Terror in the Midwest

By Ahsan M. Khan
April 18, 2014
1 Min read
In Ahmadiyya, Human Rights, Islam, Letters
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Originally published in The Orange County Register

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As a Muslim, I offer my deepest condolences to victims of a shooting that targeted Jews outside a Jewish community center and senior-living facility in Kansas [“3 shot to death at Jewish center, retirement enclave,” News, April 14].

Terrorism has no race or religion and should be condemned in all of its ugly forms. May God give comfort to the bereaving families and bring justice to the accused.

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Ahsan M. Khan is an ophthalmologist in Orange County, California and serves as President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Los Angeles East chapter. He also directs the Gift of Sight program, a humanitarian international eye care project under the non-profit charitable organization Humanity First USA.

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