What happening all around the world! Control DAESH!
Why ISIL Detests Being Called “Daesh”
That Daesh attacks on Kabul, London and Tehran in Ramadan raises the big question of what is happening all around the world and why not a unified world union to stop DAESH?
It is sad to say that Daesh has slayed mostly Muslims in the past week.
I was in London chatting with some friends after iftar on the night of Sunday June 4 when a terrorist attack on London Bridge claimed the lives of innocent people. People around me at the Aziziye Mosque, a Turkish mosque in northern London, were sad and sorry, exhausted about the fact that they would once again be called to convey to the rest of British society that Islam is a religion of peace and these terrorists and what they did had nothing to do with their religion.
One of terrorists was British. As the British media never tired of mentioning, one was a British citizen born in Pakistan, but lived in Barking. He had an arranged marriage, prayed somewhere or other, once asked someone to convert to Islam and talked about his intention to travel to Syria to fight for Daesh. One friend said that he was radicalized after watching videos on YouTube.
Once at the hotel, round-the-clock news channels were trying to understand how such an attack could happen here, but all, Skynews, BBC news and others, kept asking the wrong questions: What do these Islamists want from our society? And how can we reach the ordinary Muslim man to prevent his radicalization? They still seem oblivious to the fact that Islam has nothing to do with what is happening.
While I was writing, some terrorists attacked Iran’s parliament building and a shrine devoted to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, killing at least 12 people. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attacks, a first since its inception in Syria and Iraq. You will know more about the details by the time you read this article, but some commentary is easy to predict.
Daesh’s attack in Kabul last week in the first week of Ramadan killed at least 90 people and injured 400 more. All these attacks took place during Ramadan, a month of contemplation and fasting, when Muslims are forbidden to engage in violent behavior. This in itself is enough to demonstrate how far from Islam Daesh truly is.
As British media organizations, through their in-depth analyses, compete with each other to furtively portray all practicing Muslims with dark skin as potential terrorists, they fail to pay attention to the fact that an overwhelming portion of Daesh victims are Muslims as well.
Daily Sabah
