Terrorist attacks, breach to Islam's teachings, Morocco's theologians say

Morocco's theologians on Friday decried terrorist attacks as a violation of the teachings of Islam.

The theologians slammed in a communique the terrorist attacks that killed 43 people last May 16 in Casablanca. Such attacks are against Islam and against ethics and human rights in general, they said.

The scholars said they had already said the Casablanca attacks are banned by the Quran (Islam's holy book), the Sunna (the Prophet's tradition) and the unanimity of Islam's scholars.

The theologians said it is their duty to issue advice to the Ummah (nation) individually and collectively.

The acts perpetrated by criminals, manipulated by certain people, are disobedience to God and to his prophet Muhammad and a dissidence regarding the community of believers, the scholars said, citing several verses of the Quran and the prophet's sayings formally banning such acts.

Suicide is a violation of Islam's precepts, the theologians stressed saying he who commits suicide or kills a human-being will be severely punished on Judgement Day.