Christian Reflection and Prayer

 

The second way that we can deny the terrorists their
victory:

 

Second, we must resist with all of our beings that
hateful, ugly, and violent reactions people who are
not responsible for these atrocities. In particular, we
must resist attacks of discrimination against
Muslims and hateful language against the religion of
Islam. We must avoid re-victimizing Muslims, who
are already suffering from Isis violence, in our
responses to terrorism. Instead, Christians and other
people of faith should reach out to our Muslim
brothers and sisters to build bridges of understanding,
love, and mutual respect. Then we must all work
together to undermine, disrupt and end this evil violence

DENOUNCING the POLITICS of HATE (part two)

 

Here are some ways that we can deny the terrorists
their victory:

 

FIRST, WE MUST focus on life and the terrible human
suffering that these attacks are causing all over the world.
When you add up all of those killed, maimed, wounded,
and traumatize--and all their family members, friends,
fellow congregants, and co-workers--the number of human
beings impacted by terrorist violence is almost countless.
We must also include the impact on all our children whose
fears these attacks kindall, and the fears we in turn feel for
them.

 

While the terrorists focus on provoking a political reaction,
we must pray, remember, and focus our minds and hearts
on the human lives that have been ended or forever changed.
It's especially important in these times to remember our
Muslim brothers and sisters all over the world, who are
killed in much higher numbers than non--Muslims by Isis
and their I LK

 

 

(in my humble opinion this is a must read article)

 

(The following is an article written by Jim Wallis of
Sojourners, because of the length of the article it
will be divided up in parts.)

 

What Isis and other terror groups who share their
views want is precisely to terrorize us. They want
to turn our fear of them into fear of everyone who
looks like them, and everyone who follows the
religion they are trying to hijack. They want us to
suspect, fear, and hate the 1.6 billion people of the
world who practice Islam--including millions of
Muslim Americans. They want to provoke us to
anger, and they hope, that in our anger and pain
we will overreact.

 

Right now, unfortunately, they are succeeding with
too many of our fellow Christians, and even with
some of the candidates for our highest political
offices.

 

When ISIS terorrists succeed in provoking
Islamophobic responses, they come closer in their
goal of dividing the world into two categories--
Muslems and non-Muslems--which also brings them
closer to their goal of claiming the mantle of being
the only "true defenders" of Islam. Islamophobic best
directly helps the terrorists recruit more young
Muslems to their cause and makes it harder for other
Muslims to work against them. In the next part Mr.
Wallace discusses some ways that we can deny the
terrorists their victor.