The emphatic challenge from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is that not even one passage from the Quran or even one account in the life of the Prophet inculcated hatred or violence against non-believers.

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“We share the same values”, he said of France and Australia.

But my generation is also the most open-minded. “They don’t know the reality of their religion”. They are all actively engaged in an ideological battle that has deep roots in history as well as theology.

If we take a long-term view on “success” and seek to minimize the recruiting pool for ISIS and to prevent future attacks, we can not exclusively focus on military responses without a focus on justice as well. That has been its method since its founding, more than a decade ago. Sure this is violent, extremism producing heinous acts as both President Barack Obama and Secretary John Kerry have said.

Sanaç, who was born in Turkey, told Die Presse that he was grateful to live in Austria as he felt there was a general sense of solidarity with Muslims, from the government, church andother religious communities. “And if you can’t admit that, you’re not really a good Muslim either”.

The Wahhabi ideology spread outside the Arabian Peninsula after the fall of the Ottoman, creeping into many European and American countries. Take Kashmir, for instance. But the Pakistani jihadist zealots installed their Wahhabi agenda there, misquoting the so-called militant Quranic verses and calling on Muslims to murder, maim and defeat the infidels.

This wasn’t a Muslim terrorist attack, this was an attack by evil men who wanted to harm others. It was jihadist extremists who were the attackers, not ordinary Muslims.

One twitter follower who must not have been watching the news actually rebuked me for assuming the Paris attacks were related to Islam. Muslims set an example centuries ago by sheltering the Jews when Spain threw them out. “Islam is working with other faiths to build unity and to build us up”, he said.

Exactly how many Muslims have been killed by the Islamic State group is hard to pin down, but it was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1,131 civilians in Syria between January and July of this year, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights and IRIN News. World leaders have condemned the massacre and sent messages of support. The fact that more and more young European Muslims are becoming radical jihadists demonstrates that Islam is a diverse religion – this is happening, and Muslims can not ignore it. Will they again restrict themselves to verbal outrage against the ISIS, followed by random bombing of a few sites? It’s a knee-jerk reaction born out of ignorance or disregard for a real solution.

Third, America should accept refugees of all faiths, but only after there is a comprehensive plan to vet them and prevent terrorists from using the refugee program to infiltrate America, which they will try to do. Many Islamic scholars and other Muslims lay blame for ISIS at the feet of the rulers of Saudi Arabia, who adhere to a Puritanical version of Islam called Salafism by its adherents and Wahhabism by its critics. Terrorism will not end merely with our denouncement. Instead, you have large and empty and ungovernable spaces; sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shia empowering transnational actors willing and able to fill the vacuum. Malala draws strength from her faith to do awe-inspiring work for educating girls and also to stand up to the extremists who skew her religion to justify not educating women. “Alienation from the dominant culture, thanks partly to joblessness and discrimination in blighted neighborhoods; a turn to petty crime, which leads to prison, and then more crime and more prison; religious awakening and radicalisation; and an initiatory journey to a Muslim country like Syria, Afghanistan or Yemen to train for jihad“.

Clearly, the war on terror has miserably failed to combat a risky radical ideology of religio-fascism, xenophobia, intolerance and exclusivism – something that lures the gullible into mindless violence. “Does it matter? I’m sorry, but radical Islam is becoming the rule, not the exception”. The emphatic challenge from my group the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is that not even one passage from the Quran or even one account in the life of the Prophet inculcated hatred or violence against non-believers.