Muslims Join in a Day of Mourning Following Terrorist Attacks

Washington -- The Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) categorically condemns yesterday's hijacking and attacks against the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and all other targets. From coast to coast, we join our neighbors, co-workers and friends across ethnic, cultural and religious lines in mourning the devastating loss of precious life, which Islam holds as sacred. We pray for the thousand of innocent victims, for their families, for law enforcement and emergency workers, for stranded travelers, and for all those whose confidence and security have been shaken. We pray that God's infinite Mercy reaches us all.

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, ISCA chairman stated, "We join the US Congress in declaring today a day of mourning and also call on the entire faith community of America to spend the day in prayer for the victims and their families who so tragically died. All of our centers across the world will observe three minutes of silence tonight at our sunset prayer. We stand with the administration and law enforcement agencies in support of discovering the persons responsible and bringing them to justice. We encourage whoever is able to donate generously both blood and money to local chapters of the Red Cross."

We also ask our thousands of members across America who are naturally born citizens and descendants of the United States to help their neighbors and communities understand that the majority of Muslims throughout the world are peaceful people and would never condone acts of terrorism.

ISCA has many times warned the nation to guard against the possibility of such actions and reiterates its condemnation of all terrorism, whether ideological, geographical, cultural or religious.

For more information, please contact Jennifer McLennan at (810)593-1222, ext. 3 or by e-mail at [email protected]

Please visit the ISCA Web site at http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org