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Don’t Make Refugees Pay for Terror They Flee
By Jérôme Roos
Source: teleSUR English
November 17, 2015
The truth is that the narratives and objectives of Europe’s xenophobic right and the religious extremists of ISIS feed on one another in a vicious cycle.
Every time there is a terror attack, there is an uptick in support for the anti-immigrant right; and wherever Europe’s xenophobes feel emboldened to attack or rail against Muslims, the jihadists present it as yet another justification and recruiting tool for their holy war against the infidels and crusaders.
The only thing that can break this vicious cycle is to step out of it: by refusing to give in to the fear, the binary narratives, the calls to close borders, to further abrogate civil liberties and militarize society.
Solidarity remains our single greatest weapon against terror. As the Arab Spring activist Iyad El-Baghdadi – who actively follows the chatter among hundreds of jihadist and Islamist accounts on Twitter – has noted, “Nothing pissed off Islamist extremists” more than “watching [Europe’s] very humane, moral response to the refugee crisis.”
Every time there is a terror attack, there is an uptick in support for the anti-immigrant right; and wherever Europe’s xenophobes feel emboldened to attack or rail against Muslims, the jihadists present it as yet another justification and recruiting tool for their holy war against the infidels and crusaders.
The only thing that can break this vicious cycle is to step out of it: by refusing to give in to the fear, the binary narratives, the calls to close borders, to further abrogate civil liberties and militarize society.
Solidarity remains our single greatest weapon against terror. As the Arab Spring activist Iyad El-Baghdadi – who actively follows the chatter among hundreds of jihadist and Islamist accounts on Twitter – has noted, “Nothing pissed off Islamist extremists” more than “watching [Europe’s] very humane, moral response to the refugee crisis.”
Full article: https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/dont-make-refugees-pay-for-terror-they-flee/