Islam is innocent of what you have accused it

Submitted by Samia (Australia), Jan 22, 2010 at 22:27

I understand the writer's concern of there being some people under the name of Islam doing wrong to others. But let me make it clear to you that the presence of such people does mean that Islam preaches such wrong doing to non-Muslims who live side-by-side with Muslims.

I live in Australia and even here there are some people who plot to copy acts such as those of osama bin laden which kill innocent people - often including Muslims. Such people often belong to a sect who claim to be Muslims but are really extremists. They are a minority and the majority of Muslims are not like that.

All Muslims who practise their religion are among the best of people in manners to both Muslims and non-Muslims.

In Australia we have an association which aims to get rid of extremism:

http://darulfatwa.org.au/content/view/83/169/

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