English Speech Peace Day

English Speech

“Terrorist” (pause). What images are conjured in your head? Do you see men covering their faces, with guns slung down their back? Do you see bombs going off behind men wearing turbans and people crying in the distance? Do you see bearded-men huddling over a suicide bomb, ready to bring down a building in a war-ridden country somewhere a few miles away? More importantly, do you see Muslims?

Although we have gathered here to commemorate “Peace Day”, we have yet to accept that the world has been turmoiled by a very misleading, and quite surprisingly, growing misconception. The world has been broken down into many religions, like crescents of a moon, that look better when together, united and side by side. But one specific crescent has faced increasing pressure and discrimination due to recent events. These aggravations and misconceptions have come into

Furthermore, ISIS is slaughtering muslims on a daily basis, and over the past 5 years, over 90 percent of the victims have been muslims. Having established how the ISIS are not only a group ordering mass murder of other religions, but also a group targeting muslims, I would like to add on the fact that the ISIS killed a professor who openly expressed his disgrace against the fact that the ISIS having persecuted Christians. CAIR, a muslim-american group has said “American Muslims view the actions of ISIS as un-Islamic and morally repugnant. No religion condones the murder of civilians, the beheading of religious scholars or the desecration of houses of