Muslim Leaders Insist Islamic State Not Islamic.

Muslim Leaders Insist Islamic State Not Islamic. HT: TIP.

More than a dozen American Muslim leaders condemned the Islamic State's (IS) brutal tactics as contrary to Islam Wednesday during a press conference held at the National Press Club.

But in doing so, several speakers urged the public to ignore the terrorist group's theological motivations.
Talib Shareef, imam of Masjid Muhammad in Washington, D.C., exhorted the media to refer to IS as the "Anti-Islamic" State because its actions run contrary to the teachings of Mohammed.

"This is not an Islamic State of being; it's not an Islamic State of mind; and it's not an Islamic State that the prophet himself created in his first state, where he saw this beautiful peace and equality for all religions – Jews, Christians that were there with him," Shareef said, noting what Muslims call the Medina Charter.

Another speaker, former Council on American-Islamic Affairs (CAIR) Tampa director Ahmed Bedier, later wrote on Twitter that IS "is not a product of Islam," and blamed America for its emergence.

CAIR, which portrays FBI agents as ruthless schemers out to set up Muslims for trumped-up charges, was noticeably absent from Wednesday's news conference. Its Minnesota chapter obstructed FBI investigations into al-Shabaab's recruitment of Somali Muslims in the Twin Cities, and its San Francisco chapter published a poster saying: "Build A Wall of Resistance: Don't Talk to the FBI."

Another group, the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), which counts Magid as a member, published an article in 2008 written by Hatim al-Haj, a member of its fatwa committee, saying that working for the FBI was "impermissible" because of the "harm they inflict on Muslims."Read the full story here.


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