Dr H.A. Hellyer

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Reaction to London attacks is instructive

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After every extremist attack in the West, there are invariably questions asked of Muslim communities. The questions are, by and large, rather baseless, ranging from "why haven’t Muslims condemned terrorism?" (they have, countless times) to "why don’t Muslim report on terrorists?" (they have, and did, many times and were ignored). But sometimes, there are also questions within the Muslim communities of the West and when a group of imams in the UK recently declared that they would not offer the ritual funeral prayer for the deceased London attackers, they gave an answer to one of those questions.

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H A Hellyer, “Reaction to London attacks is instructive,” The National, 7 June 2017, https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/reaction-to-london-attacks-is-instructive-1.62708.

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Hellyer, H. A. (2017, June 7). Reaction to London attacks is instructive. The National. https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/reaction-to-london-attacks-is-instructive-1.62708

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