"This is not Islam. The ideology of terrorists is hate."

Muslims around the world are fighting back against the perception that Islam is the cause of the Paris attacks.

Once again the #Notinmyname hashtag has popped up on social media as Muslims distance themselves from the horrific attacks on Friday 13 November that have so far claimed 132 people.

You kill innocent people in #Beirut #Syria #Iraq and #Paris. That is not Islam. pic.twitter.com/SrDQwavN0K

— ACTIVE CHANGE FND (@Active_Change_F) November 14, 2015

The campaign began in 2014, after the death of two British aid workers in Syria. It was launched by London’s Active Change Foundation, which uses social media to fight the spread of radicalisation.

No religion tolerates such behaviour. I hate how Media and Terrorists make us look bad. #NotInMyName pic.twitter.com/QRpPoOH3ld — Sara (@saraxbu) November 15, 2015

This is not Islam and these attackers do not follow the beliefs of any religion. The ideology of terrorists is hate. #paris #notinmyname

— Suhail Mohammed (@shadowwraiths) November 14, 2015

Another hashtag #MuslimsAreNotTerrorist has also been popular on Twitter.

Sad reflection that we even need a #MuslimsAreNotTerorist hashtag. — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) November 14, 2015

The Hashtag #MuslimsAreNotTerorist Should be #TerroristsAreNotMuslim You can’t be a Muslim and commit acts of violence against innocent ppl — Hisham Muhammad (@cirujanodelalma) November 15, 2015

In the wake of the attack there is fear and anger in the Muslim community.

Australian singer Darren Hanlon has posted on Facebook his own exchange with a Sydney Uber driver that brings home what many Muslims are feeling.

Hanlon wrote that the driver brought up the Paris attacks, describing them as “killing other people… in cold blood”.

“‘I’m a Muslim,’ he said almost as a confession, ‘and this is not what I was taught as a child’.”

“I just sat quietly and listened. It felt like he needed to talk. He said he was praying at a mosque in Zetland when he got my ride request. He’d been praying for most of the day,” Hanlon continued.

“These people say they act under the name of Islam,” he says the driver told him. “I’ve studied religion, theology. The etymology of the word Islam comes from a word that means Peace.”

“I didn’t wanna write this as some kind of statement. I just want to tell you about my brief random conversation with a sad Muslim Sydney Uber driver, who’s religion is being taken from him,” Hanlon said.