President Barack Obama delivered a call
to the peaceful Muslim world to be more forceful in countering the
violent extremism of the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
“It is time for the world –
especially Muslim communities – to
explicitly, forcefully, and consistently reject the ideology of Al Qaeda
and ISIL,”. “It is the task of all great religions to accommodate devout
faith with a modern, multicultural world.
No children – anywhere –
should be educated to hate other people.”
“There should be no
more tolerance of so-called clerics who call upon
people to harm innocents because they are Jewish, Christian or Muslim,”
Obama said. “It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of
this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source,
the
corruption of young minds by violent ideology.”
“That means cutting off the
funding that fuels this hate. It’s time to
end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global
economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it
down,” Obama said. “That means contesting the space that terrorists
occupy – including the Internet and social media. Their propaganda has
coerced young people to travel abroad to fight their wars, and turned
students into suicide bombers. We must offer an alternative vision.”
Obama said people of different faiths should come together to
speak out against this worldview.
He stressed that there is no way to negotiate with the Islamic State,
murders innocent children,
rapes women and young girls, starves religious minorities to death and
beheads hostages on camera.
“
No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions.
There can be no reasoning – no negotiation – with this
brand of evil.
The only language understood by killers like this is the language of
force,” Obama said.
This is rather a warning to many oil rich nations that support terrorism.
Just a thought.
