Dutch Muslims united in the CMO (Contact Organization for Muslims and the Government) have firmly condemned the Paris attacks. In a declaration the CMO mentioned the attacks as “barbaric, cowardly, inhuman terrorist attacks against the French society and in fact against the whole of humanity.” The Dutch Muslim community is intensely sad and feels connected…
In the early phases of the war in Syria, ISIS did not appear as a major threat to the West. Jihadists made their way to Syria to fight the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad with little interest to carry out attacks in their respective countries. The November 13 attacks in Paris reveal a shift…
A coalition of eight leading U.S. Muslim organizations held a Saturday press conference in Washington D.C. to denounce the horrific Paris terrorist attacks that killed over 120 people. The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) released a press statement on Saturday condemning the acts of terror. The statement read: “The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO),…
“We condemn this horror. This act is horrible, cowardly, unspeakable, heinous… It is difficult to find the words in such circumstances,” said Amine Nedji. The President of the Regional Council of the Muslim Faith of Lorraine added: “We are victims, as are all Frenchmen, of an act of terrorism which follows no logic.” Nejdi denounced…
“They were young or middle-aged, students, intellectuals or managers, journalists or humanitarians, workers or musicians, they all left us beneath Daesh’s bullets and bombs. They were the images of France, in their love of live, in their diversity, in their art of living. They left inconsolable parents, broken spouses, lonely children and a bruised nation….
