The Deacon's Bench
The television host wrote in the U.K.’s Daily Mail:
As the non-Muslim world rages and weeps, the vast majority of Muslims appear content to keep their heads down and say nothing. Either out of genuine fear, or, if one was being less generous, out of tacit support for what ISIS stand for.
It has been the same after every single ISIS rampage, from the Charlie Hebdo slaughter to the Tunisia beach massacre and recent downing of a Russian passenger plane.
And I’m sorry but it’s just not acceptable any more.
I’m a Catholic and if a load of other Catholics suddenly started beheading and shooting people in the name of my religion in this modern age, falsely claiming papal authority to do so, I would stand up and denounce them from any rooftops I could find.
As would, I am sure, millions of other Catholics.
There would be shared revulsion at the way our religion was being hijacked to justify mass murder.
Only when the wider Muslim population turns on ISIS properly in their own communities, renounces everything they stand for, and roots them out, will they be finished off.
Worth noting: some high profile Muslims are already condemning these attacks, and a social media campaign has been launched by Muslims to disassociate themselves from ISIS.
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