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MURIC dissociates Islam from violent propensity of ISIS

By Sulaimon Salau
19 November 2015   |   11:00 pm
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the recent terrorist attacks in France that killed about 129 people. The group described the act as “despicable, vicious and barbaric”. Terrorists on Friday 13th November, 2015 launched seven coordinated attacks on Paris killing at least 129 people. The attacks occurred at the Stade de France, the Petit…

isisThe Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned the recent terrorist attacks in France that killed about 129 people. The group described the act as “despicable, vicious and barbaric”.

Terrorists on Friday 13th November, 2015 launched seven coordinated attacks on Paris killing at least 129 people. The attacks occurred at the Stade de France, the Petit Cambodge restaurant, the Le Carillon bar, the Rue de la Fontaine au Roi, the Casa Nostra pizzeria, the la Belle Equipe and the Bataclan Concert.

MURIC, in a statement signed by the Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, said the act by ISIS took humanity back to the Stone Age, grant unfettered licence to lawlessness and fuel universal chaos.

“It is becoming more glaring that the main preoccupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is the shedding of innocent blood and the precipitation of religious war, particularly between Christians of the West and Muslims of the Middle East.

“We dissociate ourselves from the violent propensity of ISIS and its blood-thirsty associates in Al-Qaedah and Boko Haram whose stock-in-trade is the misinterpretation of the peaceful message of Islam.

“We reject the hate messages of messengers of death who ask Muslims to kill Westerners. We affirm clearly and unequivocally that Islam neither teaches racism nor does it endorse terrorism,” he said.

MURIC therefore called on Muslim youths all over the world to save Islamdom from an implosion induced by extremism. This, he said they can do by distancing themselves from radical and violent groups.

“Nonetheless, we charge the West to look beyond the attacks. The authors of these horrendous attacks have merely manifested homicidal tendencies propelled by perceived provocations, presumably from anti-Muslim legislations in France and the genocides in Bosnia, Myammar, Central African Republic, etc in which thousands of Muslims were killed in cold blood while the West stood akimbo and the United Nations did nothing.

Akintola said the group stand side by side with France today in its fight against terrorism, urging the misled agents of destruction in ISIS, Al-Qaedah and Boko Haram to go back to the true and peaceful message of Islam.

“We appeal to countries of the West to return to the drawing board for the purpose of charting a new course based on justice, mutual respect and the recognition of Allah-given fundamental human rights in their dealings with Muslims all over the world,” he said.

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