Not In My Name

[KamaAina]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mona-shadia/charlie-hebdo-muslim_b_6436806.html

The Prophet Muhammad was not avenged by the massacre of the 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The Prophet and the majority of Muslims around the world were betrayed by those who claim to hold Islam as their religion and use it for their own political gains. Shame on them....

I find it perplexing and sickening that there are people out there who think they can defend God and the prophet with violence. Like they need you?! The bottom line is that a person who is confident enough in their religious convictions and in who they are would never be moved by an offensive depiction of their faith figures....

There's an ongoing debate within the American Muslim community on whether or not Muslims should condemn such attacks in the name of Islam. There's an argument that Christians and Jews and Buddhists never have to go out in full force and condemn acts done in the name of their respective religions. Even though, like with the Paris massacre case, those who do twist and turn religious texts to justify these actions. There is an argument that in condemning these acts we are admitting that it is done on behalf of Islam, that we are responsible and we are attaching guilt and shame to ourselves and Islam. There is an argument that the west has much more to apologize for its acts of genocide and war in the Middle East and other places. There's an argument that in expecting Muslims to apologize, we are subjugated by the west and held in a catch-22 scenario of having to apologize, even though these acts have nothing to do with our religion....

I simply condemn these acts out of my Islamic religious convictions, which teach me that I should speak out against injustice. All forms of injustice, and that I do. There's a certain pain that I feel when I watch as my religion is being run through the ground by loud ruthless voices who take all the headlines. If I'm able to counter that, by my actions before my words, I will always do it.

Dear Faux: File this away under "Muslim outrage over Paris attacks".

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R! nt

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Oddly enough I felt compelled to repeatedly condemn these attacks and I am an atheist.

I felt compelled to condemn these attacks because they were abhorrent.