He further added, "If you verify you will know that I am totally against terrorism. I am totally against killing any innocent human being."[1][119][124] He opposed the move by the United States government to launch an attack on ISIS in Syria and Iraq that, while strongly condemning the acts of the Islamic State group.[4] In another lecture in Dubai, he stated, It is, therefore not correct to say ISIS or Islamic State has killed Syrian or Iraqi innocents. He said, "We should say anti-Islamic state kills them as Quran affirms that whoever kills an innocent person is as if he kills all humanity, and he who saves a single person - disregard his religion, is like saving all humanity."[98]