{"id":15296,"date":"2015-11-15T00:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2015-11-15T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T10:26:28","slug":"2806-do-not-blame-the-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=15296","title":{"rendered":"[2806] Do not blame the innocent refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was back in 2011 in Paris. I was there at the height of the Arab Spring and also interestingly, during the emergence of French far-right parties in mainstream politics.<\/p>\n

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I do not have much or anything new to say. It is late here in Kuala Lumpur, six or seven hours ahead of Paris. Yet, I still want to\u00a0express my opinion that we should not discriminate or blame the innocent refugees\u00a0for the horrible acts committed today in Paris by a group of Islamist terrorists.<\/p>\n

I am angry at the attack and I am sure a lot of others do, especially in Paris. The senseless killing is outrageous whatever the excuse. But I am also angry at the mistrust the attack is creating everywhere.<\/p>\n

I am disgusted reading\u00a0responses from right-wingers who somehow think\u00a0the refugees from Syria and elsewhere from the Arab world as causing\u00a0of the Paris attack. The right-wing\u00a0xenophobic policy recommendation is to stop\u00a0the refugees from\u00a0coming in.<\/p>\n

But as many\u00a0have highlighted, these refugees are running away from the same barbaric Islamic State\u00a0which attacked the civilians in Paris today.\u00a0These refugees are civilians too and they are as much a victim as Parisians.<\/p>\n

The right way is to direct the anger towards\u00a0the Islamic State, and not at the innocents who just happen to share, nominally if I might add, the same religion at the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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