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Russian MP Wants Term 'islamic Terrorist' Media Ban by Nobody: 5:29pm On Dec 20, 2014 |
MOSCOW – Asserting that terror has no religion, a Russian lawmaker has demanded a ban on the use of expressions such as ‘Islamic terrorist’ and ‘Islamist militant’ in the mass media, waning that they victimize followers of Islam worldwide. “These expressions push people towards the conclusion that Muslim religion and terrorism are the same thing,” Shamsail Saraliyev, from United Russia, told the Duma (Russian Parliament), Izvestia daily report was cited by Russia Today on Thursday, December 18. “Common people automatically begin to associate Muslims with bandits, murderers and terrorists,” he added. Speaking during this week’s session at the State Duma Committee for Information Policy, Saraliyev said that lately the mass media are freely and frequently using expressions like ‘Islamic terrorists’, ‘Islamists’, ‘Jihadists’, ‘Shahid belt’, ‘Terrorist Islamic State’ and many others of this kind. The lawmaker warned that media was giving people the wrong impression about Islam and put ordinary believers at risk. He added that Muslims, on the other hand, prefer to use ‘Kharijites’ – Arabic for ‘dissenters’ or ‘insurgents’, to describe radicals. One typical example of such people are the supporters of the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), he said. “They call themselves the Islamic State, but they have absolutely nothing to do with Islam! For them Islam is just a cloak with which they cover their evil deeds!” Saraliyev confirmed that true Islam promotes a message of kindness and creation that promotes peaceful coexistence between all peoples. “Just as we don’t call fascists ‘Christians’, we should stop using the term Muslims when we describe radical militant groups who claim to be followers of Islam,” he said. A number of Muslim leaders around the world have overtly condemned the Islamic State, issuing strong-worded statements to deny any relation between Islam and the militant group. Earlier, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the highest seat of religious learning in the Sunni world, has condemned ISIL, accusing it of serving a “Zionist” plot to “destroy the Arab World”. Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al- Sheikh condemned Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State jihadists as “enemy number one” of Islam, urging urged Muslims to take up arms against the militant group’s members as aggressors who abuse people’s lives, possessions and honor. The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has dismissed ISIL announcement of forming a “caliphate” in areas they control in Iraq and Syria, saying it lacked any Islamic or realistic aspects. Islam is Russia's second-largest religion representing roughly 15 percent of its 145 million predominantly Orthodox population. The Russian Federation is home to some 23 million Muslims in the north of the Caucasus and southern republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.
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