As I left my mosque in Philadelphia Friday afternoon my phone lit up with texts and tweets about attacks in Paris. Muslims have been conditioned on how to respond to these attacks. First, we feel pain for the loss of life. And most certainly my heart sank as I saw the horrific aftermath of the Paris attacks. Then, almost as quickly we hope the attackers aren't Muslim. We know that if the attackers are Muslim, we'll soon find ourselves lumped into one category with every Muslim who has ever done anything wrong. While everyone finds it preposterous to ask Christians to answer for the KKK in America, the LRA in Uganda, the IRA in Ireland, or Christian militias in CAR, among other so-called...
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