Muslims all over the world are fighting extremism, and if we really want to stop ISIS, we need to work with them, not against them.
This is not, of course, what Republicans think.
In the wake of the San Bernardino shooting, they’ve ramped up their usual fearmongering about Muslims and Islam, a religion practiced by 1.6 billion people with a rich 1,500 year history of scholarship, art, and culture.
“Moderate” Muslims, Republican say, just aren’t doing enough to fight radical groups like ISIS.
This argument is so flat-out wrong and inaccurate it wouldn’t be worth talking about if it weren’t echoed everyday on cable news by right-wing stooge after right-wing stooge.
The fact is that every day Muslims ARE fighting ISIS.
They’re fighting ISIS on the ground in Syria and Iraq, they’re fighting ISIS as members of our armed forces, and they’re fighting ISIS in their mosques and communities where they are doing their best to stop extremism before it starts.
Everyday Muslims hate ISIS more than anyone, and that’s not just because most of its victims are, you know, Muslim.
They hate ISIS more than anyone -- yes, even more than Ted “Bomb ‘Em All” Cruz -- because it’s perverting their religion and using it for evil.
For example, just check out what’s happening over in U.K. right now, where the hashtag #YouAintNoMuslimBruv is trending on Twitter.
The hashtags stems from something a bystander shouted during an incident on the London Underground over the weekend.
As police arrested an apparently Muslim man who stabbed a fellow Tube passenger while screaming “this is for Syria,” another passenger, also apparently Muslim, called him out in the best way possible.
He responded with "You Ain't No Muslim, Bruv."
