Catholic celebrity Piers Morgan calls Muslims to take a stand instead of 'cowering in fear'

'I'm a Catholic and if a load of other Catholics suddenly started beheading and shooting people ... I would stand up and denounce them...'

Piers Morgan, a British journalist known for his take on politics, has called for Muslims to take a stand against ISIS terrorists.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In a DailyMail UK article titled "Brave Muslims stopped far more deaths in the Paris terror attacks - now it's up to the rest of Islam to show the same guts and root out ISIS," Morgan describes how suicide bombers attempted to kill thousands of people at the soccer stadium Stade de France.

One bomber attempted to enter with a ticket, but was frisked and discovered by security. That was when the bomber stepped back and detonated his vest. The explosion he caused prompted two of his accomplices to activate their vests as well, but luckily neither was in the packed stadium.

Due to vigilant security guards, only one person beside the bombers was killed. Morgan specified, "...what needs to be made very loudly and clearly public is this: that team of security guards who saved many more lives included Muslims. We know this because one of them, a Muslim known only by his first name Zouheir, revealed the amazing story to the Wall Street Journal."

Zouheir did admit he saw the suicide bomber being evacuated and that the security guards stopped what could have been a "massacre of 9/11 proportions or worse."

Beside the Muslim responsibility taken in Stade de France, a Cosa Nostra Muslim employee named Safer, saved two injured women during Friday's attacks. He ran outside to collect the women amid gunfire and brought them into the general safety of the restaurant.

Morgan calls Muslims to "[c]ompare and contrast these heroic Muslims with that of millions of other Muslims after these latest outrages by terrorists purporting to be acting under specific murderous instruction from THEIR religion, and THEIR prophet."

He added, "All I'm hearing right now is a lot of silence. A loud, deafening silence. An unforgivable, cowardly silence."

Muslims were then put on the spot for keeping silent - regardless of their reasons - and for seeming to be content with doing nothing to stop ISIS terrorism.

"I'm sorry," Morgan wrote, "but it's just not acceptable any more. I'm Catholic and if a load of other Catholics suddenly started beheading and shooting people in the name of my religion in this modern age, falsely claiming papal authority to do so, I would stand up and denounce them from any rooftops I could find.

"As would, I am sure, millions of other Catholics. There would be shared revulsion at the way our religion was being hijacked to justify mass murder. Only when the wider Muslim population turns on ISIS properly in their own communities, renounces everything they stand for, and roots them out, will they be finished off."

Morgan then lays into American President Barack Obama for his inaction against ISIS forces, writing that ISIS' "real strength lies not in Obama's shameful inaction but the equally shameful inaction of many of their fellow Muslims.

"ISIS have terrorized many of them into supine lack of resistance, which is perhaps understandable in places like Iraq and Syria given the barbarity of their violence. What is not understandable, nor acceptable, is the spinelessness from Muslims living outside the war zones. They need to find a voice, and their feet, and get out of their homes to protest about what ISIS is doing.

"I want to see Muslim anti-ISIS marches, Muslim anti-ISIS conferences, Muslim anti-ISIS rallies. I want to hear that Muslim clerics have denounced ISIS in mosques to congregations of young impressionable people. I want social media to blow up with furious Muslims attacking ISIS, with the same velocity deployed by those callous suicide bombers. I've said many times that ISIS are not 'real' Muslims and been mocked for it. But they're not."

As Safer said, "This has nothing to do with religion. Real Muslims are not made for killing people, these are criminals."

While most Muslims are non-violent, law-abiding people, extremists have stereotyped the religion and continue to spread terror. Is Morgan right to call on Muslims to stand up for themselves or should world nations come together to create a stronger force against ISIS? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

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