Close to a week after the tragic attacks on Paris, many students are still trying to cope with the event. Danielle Robinson, a senior, is among those who were impacted.

“Friday marked the day of devastation for my family,”  Robinson said. “I found out at the football game when my dad told me near the gate and I broke down. My family was in Paris and any one of them could have been hurt. It broke my heart as my grandmother told me one of her friends was among the 129 that were brutally murdered. France is where my heart is. I pray that they find peace and not turn their sorrow into anger.”

While many students have been impacted by the deaths caused by the Paris attacks, other students, including senior Dini Mohamud, are concerned about how the attacks could influence how the international community views Islam.

“I feel like [the attacks] add to the theory that Islam promotes terrorism, but ISIS is a terrorist organization that does not represent Islamic values,” Mohamud said.

Annandale is a diverse community, and has a large number of Muslim students. Mohamud is not the only one who is concerned about the global and local perception of Islam as a result of this attack. Youssef El Boukri, a junior, also shares Mohamud’s sentiments.

“I am fed up because every time a terrorist attack happens [people] automatically blame Muslims,” El Boukri said. “If you actually read and study the religion, we are totally against violence and always promote peace.”

Many students have joined the international community in a display of solidarity for the French people. Facebook has released a tool that allows users to change their profile pictures to display France’s national colors. Websites such as Google, YouTube and others displayed France’s colors or released statements of support for the people of France.

While some users have simply changed their social media accounts in a show of support, others have been quite active in condemning the Islamic State. Over the weekend, the twitter hashtag, “#notinmyname,” has been used by Muslims throughout the world to decry the actions of the Islamic State. Others have asked the international community not to allow the Paris attackers to define what Islam stands for.

Within Annandale, sophomore Mariam Mohamed is one among the many condemning the Islamic State.

“I feel as if Muslims have once again been shed in a bad light,” Mohamed said. “It’s really saddening to see such things happen. Terrorism has no religion.”

Friday’s terrorist attacks throughout Paris have left over 129 people dead, and over 200 more injured. The French president Francois Hollande has called the attack “an act of war,” and according to NPR, has driven France to pursue a more aggressive bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Syria. Internationally, the event has sparked widespread condemnation of the Islamic State, the group responsible for the attack. The international consequences go further than that. Although the G-20 international leadership meeting in Turkey is ongoing at the time of writing, it appears the attacks in Paris could potentially create a renewed “united front” against global terrorism.

That all said, the consequences of this event are not isolated to the international stage. This event has had domestic impacts throughout the world. The Washington Post reports that hundreds of arrests and police raids have been made in France and Belgium. The BBC reports that the French president, Francois Hollande, has ordered a state of tighter security in France for three months. In the United States, the Washington Post has reported that many governors have publicly stated they would not allow Syrian refugees and migrants into their states.

The Islamic State has wasted no time making additional threats. In a recently released video, a Reuters translation indicates that the group is warning of the possibility of a similar attack in Washington D.C. According to Reuters, the Department of Homeland security has refused to comment on the video, but has stated that it has “not received information indicating a potential attack.” Though the Federal government has not confirmed the video as a credible threat, the Washington Post has reported that the D.C. Metro system has “beefed up security measures.” Additionally, Around the NFL has reported that football games over the weekend had a heightened state of security, and observed moments of silence for the French people.

According to the Washington Post, many French businesses “have defiantly remained open,” and French citizens are still frequenting Paris’s many cafés and restaurants. However, the NPR has reported that many French citizens become uneasy when they hear emergency vehicle sirens and firecracker explosions have triggered a number of false panics throughout the city.