AMMAN, Jordan — Thousands of Jordanians gathered at central Amman’s Grand Husseini Mosque at noon on Friday, praying for peace and denouncing the Islamic State’s extremist interpretation of Islam.
“This doesn’t represent our religion to torture people like this,” the imam boomed, his voice carrying across rows and rows of people whose heads were bowed in prayer. “These people claim they are working in the name of Islam. But they do not represent us.”
Thousands of Jordanian Muslims pray for peace at Amman’s central Grand Husseini Mosque in condemnation of the Islamic State.
Everywhere in sight, men, women and children held posters and banners commemorating Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, the young Jordanian pilot who was burned alive by the Islamic State, the extremist group also known as ISIS.
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For the most part, Jordan has come together, united under one battle cry than can be heard in crowded cafes and seen plastered on signs in parking lots: “Kulna Muath.” We are all Muath.
Jordanians lit candles in memory of Muath al-Kaseasbeh at a night vigil in Amman on Friday.
Ibraheem Shaheen contributed reporting from Amman.
