 Britain's heir to the throne Prince Charles has called on all Muslims to help "root out" those in their community who preach hatred.
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It is the "duty of every true Muslim" to condemn last week's suicide bombings in London which killed at least 52 people, Charles said in Thursday's edition of the Daily Mirror newspaper. According to newspapers, the four bombers, three of whom have been named, were British Muslims of Pakistani origin.
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Muslims in the country must "root out those among them who preach and practise such hatred and bitterness", wrote Charles. A "deeply evil influence" must have been brought to bear on the "impressionable young minds" of the bombers, the prince wrote. However, he stressed that Islam was not the cause of the terrorism and that most Muslims had condemned the attacks. "Some may think this cause is Islam. It is anything but. It is a perversion of traditional Islam," he said. He added: "Those who claim to have murdered in the name of Islam have no care for the lives they have so brutally destroyed. Offended by the good relations between faiths and cultures, the extremists seek to break up the communities that make up our modern, multi-cultural society." |