Turkish scholar slams deviate ISIL ideology

Rasa - Top Turkish cleric slammed ISIL for its excommunication ideology and its rejection of all people except its members.

News ID: 3113

Date: 10 August 2015 - 22:40

RNA - Mehmet Görmez, Turkey's head of the religious affairs, assimilated ISIL to Khawarij denouncing the terrorist group for excommunicating all Muslims from Islam, Taghrib reported.

He called ISIL the brainchild of Al Qaeda with the difference that it ISIL excommunicates even Qaeda and calls its massacre of the people as Jihad.

Turkish scholar denounced crimes committed by ISIL and noted," Shedding the blood of the people and violating their rights is not called Jihad when true Jihad is confrontation with oppression and corruption; then, what ISIL is claiming to be Jihad is a great treachery to Islam."

Görmez criticized ISIL for bringing the worst damage to Islam and said," All scholars religious institutions have rejected ISIL as a non-Islamic construct; therefore, Muslim scholars have to convene and take a unified stance against the terrorist group."

Turkey's Organization of Religious Affairs has performed a report on the objectives, tactics, power, activities and religious understanding of religion.

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