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| UK attack spurs Muslim soul-searching |
| 2013-05-23 |
| Looks like "Dar al Islam" vs "Dar al Harb" is playing out nicely for the Muslims. Strapping his baby into a car seat, Abu Khaled said it was unfortunate that a British soldier was hacked to death in an apparent Islamist attack a day earlier in London, but it was not the only misfortune on his mind. “A 75-year-old man was stabbed to death earlier this month on his way back from the mosque in Birmingham. You didn't hear about that, did you?” said the bearded 36-year-old personal trainer, speaking near East London Mosque, one of the capital's oldest and largest. “Eleven children died in Afghanistan in a U.S. drone attack about the time of the Boston bombings. You didn't hear about that either, did you?” he said. The overwhelming reaction from Muslim communities to the brutal killing on Wednesday has been one of horror, compounded by fears of a backlash. “These men have insulted Allah (God) and dishonoured our faith ... There will no doubt be a lot of soul-searching about why these individuals do what they do,” Farooq Murad, head of the Muslim Council of Britain, said in a news conference. Abu Khaled said it was probably Western treatment of Muslim life as “collateral damage” in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that triggered Wednesday's crazed attack in Woolwich, southeast London. |
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