“I’m pretty sure that right now, none of us wants to help these bastards.”
In an impassioned plea on The Project, co-host Waleed Aly has called for cohesion, saying the community coming together (no matter how naff it sounds) is the only way to beat Islamic State in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
“They want to start World War III – a global war between Muslims and everyone else – that’s what they want to create. They want societies like France and here in Australia to turn on each other,” Aly said.
“They want countries like ours to reject their Muslims and vilify them.
“Because this evil organisation has it in their heads that if they can make Muslims the enemy of the West, then Muslims in France and England and America and here in Australia will have nowhere to turn but to ISIL.”
A strategy he labels “both dumbfounding in its stupidity and blood-curdling in its barbarity”.
Watch the full rant here:
The Muslim academic and popular media personality said ISIL regularly takes credit for the attacks of DIY terrorists to appear “bigger and tougher than they actually are”.
“We’re all feeling a million raging emotions right now,” he said.
“I am angry at these terrorists, I’m sickened by the violence, and I’m crushed for the families that have been left behind.
“But you know what? I won’t be manipulated. We all need to come together… because it’s exactly what ISIL doesn’t work.”
He said current and former MPs who preach hate, Muslim leaders and non-Muslims who tell the community they don’t belong here, and social media vigilantes who fire off hateful missives, all help ISIL.
“I’m pretty sure that right now, none of us wants to help these bastards,” he said.
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I send an email to the local islamic community to say i understand the situation and that isil is not islam.
This is the reply i got back.
what a fantastic email.... Honestly it brings tears to my eyes. Many Many Thanks. Can I publish your email without your name on facebook? Our community needs to hear voices like yours.
What fantastic people they are.
I urge everyone to do the same
Where can we send emails to repeat this message?
Congrats to Waleed Aly not denying that is was a 'Islamist terror attack' as mentioned at the start. So much of the current Islamic community are saying that this is not Islamic or from Islam. I agree that 99% of Muslims find the attack wrong and totally despicable. But there is a connection to Islam as Aly indicated and there is an element is the religion that some how permit this as a valid form as a belief system. Denying that this isn't a problem that any thing to do with Islam is ignorant and dangerous. A moderate more accepting form of Islam should be encouraged and supported not the Sharia Law that is often pushed from the extreme edges.
actually there is no connection with what happened in paris and islam. if you paid more attention to the whole incident they said that it was REVENGE for what happened in Iraq, not some religous crusade.