Muslim Attorney Shuts Down White Supremacist Troll on Twitter
Muslim Attorney Roasts Troll Who Says There's No 'Christian Version' Of ISIS
By Mark PygasUpdated Nov. 4 2018, 2:58 p.m. ET
Qasim Rashid, Esq. is an author and attorney who acts as a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Prince AlWaleed bin Talal School of Islamic Studies. He's also the national spokesperson for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, which was the first American-Muslim organization when it was founded in 1921.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community promotes secularism and categorically rejects terrorism in any form, working with American-Muslims to instead spread a message of peace and cooperation.
Rashid recently received a message on Twitter from someone he described as a "white supremacist." In the message, the sender claims that there is no "Christian version of ISIS." A claim which Rashid quickly pulled apart...
A white supremacist DM'd me claiming Islam is violent & taunted me to show "where's the Christian version of Isis?"
This was my response. pic.twitter.com/YgvbrTjzCi
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017Here's Rashid's response in full...
Rashid's tweet sharing the exchange has acquired more than 9,000 likes since it was posted early this morning. He followed up the initial post with a few others:
"I know I missed several atrocities like IRA terrorism, Srebrenica genocide, Central America imperialism, but I hope you all got the main pt," he wrote. "That point is: Terrorism - Has - No - Religion. As a Muslim I know those atrocities done by Christians are the anti-thesis of Christ. I know this how? [Because] I've studied Christianity from Christian sources & from Christian scholars. Not google, not wiki, not hate websites."
And as you can imagine, the reactions were mixed, but seem to be more positive than negative.
@MuriQ2001 That struggle is a true jihad
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017@thekleptocracy He claimed racism doesn't exist and no one has died from racism since WW2. smh facepalm.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017@MicheleMT55 Education increases by sharing. By all means do so.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017@JuliaChase1969 I agree it is a fairy tale to believe the universe magically self created. But I don't mock people who believe that. To each their own.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017@JuliaChase1969 I grew up in Illinois. I can't stay mad <3
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017@tracieh88 Well it's less a question of religion and more a question of human beings just doing evil things, sometimes by any means necessary
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) April 3, 2017Violence isn't exactly new. After all, humans have been doing terrible things long before Islam or Christianity were founded. Unfortunately, religion just gave people the means and excuse to carry on doing so.
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