Canadian Muslim Groups Condemn Deadly Attacks
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iStock/Thinkstock(OTTAWA, Ontario) — This week’s deadly attacks in Canada were condemned Thursday by Muslim groups who claimed that “violent extremist ideologies…have nothing to do with Islam.”
Ihsaan Gardee, the executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, added that an attack on one Canadian is an attack on all those who denounce terrorism.
Muslims in the country are hoping there is no backlash against them following Wednesday’s shooting death of a guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a recent convert to Islam. Zehaf-Bibeau was gunned down after trying to shoot up Parliament.
Earlier this week, Martin Couture-Rouleau, who also converted to Islam, killed a Canadian Forces member with a vehicle in a small Quebec town. He was chased down by local police and then shot dead.
Despite the conversion of these individuals, mainstream Muslims contend the killers’ acts have no basis in their religion.
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