Alan Henning: British Muslim Leaders Unite To Urge ISIS To Release UK Hostage
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British Muslims at the Active Change Foundation
youth centre in Leytonstone, east London,
launch a social media campaign against Isis (PA)
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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More than 100 Muslim leaders today make an unprecedented joint appeal to the kidnappers of Alan Henning to release the aid worker unharmed or commit the “worst condemnable sin” against Islam.
The statement to The Independent has been signed by dozens of Imams from across the UK as well as community leaders and other prominent Muslims. It has been passed on to Mr Henning’s family.
It pleads with those holding the British hostage to accept that he was on a mission to Syria to help innocent civilians and to see the errors of their ways.
“In Islam, concern for fellow humans and the duty to help everyone is a religious obligation,” they write. “Anyone undertaking a humanitarian act is paving his or her way to receive help from heaven.
“In contrast, the senseless kidnapping and despicable threats to Mr Henning cannot be justified.”
Using Koranic references the letter says that if they are true Muslims the kidnappers – including the British man dubbed Jihadi John – must release him “immediately”.
The leaders also express their “horror and revulsion” at the “senseless murder” of the previous three hostages, including the Briton David Haines.
And they are categorical in their condemnation of Isis – which is believed to have attracted several hundred British fighters to its cause.
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