LAHORE: Chairman of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Allama Tahir ul Qadri has said that Islam does not allow bomb blasts and suicide attacks on mosques, public places and trade centers and killings of the innocent people, adding that the perpetrators of these attacks are deviating from the Islamic teachings.

He said this in his detailed fatwa while addressing a crowded press conference from Toronto, Canada through a videoconference He said that the ongoing wave of terrorism had maligned the Muslim Ummah particularly Pakistan. It was doubtless to say that we as a Muslim nation condemn terrorism and oppose it in its every form and manifestation but there are certain elements, who are seen extending tacit support to it, he added.

The perpetrators of suicide attacks link their brutal acts to Jehad and confuse the concept of Jehad, he remarked. This is making minds of Muslim youth’s skeptic, he added.

On the other hand, the western media was highlighting only incidents of terrorism with reference to Muslim world and does not project the positive aspects of Islam, he regretted. The Islamic view point on terrorism in the light of Quran and Sunnah be made clear on the world in Arabic, English and other languages, he stressed. Raising the arms and waging armed struggle against any Muslim government was not permissible in Islamic teachings, he added. This is a civil war and it has been described as Fasad Fil Arz in Shariah, he said. The heinous acts being perpetrated by the terrorists are a conspiracy to destabilize the country besides providing others pretext to declare Pakistan a failed state, he said.

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