Posted on 11/21/2015 1:06:34 AM PST by GonzoII
According to experts, the fundamentalist jihadists who carry out murderous attacks are Muslims whose beliefs are rooted partly in longstanding Islamic teachings.
ROME - President Barack Obama refrained from describing Nov. 13's Paris attacks as "Islamic terrorism" or even radical Islamic terrorism, continuing his policy of distancing such atrocities from the religion.
But that nonetheless leaves open the question: How Islamic are Islamic terrorists?
To equate the attacks with "views of Islam" creates "stereotypes" that are "counterproductive" and "wrong," Obama told reporters at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, Nov. 16. "They will lead, I think, to greater recruitment into terrorist organizations over time, if this becomes somehow defined as a Muslim problem as opposed to a terrorist problem."
The Nov. 13 coordinated terrorist attacks of mass shootings, suicide bombings and hostage-taking were the deadliest in France since World War II, costing 129 lives and leaving at least 80 critically injured. The Islamic State group (ISIS), a fundamentalist jihadist group that emerged from the Sunni vs. Shiite conflicts in Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for the atrocity. Following the attacks, eight of the attackers were dead - seven of them from suicide explosions and one killed by security forces in the music venue.
President Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has long been reluctant to tie a "true Islam" to such attacks. Many Muslims also try to distance themselves from any linkage of their religion to violence, asserting that such claims are false and expose "moderate Muslims" to potential reprisals or victimization.
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Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion, only, where they are a minority.
Let me give it another try.
Mohammed was a thief. Wasn’t he Islamic?
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Really! To what ‘religion’ are they demanding submission ? Not Christianity
What ‘holy book’ are they following? What must the world obey if not Islam? That is the contaminant that must be cleansed from the planet.
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