The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: EC on September 09, 2014, 12:08:21 pm
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PARIS (AP) — French Muslim leaders are calling on imams to use their pulpit to weigh against the Islamic State group and offer a message of support for Christians in the Middle East.
Christians there are fleeing the militant organization by the thousands as they face a choice between converting or death.
On Tuesday, moderate Muslim leaders called on French mosques nationwide to offer prayers for endangered Christians and send a message to young people that the Islamic State group is neither Muslim nor a state.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of Paris' principle mosque, said it was crucial to support Christians against barbarity: "We are all, no matter our religion, Christians of the Middle East."
French young people make up the largest number of European jihadis heading to fight in Syria and Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/french-imams-pulpit-against-islamic-state-113649148.html
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PARIS (AP) — French Muslim leaders are calling on imams to use their pulpit to weigh against the Islamic State group and offer a message of support for Christians in the Middle East.
Christians there are fleeing the militant organization by the thousands as they face a choice between converting or death.
On Tuesday, moderate Muslim leaders called on French mosques nationwide to offer prayers for endangered Christians and send a message to young people that the Islamic State group is neither Muslim nor a state.
Dalil Boubakeur, rector of Paris' principle mosque, said it was crucial to support Christians against barbarity: "We are all, no matter our religion, Christians of the Middle East."
French young people make up the largest number of European jihadis heading to fight in Syria and Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/french-imams-pulpit-against-islamic-state-113649148.html
Thanks for posting this EC. I had begun to think there were no moderate Muslims because I never hear from them. I hope they can be effective at this.
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Thanks for posting this EC. I had begun to think there were no moderate Muslims because I never hear from them. I hope they can be effective at this.
They exist. Most are. Problem is, they are not newsworthy.
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It's about time.