ISCA Media Coverage
following the terroist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

Media excerpts from interviews with Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, chairman of Washington DC-based Islamic Supreme Council of America (ISCA) on the recent terrorist attacks in the U.S. View Complete Listing of Media Coverage

The Todd Mundt Show (NPR)

"But unfortunately when that [attack] happened, you know the Arab Muslims or the Arab community began to have some kind of harassments due to naivety or [lack of] understanding of Islamic religion from many of their citizens - that they are like them, Americans. So, that's why it began, and it began to create harassment; [due to]  lack of education, lack of knowing anything about Islam, knowing something about Islam. So I don't accuse anyone... but on the other side, I say, it is our duty to introduce Islam as the religion of Peace and to educate more people about it."
(9/26/01)

CNN

"I heard from Egyptian sources that the president of Egypt is worried that if an attack comes on innocent Muslim countries and the Arab countries, many people will retaliate and begin to be a danger against the interests of America. So that's why they need to have the allies of -- and the coalition of the Arab countries and Muslim countries before they do any act of attack on Afghanistan and innocent people would be dead."
(9/22/01)

The Today Show (NBC) with Katie Couric:

"This was an not only an attack on America or the West, this was an attack on Islam, the Quran and on every Muslim inside and outside the United States."
(9/17/01)

WDIV Detroit (NBC) News at 5:

"Islam doesn't teach terrorism, nor allow you to kill anyone. Islam tells you to toss a flower on your enemy in order to bring him to your side, not to fight with him."
(9/17/01)

WXYZ Detroit (ABC) Special Panel on Profiling and Hate Crimes Answering a question about radical religious movements:

"They came against Uzbekistan because [government officials] were stopping those extremists from coming into their country, as in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Algeria.  If the Muslim scholars are not condemning these [radical] teachings and ideology, they will face a lot of problems in the future."
(9/17/01)