'Islam ISN'T linked to terrorism': Chief doctors group makes controversial claims just days after ISIS-inspired fanatic killed 22 in Manchester

  • Public Health Association dismissed 'inherent links' between Islam and terror
  • Urging Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to 'disavow the notion'
  • PHAA Chief said there is no inherent link between any religion and acts of terror
  • Comes after radicalised Salman Abedi detonated a bomb that killed 22 people 

By Max Margan For Daily Mail Australia

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An Australian doctors lobby group has dismissed the 'inherent links' between Islam and terrorism and is urging a powerful committee to follow suit.

The Public Health Association of Australia has called on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to 'disavow' the concept.

'The PHAA urges the Committee to include a recommendation in its report that disavows the notion that there is any inherent link between Islam and terrorism,' the submission reads. 

An Australian doctors lobby group has dismissed the 'inherent links' between Islam and terrorism and is urging a powerful committee to follow suit. Pictured, a group praying at a Sydney mosque 

An Australian doctors lobby group has dismissed the 'inherent links' between Islam and terrorism and is urging a powerful committee to follow suit. Pictured, a group praying at a Sydney mosque 

The Public Health Association of Australia has called on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to 'disavow' the concept (stock)

The Public Health Association of Australia has called on the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to 'disavow' the concept (stock)

'The Committee should condemn any politician who refers divisively (expressly or implied) to any religious or ethnic group for the purpose of political gain.'  

PHAA Chief Executive Michael Moore said there is no inherent link between any religion and acts of terror. 

'When you look at terrorism and the IRA, I don't think many people blamed Christianity for terrorism when clearly there was an overlay,' he told The Australian. 

'In fact there's nothing ­inherent in Christianity that links to terrorism. 

PHAA Chief Executive Michael Moore said there is no inherent link between any religion and acts of terror

PHAA Chief Executive Michael Moore said there is no inherent link between any religion and acts of terror

Mr Moore's comments come after radicalised Muslim Salman Abedi detonated a bomb that killed 22 people at Manchester Arena

Mr Moore's comments come after radicalised Muslim Salman Abedi detonated a bomb that killed 22 people at Manchester Arena

'Intolerable behaviour is intolerable behaviour and... because individuals might frame that around Islam doesn't mean we should accept that.' 

Mr Moore's comments come after radicalised Muslim Salman Abedi detonated a bomb that killed 22 people at Manchester Arena.  

Abedi, who was born in the UK in 1994 to Libyan parents, blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert attended by thousands of children and teenagers on May 22.

Police in Tripoli later arrested Abedi's younger brother and his father, who said he did not expect the attack.  

Abedi, who was born in the UK in 1994 to Libyan parents, blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert attended by thousands of children and teenagers on May 22 

Abedi, who was born in the UK in 1994 to Libyan parents, blew himself up at an Ariana Grande concert attended by thousands of children and teenagers on May 22 

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