AhlulBayt News Agency: The Mufti of the Akkar region of Lebanon said Islam is a religion based on the values of shared and peaceful coexistence.
Speaking in an interview with the Australian newspaper “Al-Nas News”, Sheikh Zaid Muhammad Bakr Zakaria, added that the Holy Quran has recommended moderation, ozarab.media website reported.
He underlined that Islam rejects different various forms of violence, extremism and hate speech.
The Lebanese mufti, who works to promote moderate Islam, encouraged Muslim and Christian clerics and elders to adopt a discourse of tolerance and moderation, reject hate speech, accept one’s fellow human beings, and engage in dialogue with others.
The mufti of the Aakkar region also referred to Ahmed al-Ahmad, an Australian Muslim citizen (of Syrian origin), who was able to disarm one of the attackers during the attack on a Jewish ceremony on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, describing his move as heroic and humanitarian.
He emphasized that all Muslims should be heroes like Ahmed al-Ahmad, not like the person who attacked innocent people.
During the attack on a Jewish gathering in Sydney in December 2025 that left several people dead, Ahmed al-Ahmad, a young Muslim, did not hesitate to risk his life trying to disarm one of the attackers before he was shot twice.
Authorities said many more people would have been killed had it not been for a bystander, identified by local media as 43-year-old fruit shop owner Ahmed Al-Ahmed, who was filmed charging the gunman from behind, grappling with him, and wresting the rifle from his hands.
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