Each time the Islamic sect, ISIS or Boko Haram, killed Christians in the name of serving and obeying Allah, millions of Muslims around the world will stand up to say the same thing they've been saying from day one, "these Islamic extremists are not speaking for Islam!" I wonder what type of Quran both sides are reading because these Islamic sects always quote a portion of the Quran to justify each atrocities and then ascribe the glory of their sins to Allah. *lips sealed*
Please let me introduce you to this young American Muslim activist, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy. He's one of the Muslim Reformists left in the country. I want you to hear him speak against Radical Islamic Movements, Islamic State and US National Security!
He said and I quote, "As an American, I am at war with anyone who swears allegiance to Islamic State. They are at war with us and with our way of life and...
we must be at war with them until they are permanently destroyed," said Jasser, author of A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith, to The Christian Post this week.
Jasser, who is a medical doctor and also served in the U.S. Navy, has been campaigning against radical Islam since the early 2000s after the 9/11 attacks on the United States. He says that the emergence of Islamic State has been a wake up call for many Americans and believes Muslim reformists are the greatest asset in the battle for freedom and national security in the United States.
He says that all Muslims have a responsibility to reject governments and ideas that support radical Islamism as well as the groups that align with those values including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. All Americans need to be aware and understand that their influence reaches the United States, he warned.
"As long as we do not have a filter against the ideology of Islamism for those within or advising government, Muslim Brotherhood allies and operatives will continue to dominate American policy makers. They are backed by a long history of organized Islam in America and their benefactors around the world," Jasser stressed.
He also noted that persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East didn't begin with the Islamic State, but IS has magnified the violence against minorities for the world to see. The population of Christians dwindling in nations like Iraq occurred long before the evolution of IS, he pointed out.
"It's (persecution of religious minorities) engrained in the supremacist Islamism of Iranian Khomeinists, Saudi Wahhabis and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood," Jasser explains. "Islamic State makes it clear that its goal is to cleanse Syria and Iraq of Christians. Its ideology is a natural by-product of Wahhabism from Saudi Arabia. In the kingdom, Christians are not allowed to build churches, worship in public or carry Bibles. What Islamic State does openly, Saudi Arabia does covertly."
It's a pattern that can be seen throughout history with other minority groups such as the Jews who've been driven out of almost every Arab nation.
Besides Jasser, other Muslim groups have also spoken out against Islamic State and extremism, including the Muslim Council of Britain and Muslim communities in Germany, France and Indonesia. And organizations like U.K.-based Quilliam Foundation, which recently launched a new counter-terrorism video as part of its #NotAnotherBrother campaign on social media this week.


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