Saturday, November 6, 2010

Islamic Society of North America Issues Token Press Release Condemning Murders of Iraqi Christians

A few days ago, when I posted news about the brutal murders of dozens of Christians in Iraq, I mentioned that I was waiting for the standard token press release by ISNA (i.e. one of the press releases that say "We condemn violence" without ever dealing with the reason for the violence, namely, Muhammad's teachings). Well, here it is.

ISNA condemns in the strongest terms and is outraged by the recent barbaric attack which claimed the lives of fifty-eight innocent worshipers and wounded seventy-five others at the Sayidat al-Nejat Catholic Church in Iraq this past Sunday. ISNA urges the world-wide community to pray for the lives of those lost, injured, and affected by these attacks and urges the Iraqi authorities to diligently protect places of worship and ensure that people of all faiths are safe to pray in Iraq.

"ISNA believes in the rights of all people to worship freely without fear of intimidation or violence" said Imam Mohamed Magid, ISNA president. "The level of violence in this incident only heightens our responsibility to speak out against religious intolerance and hatred." He added. ISNA supports religious freedom in words and actions. In the past, the ADAMS center, an affiliate of ISNA and where Imam Magid serves as an executive director, raised funds to rebuild churches that were destroyed by extremists in Pakistan.

"Not long ago our partners in interfaith, from the Catholic community, stood with us here in America to condemn religious intolerance against Muslim places of worship; today, we stand with them as they grieve the loss of their fellow Catholics and reiterate our commitment to the right of their community to worship freely in Iraq" Said Dr Sayyid Syeed, ISNA National Director for interfaith and community alliances.

The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that has ties to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for these horrific attacks. The majority of the attacks and killings carried out by this group in the past have been against Mosques that do not agree with their violent ideology.

ISNA will continue to work with its interfaith partners to promote justice, peace and tolerance and stand against unlawful actions such as those perpetrated by religious extremists last Sunday.

4 comments:

Traeh said...

Does ISNA demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice? I didn't see any such demand. Well, then, their statement means nothing. It's mere sentiment, and faked at that. The flim-flam of it is shown by the fact that it goes with no meaningful action component. David Wood has highlighted the fact that ISNA does not find this massacre sufficient reason to look at Islam's core texts critically. ISNA is not going to reject Muhammad's teachings of jihad violence and the subjugation of non-Muslims. In short, ISNA might as well be an ally of such massacres.

minoria said...

Al-Qaida and ISNA accept the SAME book,the Koran,where in sura 5:14 it says:

"And with those who say 'WE ARE CHRISTIANS' We took compact; and they have forgotten a portion of that they were reminded of. So WE(NOTE:Allah) have stirred up among them ENMITY AND HATRED, till the DAY OF RESURRECTION; and God will assuredly tell them of the things they wrought. "

DOES THE CATHOLIC GROUP THAT IS WITH ISNA ONE THAT RESEARCHES?

Since both groups accept Allah cursed us till the day of resurrection they have to believe there is hatred,enmity among Christians,in other words evil,generation after generation...and all due to Allah's fault.It is his doing.To deny it is to deny Islam.

WHAT IF THE KORAN HAD SAID?

"WE(Allah) have stirred up HATRED AND ENMITY among BROWN AND BLACK AND LIGHT-BROWNED AND RACIALLY-MIXED PEOPLE till the DAY OF RESURRECTION".

It sounds like RACISM to me.

GreekAsianPanda said...

I'm glad that a big Islamic organization is condemning the attacks. If religious intolerance is frowned upon by more Muslims, hopefully fewer Muslims in the world will engage in such violence.

I will continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ and also for the salvation of Muslims everywhere.

hugh watt said...

I too would be cautious about what ISNA have said. However; the word "Interfaith" was repeated a number of times in this article alone, and knowing what the Bible says in regards to the One World Religion that will arise before Christ's return, the PC brigade will be rolling full steam on ahead from now on, from all false religions.