The recent increase in attacks on the Salafi call and the attribution of the charge of terrorism to them: what is the guidance?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In recent times, there has been a lot of exposure of the Salafi call, criticism of it and its callers, and the attribution of the charge of terrorism and terrorist groups to them. He says: How do we respond to this claim, especially since it is spreading?

Answer:
This is the affair of the hypocrites at all times: they attribute to Islam things that are not fitting for Islam in order to distort it in the eyes of people. This is not strange at all. They used to take omens regarding the callers to Allah, the Messengers and the callers to Allah, taking omens with them, saying: We were not afflicted with this thing except because of you.
All of this is from the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah), and it is not permissible. The people of knowledge and the people of goodness: these are a benefit to society, a rectification for society, and their presence is also a guarantee for society. They are people of goodness. Why do they say what they say? Are the sins, the people of open sinfulness, and the people of violations the cause of the punishments? That is the correct view. As for saying that the people of goodness are the cause of the punishments, that is from the taking of omens that the nations used to do with the Messengers. Yes.