"ISIS has nothing to do with Islam".

[psyah]

Re: “ISIS has nothing to do with Islam”.

@queer

There is a big difference between “nothing to do with” and “not representative of majority” or “radicalized/perverted version of”.

By saying the former, you come across as disingenuous and defensive, all the more so to those who know just the bullet-point version of islam - hijabs and beards, shariah, caliphate etc etc. These all pretty much line up with what is seen about ISIS.

The other thing is, everytime something cruel is done by ISIS or other terrorists, a bunch of muslims all go - no muslim could have done that. Again, comes across all wrong - everything from sounding morally superior to non muslims, to denial of the fact that Islam is (ab)used to do atrocities in its name.

One thing is for sure - there is a serious lack of intelligent PR for muslims at pretty much every level. The political leaders are spineless and corrupt, or too religious to be useful in any practical way.

There is some sense in that post queer … You know we are saying it true … There really is nothing like ISIS in Islam … Are we being defensive? Well we could well be or we are not … The issue is our denial of association with them should be a strong sign that we are denouncing them … Yet we are also blamed for not denouncing them … If you want us to denounce then let us say ISIS are nothing to do with us or Islam … Because as much as we hate their ideology we love Islam … But it seems others want us to denounce Islam because of ISIS.