*ISLAMABAD – Muslims are crushed by governments using the words ‘Islamicterrorism’, believes Prime Minister Imran Khan.*
He said this while addressing the Islamic Society of North America inHouston via video link on Sunday morning. Like any community, there aremoderates, radicals, intellectuals and extremists but there is only oneIslam, he said, which is why it hurts when people use terms like ‘radicalMuslim’ or ‘Islamic terrorism’ or ‘Muslim extremist’. Using the wordIslamic terrorism creates Islamophobia, said the prime minister.
They don’t view religion like we do, he said of people in the west. He saidafter spending years in England, he found that the way people there talkabout religion, they just don’t understand how Muslims love and respecttheir prophet and how much it affects them when he is ridiculed.
“We must sensitize them about this,” he said. You can’t use freedom ofspeech to hurt the sentiments of 1.3 billion people, he said.
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We must tell the people in western countries that there is only one Islam,the Islam of the Holy Prophet (pbuh), he said. It becomes difficult for theaverage man on the street to distinguish between moderate Muslims andradicals, he said, adding that the whole Muslim community is tainted bythis.
