The vast majority of peaceful Muslims should not be blamed for the work of a few disgruntled “criminals”, a leading American Muslim activist said Sunday, July 17.
“The problem is that one or two criminals can create an impression that an entire community is to be blamed, and so you are always subject to those one or two people,” Ibrahim Hooper, head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “If you know the reality, you can see these handful of people as the aberration that they are – the same way that we didn’t say Catholicism was bad when the IRA was blowing up things in London.”