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Article: News Focus: PEOPLE CALLED ON NOT TO LINK TERROR TO ISLAM.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2009
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By Andi Abdussalam Jakarta, July 20 (ANTARA) - Various Muslim leaders and organizations are calling on all sides not to link Islam to terror attacks which killed nine people and injured more than 50 others in Jakarta last week. "Resorting to terror was not Islamic. Islam does not adopt that terror behavior. So, the bomb terror such as the bombings of two top hotels in South Jakarta on Friday has no link with Islam," chairman of the Islamic organization 'PB Trabiyah', Basri Bermanda, said on Sunday. A similar call was also made by the country's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdhatul Ulama (NU). "Terrorism is not a religion and so it is not correct to say Muslims were ...