The Amman Message: An important talking point against religious/sectarian terrorism

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‘[T]he best resource for those who wish to travel along the straight path in their words and their actions, and in their spiritual and religious life’.

— The Grand Shaykh of the Azhar, Shaykh Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi (may God have mercy on him), 2006.

 

The Amman Message started as a detailed statement released the eve of the 27th of Ramadan 1425 AH / 9th November 2004 CE by H.M. King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein in Amman, Jordan. It sought to declare what Islam is and what it is not, and what actions represent it and what actions do not. Its goal was to clarify to the modern world the

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi chief Malik Ishaq, the alleged murderer of at least 70 Shia and Barelvi Muslims and alleged mastermind of the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket and who was recently released from jail, is again preaching hatred and violence in the name of Islam,according to a report prepared by Pakistani officials.

Ishaq, accused of murdering 70 people, most of them Shias,had been involved in “highly objectionable activities”,