sent to CT instead.

Immediate reactions from a number of hysterical politicians in the U.S. Congress and local governments are to “stop refugees from Syria”.

A cautious but common-sense reaction among terrorist experts is that “no competent terrorist would choose the USA refugee process as a preferred strategy for gaining entry into the U.S”.

In this Monday, November 16, 2015 photo, evidence cards sit in the yard of a house near the Baitul Aman mosque in South Meriden, Conn., where police and the FBI were investigating reports of multiple gunshots fired at the mosque.