Yeo Bee Yin | In solidarity with the Muslims #VoyageAvecMoi
On Jan 7, 2015, the world was shocked by the shooting at Charlie Hedbo, of which 12 people were killed including the editor and cartoonists of the satirical weekly newspaper. Shortly after that, a Jewish supermarket was taken hostage. The Paris violence happened just less than a month after the Sydney attack. Both were done in the name of God.
While the fact that the terrorists in Paris were Muslims was widely publicised, the fact that one of the police officers who died during the Charlie Hebdo incident and the shopkeeper who saved a group of customers by hiding them in the fridge during the Jewish supermarket hostage drama were also Muslims received much less attention.
Islamophobia is on the rise. In Germany, The right wing Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida) led an anti-Islamic protest in Dresden that drew a record number of 25,000. With the experience of Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) and Perkasa at home, some non-Muslim Malaysians may equate Islam to violence, spoken or unspoken.
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