24.10.2012, 13:48
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A shot that should be heard round the world
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) -- “The extremists are disbelievers,” said Imam Reza (AS).
On October 9, 14-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban militants in the town of Mingora for speaking out against the extremists and promoting education for girls and women in the Swat Valley.
The Taliban tried to justify the attack by citing verses from the Holy Quran and hadiths. The West immediately seized upon this despicable crime and pointed an accusing finger at Islam.
This act may have been committed by someone who claims to be a Muslim and belongs to a fundamentalist group that professes to be Islamic, but Imam Reza (AS) would not even have considered whoever pulled the trigger a Muslim. Hence, Islam should not be blamed. The Taliban does not represent Islam any more than Rabbi Kahane’s Jewish Defense League of Zionist settler thugs represents the divinely revealed religion of Judaism or the Ku Klux Klan represents Christianity.
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