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Today two car bombs killed at least 13 people in Mogadishu, Somalia. Many of those killed are there as peacekeepers to help keep the city safe in preparation for elections. And in other recent attacks women and children have also been killed.

Al-Shabab, a local ally of al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility. The whole world united in horror when this happened in Nice, Brussels or last week in several German cities, -- but this is the tenth deadly attack on Muslim cities recently, and our global response now is even more crucial.

ISIS and al-Qaeda want to split the human family. To divide the world's 1.6 billion Muslims from everyone else, and even against each other. Muslims have been their greatest victims -- and if we say nothing when scores of our fellow humans are massacred in Somalia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh or Syria -- terror wins.
 
Click to send a message of love and unity to the people of Mogadishu. Let’s join together - Muslims and Non-Muslims - to declare we are undivided. Our messages will be plastered across Mogadishu to fiercely show our solidarity and overwhelm hate with our love: 

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It can feel like ISIS, al-Qaeda want and their xenophobic counterparts like Trump, Farage and Le Pen are growing in strength. That is exactly what they want us to believe. In truth the massive overwhelming majority of us - Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, agnostic - live in harmony with each other, respecting our diversity. Only a tiny minority use bloody weapons, and violent lies to create the most powerful tool - fear - to drive us apart.

But our small actions can challenge that fear. We covered Nice, Paris and Beirut with posters of love after those attacks, and when people saw messages from around the world -- they smiled, saying it quelled their anxiety and strengthened their sense of humanity. 
 
Of course this cannot be the only global response -- military action is required to go after ISIS and those that fuel their rise, as are policies to defeat the misery that has given rise to ISIS, and deal with disenfranchisement and Islamophobia. We also need to recognise and consider how to help those who turned to ISIS because as they were being brutalised or lost their way, the world ignored them, lamented, or did nothing.

Let’s ensure that love, the transformational antidote to terrorists' hate, blooms between Muslims and everyone else everywhere. THAT would be ISIS' and al-Qaeda's worst nightmare -- that their terror campaign backfired to create an even stronger weave of love, that could even give the young people they aim to recruit cause to hesitate. Click to send a message of unity to show our sympathy and solidarity as one human family:

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These are dark times, and terror and division are spreading fast and deep, everywhere. Our people have met moments like this before by listening to each other more deeply. If we can follow the words of Jo Cox MP, who was brutally assassinated, and see that there is truly more that unites us than divides us, these violent groups will lose the sea that they swim in, and drown. 

With love and determination,

Luis, Meredith, Lisa, Risalat, Emma, Wissam, Fadi, Fatima and the whole Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION

Somalia attack: Twin car bombs explode by Mogadishu airport (BBC News) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36892048

Al-Shabab bombs target African Union troops in Somalia (Al Jazeera)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/huge-blasts-heard-airport-somalia-mogadishu-160726035504889.html

Foreign troops in Somalia struggle to keep al-Shabaab at bay (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jul/15/foreign-troops-in-somalia-struggle-to-keep-al-shabaab-at-bay
 
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