Government's silence is not profitable to us: Iraq's Sunni scholars

Rasa - Iraq’s Council of Sunni Scholars demands the Iraqi qovernment not to remain silent against the brutality of ISIS in Iraq.

News ID: 1037

Date: 25 August 2014 - 13:50

Rasa News Agency reports – In a message issued by Iraq’s Council of Sunni Scholars, the council has condemned the mass killing of Muslims in a mosque by ISIL. The mosque was located in Iraq’s Diyala province, east of the country.

“We hereby strongly condemn the brutal killing of worshippers in Mos’ab bin Omair Mosque” the message says “and we offer our condolences to the families of the victims.”

The council also demands the government of Iraq not to remain silent against such actions and says: “we hope the government does not remain silent anymore, because silence, especially at the time when the shouts of extremism have come back upon us, will not profit us.”

“The tribal extremist has returned to Iraq” they claim “to insult the blood [of the nation] and religious symbols and sanctities to gain political and personal interests.”

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