Their future was taken, our future is in your hands

Azerbaijan Student Network staff and members are deeply saddened by the news of recent France and Lebanon terrorist attacks. Our hearts are with families of all victims of these inhuman violence. Terrorism is a common threat for many EU and non-EU nations of different faiths and in this hour we need to stay united and cooperate in order to overcome this danger.
Being students from a predominantly Muslim country - Azerbaijan, we would like to note that our 9 million nation for more than 20 years is facing an occupation of its territory by a neighboring state and has a million of IDPs and refugees. Over few years Azerbaijan witnessed more than three dozens of terrorist attacks and violent acts of ethnic cleansing such as Khojaly massacre implemented or instigated by Christian Armenians against Azerbaijanis. Yet we neither fallen into indiscriminate stigmatization of Christianity or coining term “Christian terrorism”, nor did we committ acts of terror on Armenians in return.
Our organization stands for peaceful existence of all religions and nations and promotes this through its activities. We would like to share with you our latest video that we have prepared in cooperation wih the Holy Sea. In this video Christian, Muslim, Hindu and Jewish children are being received by the Pope Francis in Vatican and ask the Pope to pray for peace so children of all nations and religions can live without fear.
Today, when different terrorist groups try to destroy peace between religions and bring chaos to Europe we feel it is crucial not to fall into pitfall of condemning particular religions for acts of a small marginal groups of fanatics presumably done in the name of a religion they obviously do not understand. With this video we want to remind everyone that the basic European values are intercultural and interreligious tolerance and value of human life, epecially life of the innocent children. Be it children from a small Azerbaijani town of Khojaly, Russian Beslan or such great cities as Paris, Moscow, Beirut or Ankara. We reject violence and terror and with this message delivered to the Holy Father asked him to call upon the world to stop the violence.
Sincerely Yours,
Azerbaijan Student Network

[@siberixrblx666]

you realize that your own soldiers were using those children as human shields against russian/armenian forces right?

[@danielgregorov9583]

Right