The vast majority of peaceful Muslims should not be blamed for the work of a few disgruntled “criminals”, a leading American Muslim activist said Sunday, July 17.
“The problem is that one or two criminals can create an impression that an entire community is to be blamed, and so you are always subject to those one or two people,” Ibrahim Hooper, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “If you know the reality, you can see these handful of people as the aberration that they are – the same way that we didn’t say Catholicism was bad when the IRA was blowing up things in London.”
The military tribunals of suspected terrorists held at Guantánamo Bay were a “tremendous failure”, a US military lawyer told Congress yesterday.
“Ken Livingstone, London’s famously loose-lipped mayor, boarded a subway train here as cameras flashed, demonstrating this city’s resolve not to be cowed by the terrorist attacks that struck three subways and a bus last week. ‘We are going to work, we carry on our lives,’ Livingstone told reporters on Monday morning before resuming his usual commute to work. ‘We don’t let a small group of terrorists change the way we live.’ And that was all.
One of Britain’s most senior Muslim leaders said Thursday that he was denied entry to the United States without explanation, nearly a week after the deadly subway and bus attacks in London. Dr. Zaki Badawi, head of the Muslim College, told The Associated Press he was denied entry when he arrived in New York on Wednesday. No explanation was given, he said. He had been invited to speak at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, where he planned to give a talk under the title “The Law and Religion in Society.”