Iranian president Hassan Rouhani called the attacks a “crime against humanity”, Qatari foreign minister Khaled al-Attiyah described them as “heinous”, and Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister declared they were “in violation and contravention of all ethics, morals and religions”.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations has consistently and repeatedly condemned all acts of terrorism wherever they have occurred.
In one viral YouTube video, a Moroccan Muslim named Wafi Abdouss criticized the violence in Paris, saying “these so-called jihadists [sic] only represent themselves”. Yet again, extremist groups with no claim on Islam or Muslims yet who have the temerity to besmirch and befoul the reputation of a religion and way of life of 1.6 billion people are responsible.
The New York-based Islamic Circle of North America, a member of the coalition group, said the organization “stands united with the people of France” and urged the French authorities to take “swift action in apprehending the perpetrators of this attack and bring them to justice”.
He said the double suicide-bomb attack in the busy residential and commercial district of Borj al-Barajneh exposed the second face of the terrorist movement, namely sectarianism.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo also condemned the Paris attacks and shared the belief that the proper response is worldwide cooperation and unity. Al-Qaida wanted to unite the ummah, the world’s Muslims, in order to overturn “corrupt, hypocrite” regimes, primarily in the Middle East. This was a first step to reclaiming the lost power and glory of the great medieval Muslim empires and refounding the caliphate.
“Though 120 people have been killed in Paris and the world is shaking right now, but what about the people, the thousands who have been killed [already]?” Explaining that he sees the violence as part of a “piecemeal Third World War”, he said “there is no religious or human justification” for the attacks.
Its attacks are not random nor indiscriminate. That is not Islam. The militants would have us all believe that attacks like the mass murder of civilians in Paris are necessary in order to deter Western powers from getting involved in the affairs of Muslim countries and to create the boundaries of the modern “Caliphate”. “The ISCJ strongly condemns the attacks that took place”, reads the prepared statement.
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We will update this post as more information comes in. Several celebrities have received backlash over comments making light of the Paris attacks such as Rob Lowe and James Woods.
