Rally speaks out against terrorism

A little shocking to see this at first , a muslim rally against terrorism !
It had me going till the end of the article where Dawud Walid , an Ass istant Imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad ( A mosque ) chimed in , More importantly he is the Head of the Michigan Branch of CAIR !
So I take this whole event with a grain of salt , yes maybe some of these guys a for real , but when anyone from CAIR is involved , it must be Questioned .

Freep.com
Trying to give a better picture of Islam, Muslims spoke out Friday against terrorism with national and world news media in town to cover the court hearing of a Nigerian man accused of trying to bomb a plane over Detroit on Dec. 25. The denunciations come at a time of growing concern about the radicalization of some Muslims in the West.

Chanting, "No more terrorism," about 150 people waved U.S. flags as they rallied in the cold outside the courthouse where 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab appeared for his arraignment...

Earlier in the day, about 10 Muslim imams gathered for a news conference to declare that terrorism has no place in their religion.

"In the teachings of the Quran, security is very, very important," said Imam Mohamed Musa of the Muslim Unity Center in Bloomfield Hills.

The afternoon rally largely consisted of Arab-American Muslims, but also included some Nigerian Americans, both Muslim and Christian...

During the news conference, some of the imams said they were concerned that the ideologies of al-Qaida may be attracting a tiny percentage of young Muslims.

"Al-Qaida must be defeated not only militarily, but intellectually," said Imam Aly Lela of the Islamic Association of Greater Detroit, a mosque in Rochester Hills.

At the same time, the imams cautioned against the profiling of Muslims.

Dawud Walid, assistant imam at Masjid Wali Muhammad in Detroit and head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, noted that Muslims are rooted in the history and culture of metro Detroit, saying they have lived here for at least a century.

"We have a long track record of speaking out against terrorism," said Walid, who later participated in the rally at the courthouse, waving a U.S. flag.