"Letter to Baghdadi" (Arabic: رسالة مفتوحة إلى أبو بكر البغدادي, romanized: risāla maftūḥa ʾilā ʾAbū Bakr al-Baghdādī, lit.
[2] The letter includes a technical point-by-point refutation of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's (ISIS) actions and ideology based on the Qur'an and other classical texts, using a style that is unfamiliar to liberal or even uninformed Muslims.
In September 2014, the letter, initially signed by 122 Muslim scholars[4] from around the world and was presented at Washington, D.C. by Nihad Awad of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
"[6] The MuslimMatters.org website endorsed the letter but questioned the inclusion of the signatories Ali Gomaa, who supported the August 2013 Rabaa massacre; and Ed Husain, proponent of the Iraq War and an adviser to Tony Blair's controversial Faith Foundation.
[10] Instead, it merely calls on the leader and his followers to "reconsider all your actions; desist from them; repent them; cease harming others and return to the religion of mercy.