Muslim leaders around the world strongly condemned the deadly attacks on London, denounced "without reservation" by the UN Security Council as "barbaric".

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said that such attacks are an "inappropriate method" that doesn’t serve any goal. He also extended his country's condolences to family members of those killed and wounded.

Iraqi Prime Minister, Ibrahim Jaafari, sent a letter to his British counterpart Tony Blair to convey his condolences for what he described as the "disgraceful terrorist action" in London.

Jaafari also called on the international community to face the terror threat and to work together to overcome it.

And while Egypt is already mourning the death of its ambassador to Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned Thursday's attacks and expressed his country's sympathy to the British people.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas also condemned the bombings. "Targeting civilians in their transport means and lives is denounced and rejected," said Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy chief of the group's political bureau. 

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erikat also said: "We condemn with the strongest possible terms these explosions, and convey our sincere condolences to the British people and government."

Lebanon, where a series of bomb explosions this year sparked memories of its bloody civil war, also expressed sympathy. "Lebanon, which has been the victim of violence for years, shares with the British their pain," said President Emile Lahoud.

And Syrian President Bashar al-Assad also said: "On behalf of the Syrian people and myself, we denounce these awful actions that we condemn and strongly refuse such attacks".
 
The Riyadh-based Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a statement that the group of six oil-rich Gulf states "condemns the terrorist attacks which hit the British capital".

The bloc, grouping Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, "supports all measures taken by the British government to preserve its security and stability," Secretary-General Abdulrahman al-Attiyah said.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry also expressed its "deep sorrow over casualties in these terrorist attacks, … We hope that the assailants of these inhumane attacks will be arrested, and stand before justice as soon as possible". 

Morocco also said that the bombings "underline the need for the international community to ... unite its efforts to fight these acts and abort their objectives."

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf also said that "The people of Pakistan stand together with the people of United Kingdom in this very trying moment." 

And Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai urged the world to unite to stop violence and said that the London bombings were "an attack against the whole of mankind."

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, also denounced the attacks as "brutal".

"We strongly condemn such an act of brutality, which caused the loss of innocent civilians' lives," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said. 

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of mostly Muslim Malaysia said that such attacks serve nothing. "We all hate violence and we abhor such acts as they do not bring solutions to the problems faced," he said.

Abdullah, who is also the head of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, called on member countries to uphold the principle of rejecting violence and urged them to be vigilant.