France: Only 30 Muslims show up for rally against attacks

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France: Only 30 Muslims show up for rally against Paris jihad attacks



This is typical. Despite the tens of thousands of deadly Islamic attacks since 9/11, never has there been a rally or movement against jihad that ever garnered more than a handful of Muslims. I remember heading down to DC in 2005 for a “major Muslims rally against terror” and no one showed up.



Instead we have come to expect wails of “fear of reprisals” and bogus “Islamophobia”claims after every Islamic jihad terror attack. Conversely, according to the FBI “hate crimes” against Muslims has decreased. And while Muslims in the US condemn the Islamic State, where are they teaching against the ideology that gave rise to it?



Right now, nothing is being done to stop jihad recruiting in US mosques, even as several hundred young Muslims from the US have gone to wage jihad for the Islamic State.



“France: Only 30 Muslims show up for rally against Paris jihad attacks,” By Robert Spencer, November 18, 2015



That’s thirty Muslims out of around five million Muslims in France. This is not the first time that attendance at a Muslim rally against terrorism has been decidedly underwhelming. In July 2015, a Muslim rally in Ireland against the Islamic State drew fifty people. In October 2014 in Houston, a rally against the Islamic State organized by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew the grand total of ten people. In August 2013 in Boston, about 25 Muslims rallied against “misperceptions” that Islam was violent. About the same number showed up in June 2013 at a progressive Muslim rally in Toronto to claim that their religion had been “hijacked.”



And back in 2005, a group called the Free Muslims Coalition held what it dubbed a “Free Muslims March Against Terror,” intending to “send a message to the terrorists and extremists that their days are numbered … and to send a message to the people of the Middle East, the Muslim world and all people who seek freedom, democracy and peaceful coexistence that we support them.” In the run-up to the event it got enthusiastic national and international publicity, but it ended up drawing about twenty-five people.



Contrast those paltry showings to the thousands of Muslims who have turned out for rallies against cartoons of Muhammad or against Israel. Here are some headlines from the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre of Muhammad cartoonists in January 2015:



Chechnya: 800,000 Muslims protest Muhammad cartoons; protests also in Iran, Pakistan, Ingushetia, elsewhere



Pakistan: 10,000 Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo’s Muhammad cartoons



Australia: 1,000 Muslims rally against Charlie Hebdo and the freedom of speech



Kyrgyztsan: 1,000 Muslims rally: “I am not Charlie, I love my Prophet.”



But given a chance to show how Muslims overwhelmingly reject “extremism,” only a handful show up. Also, read their sign. “Revolution for world of humanity is the only solution,” says Imam Hayat. What kind of revolution?

Muslims against terror Dan Sanderson



Muslims against terror

Dan Sanderson



“We need to wage a jihad against the jihad’: French Muslims join mourners to condemn Paris attacks… But are they too late?,” by Jake Wallis Simons, Mailonline, November 17, 2015:



As crowds continued to gather at the Place de la République last night, laying flowers and lighting candles in memory of the dead, a group French Muslims held up banners and started to chant.



‘Unite against brutality, unite for humanity!’ They shouted. ‘Killing any human is killing all mankind! Saving any human is saving all mankind!’



Around 30 Muslims, all of Bangladeshi origin and living in Paris, felt they had to take a stand against Islamic extremism because – as they saw it – few other Muslims were willing to raise their voices.



‘Muslims are not being loud enough,’ Mohammad Hassan, 35, told MailOnline, ‘This needed to be done because some Muslims are afraid of coming out to say the truth.



‘About five percent of Muslims support the terrorists. The rest of them need to speak out. I wish more Muslims would join us here.



‘We swear we will fight against these monsters. Decent Muslims must stand up to them before it is too late.’



Last night, Khalil Merroun, the rector of the Islamic Centre in Courcouronnes where Oman Mostefai, one of the suicide bombers, is thought to have attended, struck a similar note.



‘We need to wage a jihad against the jihad,’ he told MailOnline. ‘These kids want to change the world rather than themselves. We have to show the true face of Islam.’…



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