Local Muslim Speaks Out After Orlando Gunman Pledges Loyalty to ISIS

“American Muslims, like all Americans, are shocked by this tragedy and American Muslims, like all Americans, are praying for the victims and their families and for the swift recovery of those injured”. They vowed to continue working tirelessly to change that impression.

The physician asked anyone who wants to donate blood to go to local blood banks.

“As Muslims, as Americans, now is the time to speak out and make it clear, we will not give in to hate, and we will not give in to fear”, Awad said.

Awad noted that “for many years” member of the LGBT community “have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Muslim community against any acts of hate crimes, Islamophobia, marginalization, and discrimination – today we stand with them, shoulder to shoulder. we can not fight injustice against some groups and not against others”. Today, Trump said “we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind. We offer our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones impacted by this tragic crime.

But Muslims around the country and the world are condemning this attack.

“What he stood for was American Islam, not the terrorist cowards who take lives”, Ben-Masaud said.

Muslim LGBTQ activists have called on people to stop using the Orlando killings as an excuse to fuel their own political agendas – by pitting Islam and the gay community against each other.

On the day of the largest mass shooting in US history, carried out against patrons at a gay club by a man officials say gave explicit allegiance to the militant group ISIS, an openly gay Toronto MP took to Twitter with a message he said “needs to be shared”. “There is absolutely no justification whatsoever in a Divine or human value system to justify any act of violence against innocent life based on different beliefs or practices”.

The American Muslim Community Centers, a mosque in Longwood, Fla., said the mosque stands with Americans and “senseless violence has no place in our religion or in our society”.

A law enforcement official told the Associated Press the gunman called 911 from the club and professed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and that he called Allah hu Akbar during the slaughter.