People gathered in Paris answering
call by a Muslim leader to denounce "barbarism" of the Islamic State
militants, after the recent beheading of the French national hostage.
Imams and ordinary Muslims rallied
to condemn the recent execution of the 55—year—old mountaineer Gourdel by the militants
in Algeria with ties to IS jihadists, as country mourned the brutal murder.
"We French Muslims say stop to
barbarism, stop to terrorism," Boubakeur, head of French Council
of Muslim Faith -- official representative for country's roughly five million
Muslims —told the gathering outside Paris's main mosque.
The demonstration was "vibrant
expression of our desire for national unity and of our unwavering will to live
together".
"Islam is a religion of
peace", he said, adding it "orders respect for life".
The Leading Muslim figures signed
message published in French newspapers condemning "atrocities committed in the name
of a murderous ideology hiding behind the Islamic religion".
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