{"id":10335,"date":"2014-08-28T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10335"},"modified":"2014-08-28T14:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:18:10","slug":"detroit-shia-and-sunni-muslim-leaders-denounce-isis-as-crazy-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/detroit-shia-and-sunni-muslim-leaders-denounce-isis-as-crazy-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Shia and Sunni Muslim leaders denounce ISIS as &#8216;crazy criminals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Muslim leaders gathered Monday on the steps of Dearborn City Hall to strongly condemn ISIS, saying the militant group in Iraq and Syria doesn\u2019t represent Islam or Muslims.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISIS members are \u201ccrazy criminals who are abusing our religion,\u201d said Imam Mohammed Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. \u201cYou\u2019re a bunch of gangsters &#8230; you\u2019re not Islamic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Organized by imams with the Michigan Muslim Community Council, the speakers included both Shia and Sunni leaders of different ethnicities and races, all united in saying ISIS doesn\u2019t speak for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe beheading of James Foley &#8230; is a clear violation of the holy Quran and the teachings of Prophet Mohammed,\u201d said Imam Mustapha Elturk, who cochairs along with Elahi the Imams Council of the Michigan Muslim Community Council. \u201cISIS neither represents Islam nor Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s event was the third anti-ISIS rally in Dearborn this summer that was organized by local Muslims. Two rallies organized by Shia leaders were held in Dearborn in June that condemned ISIS. Hundreds attended both rallies.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 attended Monday\u2019s rally, which included remarks by local imams, Osama Siblani, publisher of Arab American News in Dearborn, Dawud Walid, director of the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Steve Spreitzer, president and CEO of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are the enemies of humanity,\u201d Siblani said of ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>Siblani and Elahi asked the U.S. to stop supporting Syrian opposition groups such as ISIS. The U.S. has said it supports moderates in Syria\u2019s opposition, not extremist groups like ISIS. Elahi also criticized Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cISIS is a terrorist group,\u201d said Imam Ali Ali, religious leader of the Muslim Community of Western Suburbs, a Canton mosque. \u201cThey don\u2019t speak in the name of Islam, in the name of Muslims, in the name of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One cleric in Dearborn, Ahmad Jebril, has become the most popular religious leader online for ISIS fighters from the West, according to a British think-tank. But leaders at Monday\u2019s rally were squarely united against ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have an evil agenda not witnessed since Nazi Germany,\u201d Ahmad Nasser of Livonia said of ISIS. \u201cThey are repulsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imam Aly Lela of Troy said of ISIS: \u201cThis is not the Islam we practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abna.ir\/english\/service\/america\/archive\/2014\/08\/26\/633611\/story.html\">ABNA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim leaders gathered Monday on the steps of Dearborn City Hall to strongly condemn ISIS, saying the militant group in Iraq and Syria doesn\u2019t represent Islam or Muslims. ISIS members are \u201ccrazy criminals who are abusing our religion,\u201d said Imam Mohammed Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. \u201cYou\u2019re a bunch of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1253,905,775,118,163],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-detroit","tag-isis","tag-shia-sunni-unity","tag-sunni","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}