Europe's Muslims Stand Up to ISIS With Public Protests, Twitter Campaign

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/26063-europes-muslims-stand-up-to-isis-with-public-protests-twitter-campaign

From Norway in the far north to Germany and France, Muslims have taken to the streets to denounce the IS militants controlling large areas of Iraq and Syria who they say have hijacked their religion and terminology to spread hate and breed violence.

The IS group are “terrorists and murderers who drag Islam into the dirt and bring hatred and suffering to the people, including to their own fellow Muslims, in Syria, in Iraq and elsewhere,” said Aiman Mazyek, chairman of Germany's central council of Muslims.

Along with other Muslim groups, Mazyek's council organised last week a day of prayers and rallies across Germany, which is home to around four million Muslims, mainly with Turkish roots.

Under the open sky in the Berlin suburb of Kreuzberg — known affectionately as little Istanbul for its large Turkish population — thousands knelt on prayer mats and listened to speeches against violent extremism.

“They are acting under the banner of the Prophet, but their crimes show that they have not understood a word of what Allah has revealed to us and how our Prophet lived by these commandments,” said a statement read out in mosques across Germany.

Similar marches have taken place in Norway and Denmark under the banner “say no to the (non) Islamic State. “Other Muslims have taken to social media to combat the Islamic State group, which itself has used Twitter effectively to recruit potential recruits.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Sounds good to me.

The voices of reason.

Thanks posting.

[pampango]

2. I dare say this will not stop the anti-immigrant right in Europe from spreading fear of Muslims

as a part of its strategy. Like the US right, stoking the fear of 'others' is at the heart of how they get elected.

[T_i_B]

3. I'm sure the British press will go out of their way to ignore this.

As it doesn't fit in with their agenda.

Here's another protest by Muslims that the British Press ignored, about an issue that the far right over here is doing all it can to exploit

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/video-muslim-protest-against-rotherham-child-abuse-held-without-incident-1-6852473