Ihsaan Hendricks – 2015-11-16 – On the extremists involved in the Syria’s civil war, Lebanon & Paris
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A representative from the Muslimroom discusses the claims made by the West on the cancellation of the upcoming attack in Paris. The representative expresses concern that the attack is a result of groups like the Iranian and Iranian-backed terrorist groups, and warns against anyone who claims to be part of these groups. The representative also addresses concerns about the upcoming refugee crisis and the potential loss of peaceful co union among various communities.
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Very disturbing the words of Islamic State threatening
Washington DC and the USA, the same organization
involved in the brutal war in Syria, the
same group who lay claim to the vicious
deaths in both the Lebanon and, of course,
the ferocious brutality
in France, all claim to be Muslim
doing the work of Allah.
So radical is their belief that they are
prepared to murder their own other Muslims as
well. Well, joining us now to shed a
little bit of light on this and discuss
this further via Skype is Mulana Ixan Hendrix.
He's the president of a Muslim Judicial Council.
Mulana, thank you very much for being with
us, and welcome to Morning Live.
Good morning, Adrienne. Good morning, South Africa, and
thank you very much for the wonderful opportunity.
An absolute pleasure.
Mulana, how do you react to the claim,
and and I suppose
the issue that the people that are taking
responsibility
are Muslim?
In my capacity as the president of the
Muslim Judicial Council South Africa,
we can then the attacks in Paris.
And yes, from the offset, we want to
say
that this group has absolutely
no connection to Islam.
Islam as a religion is completely
innocent and free
from the type of claims and the actions
such as the brutality,
the violence and the terrorism.
Islam is based on the highest objectives
of life
and such as the preservation of life,
the preservation of honor and therefore,
such type of actions has absolutely no scope
in the pure teachings of Islam.
So from the offset, it's very important to
say that Islam as a religion is completely
innocent of these type of actions.
Yeah. When when you hear these,
these individuals, and I I suppose to to
dub them as terrorists is is fair after
what we've been seeing unveiled. When they say
that they're going to do this in the
name of Allah, what does that do to
you? I mean, how does that make you
feel?
It places me and every other leader in
the Slim community in this responsibility
that we need to explain
not only to South Africa but to the
international community
as much as the paraphernalia
appears to be Islamic,
but the name Islamic
cannot be juxtaposed
with these type of actions.
And therefore, it cannot be in the name
of Allah, it cannot be in the name
of Islam,
it cannot be in the name of any
religion, whether it be Islam,
Christianity or
Judaism,
such as
the prime objective
of the Sharia of Islam is the preservation
of life.
What we see from such type of groups
is the destruction of life,
the brutality,
the very unacceptable manner in which and I
need to place on record, Leanne
and fellow South Africans,
in many instances, you may have followed that
the Muslims
are in actual fact the first victims and
amongst the victims
of such a brutal attack by these groupings.
What what is this doing for the reputation
of of Muslims around the world? I mean,
do you find that there's a lot more
prejudice towards you because of of these incidences
that are happening globally?
We are already beginning to see that the
Muslim community in France and in Europe, there
is a 20,000,000
Muslim population, of which 8% of the 20,000,000
is based in France.
We have already seen in the last 24
hours that the Muslim community, particularly in France,
is on the back foot.
Defense French authorities are now talking of the
possible removal and expulsion
of many of the imams,
whom they believe that the mosque and these
centers
are the centers for such type of rhetoric.
And it is clear that many innocent people
will also be harmed in the process.
And therefore, yes, it is of a great
concern for all of us.
In terms of the refugee crisis, and that's
one of the the the big issues that
needs to be looked at as well. And
I know that our president, Jacob Zuma, as
well as US president, Barack Obama, is just
urging the world not to see all Muslims
and, of course, all refugees
as people that are wanting to come into
their countries to cause problems.
You know, there is a major crisis. So
many refugees fleeing,
areas that are politically unstable, full of war.
Again, do you think that this is going
to to pose a huge problem to them?
It is precisely why the refugee crisis and
particularly of the Syrian people is where it
is today.
Because of such type of groupings, many of
these people are fleeing
from the type of brutality and the terrorism.
All that they want to enjoy is a
peaceful stay in their own country.
We have heard president,
Barack Obama portion,
the American United States of
America. And so yes, by all indications, it
is clear,
And so yes, by all indications,
it is clear
that many of the refugees
will suffer the blow in light of these
attacks that took place in Paris. Yeah. There's
a there's a major concern from many,
many people that
this it seems to be an indoctrination
of young people who are perhaps frustrated and
easily convinced into taking action on behalf of
others,
to the point of killing them, blowing themselves
up, and killing other people.
You know, and many saying you don't necessarily
see this in other religions and that it
it it comes from Islam.
Why? What what do you attribute this to?
Well, from the offset, I would want to
say that this is not peculiar to the
Muslim community. And again, Islam as a religion
is completely innocent.
But indoctrination
is
a process that is
used.
And of course, many of the young people,
as you would recall, not too long ago
in South Africa and particularly here in the
Western Cape,
we were exposed to the possible recruitment of
young 15 year old
boys and girls to the
ranks sizes.
It is precisely in light of this when
the Muslim Judicial Council
and many other Muslim leaders in South Africa
took the bull by the horns to say,
this is completely not the makeup of the
Muslim community in South Africa.
We will not allow our innocent young sons
and daughters to be
recruited, indoctrinated,
and, of course,
misuse and abuse when people misuse and abuse
religious texts for their own, agendas.
Yeah. Indeed.
Mulana, just to to wrap it up. I
mean, I do know that as much as
people were,
laying blame on Islam and Muslims in general,
a lot of other people were taking a
different course in saying that it's not religion
that kills, it's man that kills. And,
you know, that that that that's one of
the things that many people are focusing in
on. I mean, is this is this a
belief that you hold and and and you
would like to promote as well?
Of course, religious
religion does not kill. It is purely placed
at the individual accents of human being.
But one cannot deny that religion
sometimes is used and abused
for such type of agendas.
We call for peaceful coexistence amongst the religious
communities.
We call for the preservation of life for
the greater respect of human values.
And that, of course, we uphold these principles
in order to ensure
that there is peaceful coexistence amongst various communities.
Molena, Ekso Henriks, we we thank you very
much for your time. Here, of course, is
the president of the Muslim Judicial Council
talking to us via Skype. Thank you again.
Alright. The time.