{"id":633627,"date":"2025-12-15T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633627\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:27:23","slug":"not-in-the-name-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/633627\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Not in the name of Islam’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sydney<\/p>\n

Sydney Muslim leaders refuse to receive Bondi Beach shooter\u2019s body: ‘Not in the name of Islam’<\/p>\n

Muslims community leaders in Sydney have refused to receive the Bondi Beach shooter\u2019s body. The attackers were identified as father and son Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24.<\/p>\n

The horrific attack resulted in 16 deaths so far and 42 people were injured including two police officers, who are in serious but stable condition. <\/p>\n

Sajid was killed on the spot and Naveed was taken to hospital after being shot by police. <\/p>\n

Muslim leaders declared the perpetrators outside the fold of Islam and refused to receive the shooter’s body and perform the religious ritual. <\/p>\n

Prominent Sydney Islamic leader Dr Jamal Rifi said, \u201cWe do not condone the killing of civilians in any form.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Dr<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dr Jamal Rifi<\/p>\n

He cited a verse from the Qur\u2019an: \u201cKilling an innocent civilian is the same as killing all humanity,\u201d adding, \u201cWe would refuse to accept his body in any Muslim section of the Rockwood cemetery.\u201d <\/p>\n

Naveed Akram\u2019s former Islamic teacher Sheikh Adam Ismail has also condemned the incident, stating, \u201cI am devastated by the images of the victims. I have received death threats and my family had to evacuate our home. We are thankful for the assistance from security officials.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Sheikh<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sheikh Adam Ismail (left)<\/p>\n

However, in an apparent retaliatory act following the shooting, a horrific Islamophobic act was carried out at Narellan Cemetery in Camden. Pig heads were thrown onto Muslim graves. <\/p>\n

Prominent Muslim undertaker Ahmad Hraichie condemned the act, stating, \u201cWhoever did this has done nothing except proven their hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney Muslim leaders refuse to receive Bondi Beach shooter\u2019s body: ‘Not in the name of Islam’ Muslims community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-633627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115722876221865991","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}