CIC regrets the killings of innocent people in these four acts of violence. Human life is scared, irrespective of origin, race, color, religion or citizenship. The life of a citizen of Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, or Afghanistan, is as valuable as the life of a citizen of the United States of America. Human suffering is abundant as a result of natural disasters the world over. The world needs no one, a group or a government, to manufacture death, human misery, poverty and destruction.
Acts of violence are against Canadian values.
Muslim Canadians are against acts of violence by groups or by governments. Such acts do not lead to a better world. CIC reminds politicians and media professionals that the association of violent acts with any religion constitutes a psychological and emotional assault on all peace-loving adherents to that religion. No religion teaches, endorses or condones acts of violence. The militant face of Islam rises from a Punjab wheat field, in a quiet campus of lecture halls, dormitories and a mosque.