Abiding faith

When Muslims express sympathy and empathy for the victims of ISIL it should not be seen as an apology, but as a demonstration that they are as far removed from the barbarous acts of ISIL as anyone of whatever other faith, for even though ISIL says it is doing these unspeakable acts in the name of Islam, all ordinary Muslims are in equal danger from their heinous acts.
ISIL is as far removed from Islam as it is from any other faith.
We would be wrong to assume ordinary Muslims should even need to feel apologetic for something so deranged and moreover so utterly removed from their faith.
ISIL cannot be apologised for as they are a law onto themselves and nothing but a murderous gang with a hat that doesn't fit.

Before anyone can truly call themselves a Muslim they must be prepared to embrace every other message sent by Him throughout the ages, if not through learning then through faith alone.
The Quran embraces all major religions of the world and even those that precede and moreover a Muslim is referred to as one who may exist unawarely... where the messages have not yet reached.
When faiths are reflected upon and weighed, varying practices may appear as ripples in one ocean, for with focus upon what unites us, all quibbling may be put into shade.
We should note that, as mentioned in the Quran, had He wished to make us all one nation with one creed it would have been so. It is in His wisdom that we are asked to reach out to one another with respect; for it is He and He alone who knows what is in each heart and it is He who judges each of us in the end and only He can iron out the differences.
To that we must adhere even when discussion or intelligent and insightful debates prevail.
When disdain and obtuseness take over we are advised to leave well alone and abide by a well-rehearsed saying which emanates from the Quran; one basically requiring us to believe what we believe and leave each well alone to their belief. The well-known phrase 'لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ', 'you have your religion and I have mine' is part of a verse addressed to the unbelievers of Qureish who worshipped idols fashioned by their own hands. The saying bears significance in a universal and timeless manner for to 'worship' which is an epithet with considerable weight, to worship anything other than the One and Only abolishes unity and is therefore a very strict requirement for any believer of the religions sent by Him and Him alone.
It is through our belief in Good and Evil, in our search for Justice and Truth that we find ourselves, for without belief and search..  very little value to anything we exist for in the end ... endures.

Choice Ltd

Of course next to the Drumpf anything is ok.. But do we really need to endorse his one and only opponent with sainthood so as to ensure he doesn't get in?
With just one look at the US today we can't help but see what trash is building up. The world's a mess and much of it, be it famine or gluttony, sometimes both together, is largely through ruthless global commercialism and policies lacking heavily in ethics, too many of which emanate from the US.

Rhetoric aside, surely we should by now have reached a day where it is 'more than' acceptable for a woman to be in office however surely surely surely it should be because she is the right person for the job and not 'just because' she's a woman who's managed to exploit a somewhat unfortunate set of circumstances in her favour.

Sadly and in my view despicably, the shambles of the Drumpf versus the modern-day woman is held up by desperately shallow modern-day feminism which is a far cry from where and how and why women fought for their rights in the first place. Today's scenario sits on a precariously thin veneer of shallow presentation and truly very little else. In fact the whole election process is based on adulation and its pantomime counterparts serving to do little other than distract us, putting both onlookers and participators in a place where no reflection is forthcoming.
The whole world is dumbed down.
Sordid rather than entertaining, the show must go on and so what will be will be, but putting someone on a pedestal is let's face it, not far from putting them on a hangman's platform, for unless US foreign policies change drastically, the world so captive to these elections cannot even begin to dare to hope.