Australian imams in the "nothing-to-do-with-Islam" brigade.
Meanwhile, the Grand Mufti of Australia, Dr. Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, in his comments about the Paris attack named the "causative factors" of terrorism. In the mufti's mind, "racism, Islamophobia, curtailing freedoms through securitisation [sic], duplicitous foreign policies and military interventions" are what causes terrorism. Each of these "factors" speaks to the victimization narrative.
As a blogger writes in the Australian Herald Sun, "The statement is a disgrace. Worse, it is dangerous and ominous … According to the Mufti and his imams, the main "causative factors" behind the kind of terrorism visited on Paris … have nothing to do even with interpretations of the Koran."In fact, even the Islamic State - which claimed credit for the mass-murder - is not mentioned as a "causative factor" … No mention even of the Muslim countries, like Iran and Saudi Arabia, which sponsor extremists and terrorists.
There is only that familiar and lethal victimology - an accusation that the horrors unleashed in Paris and elsewhere are driven by the cruelty the West inflicts on Muslims."While the West has certainly made mistakes (which should be acknowledged), Western leaders need to call out this false narrative, expose its falsity and regain the trust of their Muslim citizens.
