By Tarek Fatah
It is almost two weeks since jihadi Islamists carried out a terrorist attack in Indonesia, causing many casualties, including injuries to two Canadians. The dust had barely settled when on Sunday, other jihadis, half a world away, struck with a vengeance and barbarity that shocked the world. This time, their playground was the Muslim-dominated parts of northern Nigeria. More than 100 people have been killed, and the fighting is said to be continuing.
One would expect Canadian and U.S. Islamist groups to come out with the usual denunciations but, surprisingly, even cliched condemnations failed to materialize. In the past, Islamist groups like CAIR, the CIC and ISNA have issued statements about "Islam being a religion of peace" and that "terrorists do not speak for Islam," but not this time. Groups that seldom waste an opportunity to denounce violence where non-Muslims cause Muslim suffering, have lost their voice. Apparently, if Muslims kill fellow Muslims, that is OK.
Compare this silence with the brouhaha over the July 1 stabbing in Germany of a single hijabi Egyptian. It triggered demonstrations. The executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress denounced the media for their supposed silence. He said if the woman's killer had been a Muslim, "The media would've reported it widely. Then for days afterwards, they would deliberate the case and conclude that Muslims are 'brutal and uncivilized.' But when a racist European murders an innocent woman, the silence is deafening." Read more ...
It is almost two weeks since jihadi Islamists carried out a terrorist attack in Indonesia, causing many casualties, including injuries to two Canadians. The dust had barely settled when on Sunday, other jihadis, half a world away, struck with a vengeance and barbarity that shocked the world. This time, their playground was the Muslim-dominated parts of northern Nigeria. More than 100 people have been killed, and the fighting is said to be continuing.
One would expect Canadian and U.S. Islamist groups to come out with the usual denunciations but, surprisingly, even cliched condemnations failed to materialize. In the past, Islamist groups like CAIR, the CIC and ISNA have issued statements about "Islam being a religion of peace" and that "terrorists do not speak for Islam," but not this time. Groups that seldom waste an opportunity to denounce violence where non-Muslims cause Muslim suffering, have lost their voice. Apparently, if Muslims kill fellow Muslims, that is OK.
Compare this silence with the brouhaha over the July 1 stabbing in Germany of a single hijabi Egyptian. It triggered demonstrations. The executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress denounced the media for their supposed silence. He said if the woman's killer had been a Muslim, "The media would've reported it widely. Then for days afterwards, they would deliberate the case and conclude that Muslims are 'brutal and uncivilized.' But when a racist European murders an innocent woman, the silence is deafening." Read more ...
Source: The Calgary Herald
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