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Posted: Friday, 06 November 2009 2:05PM Local Arab and Muslim Groups Condemn Shootings |
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Local Arab and Muslim groups are speeking out strongly against the shootings at Fort Hood Texas that have left 12 dead and 31 injured. “We, as American's, are aggrieved by this tragic incident that took place. No religion or political ideology that is decent can ever justify such a killing, such a massacre. And we condemn what took place at Fort Hood in the strongest terms,” said Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter. A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, said his heart sank when he saw the Islamic name of the alleged gunman in yesterday's rampage at Texas' Fort Hood. "We ask Americans to realize that the Arab American and American Muslim communities cannot be responsible for the actions of one person who happens to be of the same ethnicity or religion," said Imad Hamad, regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Dearborn, according to The Arab American News. The Arab American News also said that the Congress of Arab American Organizations in Michigan “unequivocally condemned the deplorable incident.” "Arab Americans are as devastated about those killed and wounded and their families as all other Americans are," said Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab American News and spokesman of CAAO. "We stand with President Obama in condemning this horrific incidence of violence.” A former imam at a mosque Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter, attended in Silver Spring, Md. said he was a lifelong Muslim. |
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