Iranian Islamic unity center slams CAR Muslim killings

Rasa - Center for Islamic unity in the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a statement denouncing the recent killings of Muslims in Central African Republic (CAR) slamming neutral stance of international bodies towards the crime.

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Date: 23 February 2014 - 21:01

Rasa News Agency reports - Following the killing of Muslims in the Central African Republic by armed paramilitary groups, World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thoughts issued a statement slamming the crime and demanding international organizations to react against the killings, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).

World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in this statement denounces attacks by extremist groups on Muslims which are aimed at ethnic cleansing and mass murdering of Muslims calling the move as human catastrophe.

Part of this message reads,” Here in the name of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, we denounce these terror attacks and international silence to these murders, lootings and genocide.”

The statement also demands Union of African Countries and international bodies to take measure to stop the incidents and founding mutual respect among followers of different divine religions.

In the most recent of these attacks three Muslim civilians have been shot dead by a group of angry Christians in the Central African Republic (CAR).

The three were travelling in the Combattant neighborhood near the airport in the capital Bangui when an angry mob stopped their taxi and killed them brutally on Saturday.