Imam Mohammad Hadi of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia has claimed the 16-year-old alleged terrorist had “nothing to do with Islam” and has urged against retaliatory attacks.
A Muslim cleric has denounced the alleged stabbing at a western Sydney church and distanced the attacker from the religion of Islam .
Translators who listened to the audio told Sky News Australia the words allegedly spoken by the boy were to the effect of:"If he didn't swear at my Prophet I wouldn't be here... If he didn't get involved in the of my religion, I wouldn't have come here."Imam Hadi said his reaction, like “most people” in Australia, was that of “utter shock”.
Faraz Tahir, a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, was one of six people killed in the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack. Picture: Facebook/Suppliedover fears of persecution just last year and was the lone male killed in the incident, alongside five females, four of which died at the shopping centre and one in hospital.
“It’s something which we condemn in the strongest possible terms and we in no way think or can even admit this to having any association with religion, whatsoever.”
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