U.S. Muslims denounce Brussels bombings

American Muslim Leadership Council (AMLC) Executive Director Imam Helmi Elagha

Kissimmee City, Florida (IINA) - Following Tuesday’s deadly bomb attacks in Brussels, the American Muslim Leadership Council (AMLC ) in Kissimmee in Florida strongly condemned the professed perpetrators, the ISIS group, WFTV Channel 9 Orlando news reported.
“These attacks are crimes against humanity,” the AMLC said. “These terrorist attacks constitute a painful reminder that terrorism is a global threat and no nation is immune from danger.”
The bombings, two at Brussels International Airport and one an hour later at a metro station seven miles away, left 34 people dead and hundreds injured.
Terrorist organization known as ISIS, claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the AMLC said the group is “everything but Islamic.”
ISIS does not “represent Islam in any way,” and the council extended its condolences to the victims and their families and wished “all the injured a speedy recovery.”
“The right to life is the most basic human right,” AMLC Executive Director Imam Abu Farah Helmi Elagha said. “It is a principle in the Islamic faith and no one has the right to take innocent life in the name of God.”
“The crimes of terrorism that we saw in Belgium and all other places shock the conscience of the world,” he added.
On the other side, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, expressed solidarity with the people of Belgium following attacks in that nation’s capital.
In a statement, CAIR said: “We express our solidarity with the people of Belgium and offer condolences to the families and loved ones of all those killed and injured. Such heinous attacks are antithetical to the ideals of civilized society.”
The Washington-based organization also urged media professionals to devote equal attention to such attacks when they occur in other nations. CAIR noted that recent attacks in Turkey took the lives of dozens of people, including two Americans, yet far less attention was paid to those attacks.
American Muslim organizations have consistently and repeatedly condemned terrorism in all its forms.
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