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Monday, 25 August 2014 15:53
CAIRO – The top ×Islamic authority in ×Egypt has launched an online campaign correct the image of ×Islam distorted by the crimes committed by the ×Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIL), urging media sources to avoid calling the militant group as “IslamicState”.
The campaign, launched by ×Dar al-Ifta (Fatwa House), started on Sunday, August 24.
It was announced by Ibrahim Negm, a senior adviser to ×Grand Mufti and spokesman of Dar Al-Ifta office, ×Egypt's second-highest religious authority, during a television interview with Al-Arabiya channel.
In his interview, ×Negm asserted the all ×Muslims reject actions taken by ISIL which contradicts with the true teachings of ×Islam called for coexistence, protecting lives, minds and religion.
He added that Dar Al-Ifta has launched an international campaign by reaching out to foreign media outlets to avoid using the term “Islamic State” to describe ISIL and replacing it with Al-Qaeda Dissidents in Iraq and the Levant.
Negm concluded that the campaign would include launching a Facebook page against the “terrorist group” to defy ISIL claims and spread the opinions of Muslim leaders and scholars from around the world.
The world focus was turned to the volatile area after Al-Qaeda splinter group, ISIL, seized control of Iraq's second city of Mosul on June 9, storming government buildings, TV stations, banks and hoisting the blacks.
The fall of Mosul followed that of Tikrit, Anbar's Fallujah and Ramadi as well as other parts since last December.
The situation on the ground has further deteriorated after Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim scholar Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged followers to take up arms against a Sunni militant insurgency in Iraq.
Last June 30, ISIL made a surprise announcement of the establishment of a new Islamic “caliphate” and changed its name into the Islamic State.
The declaration was made in an audio recording distributed online in which ISIL declared its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “the caliph” and “leader for Muslimseverywhere”.
Earlier this month, Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam had condemned the militants for atrocities they have been perpetrating in the countries and their violation of principles and teachings preached by Islam.
Allam said the terrorists are members of a corrupt and extremist organization, describing the group as a danger to Islam as a whole.
The mufti further noted that fighting terrorism requires international and regional cooperation at all levels.
Saudi Arabia labeled Islamic State, Al Qaeda, Syria’s Al-Nusra Front and other groups as “terrorist” in March and imposed long prison terms for offering them public support or giving them moral or material aid.
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