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Friday, August 28, 2015

Muslims must combat the extremist cancer

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The Wall Street Journal

Fethulah Gulen | Friday, August 28, 2015

Muslims must combat the extremist cancer

As the group that calls itself Islamic State, known as ISIS, continues to produce carnage in the Middle East, Muslims must confront the totalitarian ideology that animates it and other terrorist groups. Every terrorist act carried out in the name of Islam profoundly affects all Muslims, alienating them from fellow citizens and deepening the misperceptions about their faith’s ethos.

It isn’t fair to blame Islam for the atrocities of violent radicals. But when terrorists claim the Muslim mantle, then they bear this identity, if only nominally. Thus members of the faith must do whatever possible to prevent this cancer from metastasizing in our communities. If we don’t, we’ll be partly responsible for the smeared image of our faith.http://rumiforum.blogspot.com/2015/08/1fethullahgulens-op-ed-wsj-muslims-must.html#axzz3k7m4y4l1

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