{"id":129808,"date":"2014-09-04T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=129808"},"modified":"2014-09-04T14:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T09:03:53","slug":"sri-lankan-muslims-call-upon-is-leader-to-stop-killing-innocent-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-muslims-call-upon-is-leader-to-stop-killing-innocent-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Muslims Call Upon IS Leader To Stop Killing Innocent Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Muslim+Council+of+Sri+Lanka&amp;x=5&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Muslim Council of Sri Lanka<\/span><\/a> (MCSL) has called upon the leader of the terror group Islamic State (IS) &#8211; Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to put an immediate stop to the massacre of innocent humans in the name of Islam.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_129809\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-Al-Qaeda-Iraq-ISIS-400x330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129809\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129809\" alt=\"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi \" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-Al-Qaeda-Iraq-ISIS-400x330.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-Al-Qaeda-Iraq-ISIS-400x330.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-Al-Qaeda-Iraq-ISIS-400x330-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-129809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MCSL Vice President Hilmy Ahamed releasing a statement has condemned the continued executions of innocent civilians, journalists and aid workers by the IS of which the most recent victim is American journalist Steven Sotloff.<\/p>\n<p>Describing these executions as \u2018cheap and abusive students\u2019 carried out by the brutal terrorists to intimidate the whole world, Ahamed has pointed out that these actions have no place in Islam or in the teaching of Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIslam forbids torture, harassment and murder of even combatants,\u201d he has written, to further emphasize his arguments.<\/p>\n<p>He has gone on to state that these actions of the IS are crimes that should be condemned by all nations and have called upon the international community including all Islamic countries to act decisively against the IS who have embarked on a killing spree that Islam forbids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also call upon all Muslims around the word to engage in prayers for the victims,\u201d the statement further read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":129809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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