What Imran Khan says here is exactly the opposite of what is true. Muslim spokesmen all over the world not only insisted after 9/11 that Islam had nothing to do with terrorism; they also ignored the fact that it was the terrorists who again and again linked Islam to their acts of violence, and instead pretended that the link between Islam and terrorism was the handiwork of “Islamophobes.”

“Therefore, we hope to come out with a media that also gives our children and non-Muslims an understanding of what real Islam is.”

This also has been done and done and done again all over the world. There is an endless supply of smiling Muslim spokesmen who are ready to assure the public in smooth, soothing tones that what they see in the news virtually every day is all wrong, and that Islam is actually a religion of peace. Khan is going to give us more of this. Unless and until he starts convincing jihadis that their understanding of Islam is all wrong and gets them to lay down their arms, this will be just another exercise in deception.

“Imran Khan: Islamophobia grew because Muslim leaders failed to explain Islam,” by Fatimah Zainal, The Star, February 4, 2020: