Trump’s Message to Muslims: Condemn Violence
The President of the United States, in a message on the occasion of the start of Ramadan, called on Muslims to take a stand against violence perpetrated in the name of Islam. In recent days, dozens of people have been killed in two terrorist operations by Islamist extremists in Egypt and Britain.
Donald Trump, in a message to Muslims around the world, referring to a suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester and an armed attack on two buses carrying Coptic Christians in south Cairo, described these acts as “in direct conflict with the spirit of Ramadan.”
The President of the United States, in a message published on Saturday (May 27/June 6) by the White House, congratulated all Muslims around the world on the arrival of Ramadan on behalf of himself and the people of his country.
Trump says such violent acts “only strengthen our resolve to overcome terrorists and their backward ideology.”
The American President last week, at the beginning of his first foreign trip in Riyadh, had asked Muslims around the world to cooperate with Western countries and engage in joint efforts to combat Islamist terrorists.
Ramadan is considered by Muslims to be the most blessed month of the lunar year, and its end coincides with Eid al-Fitr, one of the most important Islamic holidays.
Trump called on Muslims during Ramadan to make every effort so that future generations can be safe from the malicious violence of terrorists and live in peace and tranquility.
Trump’s meeting last week with leaders of Arab and Islamic countries in Saudi Arabia and his congratulatory message on the occasion of the arrival of Ramadan came at a time when, in one of his first executive orders as the 45th President of the United States, he sought to ban citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from traveling to the United States.
He had also described the entry of Muslim refugees into America as a threat to the security of the country’s citizens and an increase in terrorist activities.
Meanwhile, British police announced in a Twitter message that two other individuals suspected of involvement in the Manchester terrorist attack were arrested Friday night.
So far, 13 people have been arrested in connection with the suicide bombing last Monday in Manchester, and two of them have been released after interrogation.
British security officials say Salman Abedi, a British-Libyan citizen and the suspected perpetrator of the Manchester suicide bombing, was in contact with the terrorist group ISIS (Daesh) and likely spent time in Syria.
In the explosion that occurred on the evening of May 22 at the end of Ariana Grande’s concert, the American singer at the entrance of the “Manchester Arena” hall, at least 22 people were killed and nearly 60 were injured.
In the early morning of last day (Friday, May 26/June 5), in a terrorist attack by unidentified armed men on two buses carrying Coptic Christian pilgrims in south Cairo, 28 people lost their lives and more than 20 were injured.
News sources reported that Egyptian Air Force fighter jets on Friday evening, in a retaliatory operation, bombed areas in eastern Libya that are said to be a training base for Islamist terrorist groups.
Source: DW
