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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
This didnt make many right wing sites, so I will share for those people who are whinging about muslims not standing up against the radicals...
REUTERS - More than 1,000 Muslims formed a human shield around Oslo's synagogue on Saturday, offering symbolic protection for the city's Jewish community and condemning an attack on a synagogue in neighboring Denmark last weekend.
Chanting "No to anti-Semitism, no to Islamophobia," Norway's Muslims formed what they called a ring of peace a week after Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, a Danish-born son of Palestinian immigrants, killed two people at a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen last weekend.
"Humanity is one and we are here to demonstrate that," Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the protest's organizers told a crowd of Muslim immigrants and ethnic Norwegians who filled the small street around Oslo's only functioning synagogue.
"There are many more peace mongers than warmongers," Abdullah said as organizers and Jewish community leaders stood side by side. "There's still hope for humanity, for peace and love, across religious differences and backgrounds."
Norway's Jewish community is one of Europe's smallest, numbering around 1000, and the Muslim population, which has been growing steadily through immigration, is 150,000 to 200,000. Norway has a population of about 5.2 million.
The debate over immigration in the country came to the forefront in 2011 when Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and accused the government and the then-ruling Labour party of facilitating Muslim immigration and adulterating pure Norwegian blood.
Support for immigration has been rising steadily since those attacks, however, and an opinion poll late last year found that 77 percent of people thought immigrants made an important contribution to Norwegian society.
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/...-news/1.643521 |
Yes, Muslims worldwide
are starting to protest against terrorism, Antisemitism, and even in support of free speech, and this is truly welcoming news, but to be fair, I think that any calls on here for moderate Muslims to 'stand up and be counted' against the terrorists bastards slaughtering other humans in the name of their prophet, their God, and their religion, were referring more to British Muslims.
I believe the 'rationale' is that with over 3 million Muslims in the UK, the protests against IS have been proportionally tiny, or individual, and irregular, whereas concerted rallies en-masse (poll tax style) would be more news-worthy and have far more impact. There has not been - to my knowledge anyway - any such organised protests in the UK.
No one on here believes that the great majority of ordinary Muslims have terrorist sympathies, but in the same vein, only apologists or the self-deluded would deny that
some terrorist sympathisers, and even activists, are secreted within our Muslim communities.
Further; this issue is beyond individual politics, or personal belief - or should be - it is all about 'Man's Inhumanity To Man' and a plague which is threatening the entire world. We all react differently to the daily atrocities perpetrated by these terrorists, and those of us who are most vociferous in our condemnation of it are no more Islamaphobic and xenophobic or racist, than those whose condemnation is more feeble, muted, or non forthcoming, are terrorist apologists, and yet, our attacks on Islamic terrorists are repeatedly misconstrued on here as attacks on
all Muslims, when this is simply not true.