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The Joint Council of Danish Muslims says that terrorism runs contrary to Islam, its values and basic principles and has condemned plans by two men arrested in the United States on charges of preparing attacks in Denmark.

”An attack on any target is the same as an attack on an entire society and its people. We are therefore relieved that the imminent terrorist attack seems to have been averted,” the Council says in a release.

The Council’s comments come following disclosures yesterday of the arrests in Chicago on October 3rd and 18th of an American - David Coleman Headley (né Daood Gilani), 49, and a Canadian - Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, on charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in Denmark.

“The Joint Council of Muslims stresses that an act of this type would be directly against Islam’s basic principles and core values. Any act of terrorism is and will always be incompatible with Islam,” the Council says.