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| British Muslim Group Takes on IS Jihadists on Twitter |
| 2014-09-24 |
| [AnNahar] As international military action builds up against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... , a British Moslem association is taking on the jihadists through Twitter with the campaign #notinmyname. The push by the Active Change Foundation includes a video of young people and its director, Hanif Qadir, speaking out against extremism and holding up placards with the hashtag. "Young Moslems are adding their voices to the fight-back against ISIS," the association said on its website, using a name for the Islamic State group that is widely used in Britannia. "Let your voice be heard rejecting the ideology of hate," it said, accusing the group of "hiding behind a false Islam". The video, which has been shared more than 83,000 times on YouTube, begins with a young woman in a colorful headscarf saying: "ISIS do not represent Islam or any Moslem." It follows with responses from a variety of young people including one man in a suit and tie saying, "Because what you're doing is inhumane," and another man in a T-shirt and a jacket saying, "Because they're killing innocent people." "Because you have no compassion," Qadir himself says. The campaign is one of several that have cropped up on Twitter against Islamic State, including one with the hashtag #BurnISISFlagChallenge -- a take on the popular Ice Bucket Challenge featuring the IS group's black flag being set alight. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 They are called Ahmaddis in english, JFM. They have been declared in Pakistan and elsewhere legally not Muslim. After which the persecutions began. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-24 17:12 |
| #5 What kind of Msulims? In the UK there is a quite of Ahmedistas (I think that is their name. Theya accept Muhammad as a prophet but their supreme Prophet is XIXth century Pakistanese. That is of course an abomination for real Muslsims since it is suposed there wil be no prophet after Muhammad (and prophets eraler than him had had their teachings rewritten so they match Muhammad's) and the teaching of Ahmedists's prophet directly chanlengge Muhammad's. AFAIK Ahmedism could be considered a religion of peace. Only problem is all Muslims but them don't consider Muslims and their religion has, AFAIK, little in common with what is mandated in the Kuran. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-09-24 10:26 |
| #4 So this proves that Islam is a religion of peace, right? |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-09-24 09:43 |
| #3 Oooooh, Ooooh, hashtag war!! The State Dept. should join in any minute now. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-24 07:18 |
| #2 if these moslems are Shia, they have good reason to fear ISIS and also to believe that ISIS is not their religion; of course this is just twitter, real opposition would mean preaching anti ISIS sermons at the mosque or even volunteering to fight for the Kurds or the Iraqis |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-09-24 06:52 |
| #1 Taquia, taquia. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-09-24 00:56 |