Recent terrorist attacks around the world prompted the Saskatoon Ahmadiyya Muslim Students’ Association to start an education campaign in hopes of ending radicalization. Aaron Streck reports.

Source: globalnews.ca

SASKATOON – Recent terrorist attacks around the world prompted the Saskatoon Muslim group to start an education campaign in hopes of ending radicalization. Members set up on the University of Saskatchewan campus Wednesday to spread their peaceful message.

“It becomes quite frustrating that our first sentence has to be that we are sorry and that this is not Islam,” said Zahid Abid, Saskatoon Ahmadiyya Muslim community imam.

It’s been a familiar phrase recently for Abid, who once again echoed his heartache after a terrorist attack at a satirical magazine office in Paris, France. Ten Charlie Hebdo staff were killed along with two police officers.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

“It was quite a sad day, another sad morning that this is again happening in the name of faith, religion that promotes peace,” said Abid.

After a Canadian soldier was run down in Quebec and the shooting at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students’ Association decided to stand up and started an education campaign – Stop The Crisis… read more at globalnews.ca