Ihsaan Hendricks – 2015-11-16 – Paris terror attacks
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A reporter on the news desk discusses the controversy surrounding ISIS's recent attacks in Paris, where the group claimed responsibility for the attacks. The reporter questions whether the ISIS religious philosophy is rejected by the South African community and emphasizes the importance of explaining the religious teachings of religion to the international community. The reporter also mentions that many people do things in the name of religion in France, which is not a reflection on the legal system.
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Brutality of ISIS actions in Paris, France is
still making headlines across the world. Islamic militants
did claim responsibility for those particular attacks. While
Maulana Hassan Hendrix is the president of the
Muslim Judicial Council based in Cape Town, he
joins us on the line. Good afternoon, Maulana,
and thank you for your time on the
news today desk.
Good afternoon, and good afternoon to, all our
fellow South Africans.
Molana, to what extent,
is the ISIS religious philosophy
rejected by the wider Islamic community?
ISIS claim they are driven by Islamic religious
principles.
I want to say from the offset and
in my capacity as the president of the
Muslim Judicial Council South Africa
that ISIS has absolutely,
no contact or no, basis
in the pure teachings
of the higher objectives of Islam
as a religion.
And therefore, I wish to place on record
that whenever we juxtapose,
the term,
Islamic with ISIS,
then I feel compelled in my capacity as
the president of the Muslim Judicial Council
to pronounce
clearly to the South African community
that there is
absolutely nothing Islamic of ISIS.
There cannot be,
the,
equivalence
of Islamic,
to such
a terrorist
group that, performs,
such type of,
brutal,
inhumane,
actions against
humanity
and against innocent people.
Even though they claim to be, in the
name of Islam
or they have the apparent,
religious or Islamic,
paraphernalia,
I think it is absolutely important to understand
that ISIS has no basis
in Islam as a religion.
Mulana,
these,
I hear you. You you're saying that these
atrocious acts,
should not be allowed
to define an entire religion.
But this extremist group in particular,
it is tainting the name and,
image of of a religion that's practiced by,
1,600,000,000
people worldwide.
What can be done to counter that, Maulana?
The imams coming out in Paris in the
aftermath,
of those attacks singing the French national anthem
and so on, for example, goes a long
way,
to shatter these kind of,
negative indeed dangerous,
kinds of religious
stereotypes? It is precisely for this reason that,
in my capacity as the president of the
MJC and, religious,
leaders in the Muslim community in South Africa
and internationally,
whenever,
such,
inhumane
attacks takes place and it is claimed to
be in the name of ISIS
or anybody carrying an Islamic or a Muslim
name or an Arab name that we as
a religious community, as Muslims are placed on
the back foot that we have to explain
Islam.
And therefore, I want to reiterate
that it is important for people like myself
and the imams and the learned scholars in
Islam to be consistent in explaining
to the South African community and to the
international community
that there is no basis for such a
claim in the name of religion.
Secondly, I wish to place on the record
and not to dilute the importance of it.
It is the fact that,
many people do many things in the name
of religion and religion is absolutely
innocent of it.
Those who do it in the name of
Christianity,
it is not a reflection on Christianity.
Those who claim to do it in the
name of Judaism,
Judaism is not a reflection of that. And
those who do it in the name of
Islam, it is not a reflection
on the pure teachings of the divine religion
such as Islam. Thank you, Maulana. That was
Maulana Hisan Hendrix. He's the president of the
Muslim Judicial Council that's based in Cape Town.
Moving on to other news now between March
2012,
up until now, France has suffered up to
10 terror attacks.