(Anadolu) The US’s largest Muslim civil rights organization on Wednesday condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to grant clemency to four former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians.
National executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Nihad Awad said the decision lacks respect for the US legal system and “the sanctity of human life, especially the lives of Muslims and people of color.”
“These Blackwater mercenaries were convicted of perpetrating one of the most infamous war crimes of the American occupation of Iraq. Pardoning them is an unconscionable act of moral insanity,” said Awad.
