San Bernardino shooting survivor calls attack 'anti-Islamic'

Anies Kondoker suffered three gunshot wounds during the December shooting

Anies and Salihin Kondoker (Family Handout)

Anies Kondoker suffered three gunshot wounds during the shooting in San Bernardino, California that left 14 people dead and 21 others injured.

Her husband Salihin said that the couple are worried Muslim-Americans will now face retaliation by people who connect the Islamic faith to terrorism.

"I don't believe terrorism and religion has any connection. This is anti-Islamic, this kind of activity, this kind of behavior,” he told ABC7. Mr Kondoker says that people of all religions, including Muslims, are victimized by terror attacks.

"Religion is supposed to give peace to the world. I read in the Koran and the Old Testament. If you kill one innocent human being you will be charged as if you have killed entire humanity," he told the station. "These co-workers who work for the county health department — these are innocent people.”

The couple are members of the Islamic Center of Riverside, the same mosque where where suspected shooter Syed Rizwan Farook attended prayer services.

“We might go to the same mosque as the perpetrator, but we absolutely don’t share any of the same Muslim faith,” Mr Kondoker told the Guardian.

The couple tells ABC that their family wants them to return to Bangladesh but Mr Kondoker says the only way to fight terror is “if we are united.”

Mr Kondoker added: “If we are together I shall go to visit your church, temple, synagogues, and pray with you and mourn with you about our tragedy and you should come to my mosque and pray with me."