Ahmed Abdi calls for unity and an end to the Muslim blame game.
After the cowardly terrorist attack in Paris on Friday evening, you might think that everybody would come together as one. Unfortunately this hasn’t been the case.
Instead of teaming up and figuring out ways to overcome terrorism, too many people are now playing the blame game. And who’s being blamed? Yes, you guessed it: Muslims. As news of the massacre broke on Friday night, ‘Muslims’ was trending on social media like never before.
But terrorism has no religion. The Paris terrorists bear no relation to approximately 1.7 billion Muslims here on earth. Furthermore, if they ‘terrorism’ and ‘Islam’ really were closely related, surely we would all be dying by now in the ensuing chaos.
Once again, Muslims are being used as a scapegoat. The attack on Paris were an aweful surprise and in response far too many people go into default mode and start blaming Muslims; as if the only way to react is to say Islam = Terror. Shameful, really.
Our hearts go out to all the people that died, their families, and to the city of Paris.
Similarly, are thoughts are – or should be – with the citizens of Baghdad and Beirut who also suffered at the hands of ISIS only a day or two earlier. But the way in which some atrocities are reported, while other terrorist acts are hardly reported at all, only serves to tarnish the name of Muslims worldwide; and it’s not fair.
According to some sources, less than two percent of terrorist attacks in the last five years have been committed by people calling themselves Muslims. Yet Islam as a whole is called out as terrorist or somehow disposed towards terrorism. Meanwhile much less is said about anti-Muslim terrorists such as Norwegian nutter Anders Breivik, or the Buddhist extremists and their pogroms against Muslims in Burma.
At times like this we need peace and unity. So give Muslims a break and stop pointing the finger at us.
Be safe, everybody.