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| Britain |
| ‘UK needs to look inward for confronting extremism’ |
| 2017-06-13 |
| [DAWN] The first British Muslim minister, Shahid Malik said on Sunday that Pakistani origin of one of the terrorists involved in the recent London attacks had nothing to do with his evil act and urged the UK to look inward for tackling the challenge posed by extremism. Mr Malik warned against linking terrorism with religion: “In the case of Pakistan, the facts speak for themselves; very few countries have made the sacrifices and suffered the loss of lives that tragically Pakistan has experienced,” he said. “Pakistan’s fight against extremism and terrorism has led to a huge toll with thousands of Pakistanis citizens, armed forces, security personnel and police being martyred and paying the ultimate price.” He said it must be remembered that evil existed in all walks of life as Timothy McVeigh, who butchered 168 American citizens in Oklahoma, did not represent Christianity, in the same way that these vile creatures who killed innocent people in Manchester and London did not represent Islam. They both represent evil and evil had no religion. He said: “Today Muslims across the world must unite in sending a strong message not just by condemning extremism and terrorism but confronting it wherever it rears its evil head, whether that is in our homes, in our shops, our workplaces, our colleges or online.” Mr Malik said that Muslims were not responsible for the actions of these wicked individuals, adding Muslims had a responsibility to redouble their efforts not only to save innocent and precious human lives but rescue their religion from the clutches of “twisted individuals who follow a truly perverted interpretation of our beautiful faith, Islam”. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 That's the meme, cowboy. The facts are a bit different, and uncomfortable at the time. Still are, come to think of it. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-13 23:38 |
| #3 Timothy McVeigh, who butchered 168 American citizens in Oklahoma, did not represent Christianity... The idiot conveniently overlooks that McVeigh *never* claimed that Christianity *motivated* his work, and that McVeigh made various claims all over the religious spectrum, from being Catholic to being agnostic. I'm getting really tired of something that one deranged individual did in the '90s somehow being cast as equivalent to what goes on day after day after day by Islamists. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-06-13 18:10 |
| #2 McVeigh had 'non-Christian' support, but that's been somehow forgotten. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-13 16:42 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-13 13:00 |