It's not their ideology, so why would you expect them to tackle it?
Because ISIS version of Islam is turning Muslims into terrorists.
Absolutely.
One of the signs in the march points out that most of ISIS's victims are Muslim. Consider the people directly killed by ISIS, and the people who've been killed or displaced from their homes because of ISIS and the war in Syria. And then consider that ISIS is luring young Muslims away from their homes to fight that war. They're not recruiting atheists and Jews to go die in Syria.
If somebody was trying to lure my imaginary kids away to participate in some ridiculous war where they'll surely die, I would be awfully upset about it. I'd be doing everything in my power to try and stop it. But it's not my imaginary kids that are getting recruited. It's the Muslim community's kids.
I mean, forget the inevitable anger directed towards Muslims in the wake of things like the incident in Edmonton. ISIS is stealing the most precious thing Muslims have-- their own kids. I think that would be the most powerful motivation imaginable for Muslims to confront ISIS.
-k
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