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Bilal Rana, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association in Silver Springs, Md., said, “The sanctity of human life is central to our faith. That lives could be taken in this manner for any cause is appalling and unjustifiable.”

Bashir G. Ahmed of the Islamic Council of Ohio, said in a statement that the council “strongly condemns the horrible attack. … Our sympathies go toward all the families who lost their loved ones and pray for the speedy recovery of those who were injured. This attack was totally unIslamic, is against all the principles that Islam stands for and is being condemned by the entire Muslim world.”

he Fatemah Islamic Center statement included a quotation from the Qur’an: “Whoever kills a soul unless for murder or for corruption in the land, it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one, it is …read more at toledoblade.com