Mr. Elmasry said there are bad Muslims just as there are bad Christians and Jews. "We

treat them as such and so should you. But Islam is a religion of peace. Muslims have a

religious duty to be tolerant of other faiths and other ideologies.''

Mr. Elmasry said journalists need to differentiate between the peaceful teachings of Islam

and the claims of some Muslim extremists that their actions are justified by their

He likened the situation of Canadian Muslims today to that of Canadian Jews 50 years

ago. "Jewish children were being (wrongly) called Christ-killers just as Muslim children

In their letter to the editor in the April 27 issue of the College Hill Independent, Jumana

Musa and Shadi Nahvi made some excellent points. They rightly asserted that the Western

press tends to portray Arabs and Muslims according to stereotypes and these myths persist

partly due to Western popular ignorance about Arabs and Muslims.

Since the Muslims students at Brown condemned the bombing of a Tel Aviv bus last year,

I am learning to separate the handful of Muslim and Arab extremists who commit terrorist

from the center. Figuratively, it indicates a similar remoteness in religion and thought, as

A reaction might take place as a result of US government's hitting Muslim civilians and

pray in the mosques a mark of radicalism? Is traditional Muslim dress an outward sign of

miles away, when it would not be possible for those bombs to hit military troops only. The

France, European Countries. They were fighting on this land and fighting with the Indians.

what it stands for. Extremism of course means taking an intolerant stand at one limit or

not for a religious motive, is not extremism. Extremism in Islam, or in religion, is when

From one side they think that they have to reform it; it is a duty on them, they have been

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