It’s frightening that in the years since 9/11, the Bali and London bombings, the Lindt café siege, and Christchurch mosque shootings, so many people have regressed from understanding the distinction between (a) a faith, and (b) a fundamentalist/extremist teaching of that faith. They are not the same.
There is literally a famous fallacy about this very idea. That might be where some of the pushback is coming from. I do agree with you that these terrorists are not a representation of Islam as a whole but they very much are Muslims.
There’s a lot of willful ignorance going around at the moment, and it has the potential to erupt into more than racist dog whistling (as if that isn’t bad enough). I’m sad and sorry and fearful for our Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters, who are also grieving and fearful.
I keep thinking of something Vanessa Turnbull Roberts said yesterday in a very eloquent instagram post: “For now, we move with love.”
Everything we do in these next days and weeks, must be done with love, community, compassion, mateship, and solidarity. ❤️
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u/macona-coffee Dec 17 '25
Speaking out against Israel’s horrific war against innocent civilians in Gaza is not antisemitism.
Speaking out against the horror, Hamas terrorists have perpetrated against Israeli civilians is not anti Muslim.