Forty-nine people died at the scene. It is very disheartening for true believers of Islam to see such barbaric acts against humanity done by so-called Muslims which are completely against the true teachings of Islam. “The ISCJ strongly condemns this unjustified attack”.
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La Trina Jackson says she identifies as a queer Muslim. “It is from sharia – which draws on Muslim scripture”, wrote former US federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, on the website of the conservative journal National Review soon after the attack.
President Obama said the internet played a role in how Mateen received extremist information.
Seddique Mir Mateen, the suspect’s father, told NBC News that he was “in shock”, but acknowledged his son had recently expressed anti-gay sentiments. The Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has called for Muslims to unite and forcefully dissociate from all acts of terror.
“It’s not about what’s on the internet”. They both said he shot the Pulse Club customers, killing at least 50 of them and wounding a hundred more, because he saw them as evil – not because he was carrying out an ISIS terrorist, political operation. He is gay and a resident of San Bernardino County. We offer our condolences to the families and friends of those killed and wounded, and to all Americans who grieve for this tragedy. We teach our children that this is one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all – not just for people who look a certain way, or love a certain way, or worship a certain way.
“We do not condone things like this”.
“The result of these attacks should be love and unity and coming together of the American people.” said Imam Michael Smith, Islamic Society of Annapolis.
“That’s the message that we’re spreading today to Muslims, to gay, LGBT, to whether it’s Republicans or Democrats or Green or Socialists and everyone else”.
They should be treated as such by the media, politicians and their communities. -Yes I’m angry for what happened last night and all the innocent lives we lost.
A leader in the local Muslim community says the timing of the Orlando nightclub shooting is particularly offensive to people of his faith.
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“Middle Eastern and North African countries have denounced the Orlando shooting when at the same time they criminalize homosexuality with sentences ranging from years in prison to the death penalty”, said Ahmed Benchemsi, communications and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch.
