@Muhammad Ali

[Yorktown]

14. I wish he were right. But some Muslim clerics or Islam analysts disagree with him.

I remember a Muslim cleric who stated that the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris were 'unislamic', but that the Charlie Hebdo drawings themselves were a more serious crime than the shooting.
In Islam, people who blaspheme are enemies of Islam, therefore NOT innocent.
It is stated as such in the Quran, and made perfectly explicit in the hadiths.

As for the Paris attacks of November, Sam Wood did a step-by-step analysis of how to theologically justify them from an islamic perspective: the bystanders paid taxes in France, financing the French Army which was attacking the ISIS 'caliphate' = enemies of Islam = NOT innocent.

So, Ali's sentence, well meaning as it is, carries little weight for literalist Muslims.