The American Islamic Fellowship is shocked and saddened by the shooting today at the National Holocaust Museum by a suspected white supremacist. Our prayers are with the family of the museum guard whose life was taken. Editor of the Diversity Report, Deborah Levine writes about her experience of the museum and her reaction to the shooting here: "Say No to Hate"
The Council on American-Islamic Relations also released a statement: "We condemn this apparent bias-motivated attack and stand with the Jewish community and with Americans of all faiths in repudiating the kind of hatred and intolerance that can lead to such disturbing incidents."
QURAN 2: 114
ReplyDelete"Hence, who could be more wicked than those who bar the mention of God’s name from [any of ] His houses of worship and strive for their ruin, [although] they have no right to enter them save in fear [of God]?
For them, in this world, there is ignominy in store; and for them, in the life to come, awesome suffering.
Quran 22: 40 [al-Hajj, Medina 103 ]
........monasteries churches synagogues and mosques in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure. God will certainly aid those who aid His (cause); for verily God is Full of Strength Exalted in Might (Able to enforce His Will).
The above two and other messages in the Quran are abundadntly clear that all places of worship must be treated with due respect and reverence.
Perpetrating violence in those places of prayer is warned by severe punishment both in this life and the Hereafter.
Ruby Amatulla
MPJP