By: Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
Source: https://www.facebook.com/shaykhabulhuda
As a Muslim leader representing many Muslims around the World, especially the UK, I want to express my denunciation in the strongest terms of the inhuman, barbaric killing on the streets of Woolwich, London.
This reprehensible act is an affront to every basic sense of humanity, let alone to the lofty moral ideals of religion. The Name of God, and the religion of Islam can never be used to justify insane acts of terror or cold-blooded murder.
The perpetrators of this cowrdless act do not represent but their own criminal minds and inhumain hearts which are full of hatred.
This is why we urge the British societry not to put any burden of guilt on the Muslim communities which live peacefully amongst them side by side. Muslims in the UK are an integral positive component of the British society and carry but love and peace to Britains and to humanity; as the message of Islam is a message of love, peace and mercy.
Muslims in the West know well their duties in being loyal to the countries where they live and to abide by the laws and to be a source of peace in the societies, as Islam teaches and as we have been preaching. We finally remind Muslims of the Words of God in the Holy Qur’an, “anyone who kills a person it is as though he killed mankind.