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Sunday 15 Feb 2015 - 10:23 Makkah mean time-26-4-1436  Jeddah (IINA) – Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Madani condemned the brutal murder of three young innocent Muslims in the United States, and called for efforts to curb religious intolerance.
Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, were fatally shot in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on Tuesday.
Madani stated that this brutal crime had shocked Muslims around the world and raised concerns over rising anti-Muslim sentiments and Islamophobic acts in the United States.
The Secretary General commended the statement of President Obama, who said, “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship”. Madani urged the U.S. government to take steps towards ensuring protection against stereotyping, discrimination and profiling, which are inconsistent with core values of American society, and for which it is admired.
Madani welcomed the FBI enquiry into the case as a positive step, so that three promising young people, whose lives were tragically cut short, did not die in vain.
He reiterated that hate and intolerance should have no place in a multicultural world, thereby he underlined the importance of interfaith and intercultural dialogue at the community level. He praised the overwhelming unity of the American Muslim community and the gestures of solidarity of the American people with the families of the victims, rejecting the murder which bear the symptoms of a hate crime. Madani called for cooperation at the international level to counter extremism, religious intolerance, and incitement to hatred and hate crimes.
The Secretary General expressed his profound sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. He also expressed his wishes that Allah the Almighty shower the souls of the deceased with mercy, forgiveness, and eternal peace.
AB/IINA
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