Muslim clerics advised not to fan anti-American sentiments

Kumasi, Jan 24, GNA - Alhaji Ali Salifu, leader of the Friends against Global Terrorism (FAGLAT), an NGO-based in Kumasi, has called on Muslim clerics not to use the electronic media to fan anti-American sentiments among Ghanaians and thereby mar the hitherto very healthy co-operation between the two countries.

He has subsequently advised the clerics who have access to the media to make maximum use of that opportunity to tailor good messages of peace, which has the potential to stem global terrorism and violence. In a release signed by Alhaji Salifu and made available to the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Wednesday, the FAGLAT leader, who is himself a Muslim, called on the preachers to rather label those hiding in religious gowns to commit acts that Islam does not sanction as the "terrorists".


"Our Muslim clerics should consider the good relations that exist between the government of Ghana and that of the United States of America (USA) and the benefits accruing from it and not attempt to mar it", he added.

He maintained that Islam did not promote terrorism and that "every terrorist will be brought before Allah to answer charges in the day of judgement".