SPIRIT OF ISLAM JULY 2O18

20 Spirit of Islam Issue 67 July 2018 This is what it means to be Muslim. In Islam, we live by the five pillars. The first one, is that there is one God. The second one; the commitment to prayer, the third one, fasting in Ramadan, the fourth one, charity and giving back and the pilgrimage to Mecca, which you must do at least once in your lifetime In this picture, the small dots are actually people. They are all Muslim. They are there worshipping God. This is what Islam is actually about. Coming together as one. In Islam, even a smile is charity. But what is happening today. These are some negative headlines that come up online, and this is the latest one that came up this week. I want you to know that these headlines are actually false. None of them are actually true. And this upsets us because the people behind them are usually ISIS. If you don’t know who ISIS is, it’s a terrorist organization, that cause nothing but harm and terror to the world, just like what happened in France. 129 lives were lost. But ISIS have one goal. They want countries like ours to reject Muslims. They’ll be happy and ecstatic to hear, that since the events that took place in Paris, France, Muslims have already been threatened and attacked in the UK, America, Australia and all around the world. This evil organization have in their minds—if they can get Muslims [to appear as] the enemy of the West, then Muslims in France, the UK, America and Australia will have nowhere to turn but to ISIS. So if you are someone with a Facebook account, a Twitter account, an Instagram account, or any form of social media, which I’m sure everyone here has, and you are throwing out masses of hate, you are helping ISIS. You are supporting ISIS. This is what they want. So think about it—do you want to be the person helping a terrorist organization? People think ISIS only kills non-Muslims. But they don’t. They also kill Muslims. Most of ISIS’s victims are Muslims, like what’s happening in Syria right now. People link us to terrorism, but we are not terrorists. They have hijacked our religion and used it against us.