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AMERICAN MUSLIM SCHOLAR GROUP TO ISSUE FATWA AGAINST TERROR
by Open-Publishing - Thursday 28 July 20054 comments
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MUSLIM SCHOLAR GROUP TO ISSUE FATWA AGAINST TERROR
An American-based organization of Muslim scholars is issuing a formal ruling, or fatwa, condemning terrorism and forbidding Muslims from cooperating in any way with those who perpetrate terror. The Fiqh Council of North America is an association of Islamic scholars that interprets Islamic law for American Muslims. As a formal opinion of religious law, the fatwa goes beyond any statements condemning terror that have been issued by individual Muslim leaders. Similar fatwas have been was issued in other countries, most noticeably by the United Kingdom’s Muslim Council after the terrorist bombings on July 7 and by the Spanish Muslim Council on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Madrid train.
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29 July 2005, 07:40
what about state supported terroism? in the name of democracy! i am so tired of people in western culture pointing fingers at muslims, calling us savages and terroists. we should not bow down to these white anglo saxons! these people have committed more murders, war crimes, crimes against humanity, than any other race of people in modern history! all these bombings that killing innocent people has always been a western intel covert operation. if you’re going to issue fatwa against terror, don’t for forget to mention the c.i.a. and the mossad.
29 July 2005, 10:11
In response to the above post. I am American. I am white. I grew up Jewish but I am secular. There are many, many Americans who believe the war in Iraq is wrong. There are many in America who agree that some of the torturous actions that have taken place in the Middle East are war crimes and those responsible should face trial. However, there is a big difference between
1) being grossly criminally wrong while trying to attack those who you perceive as trying to destroy your country with civilian deaths being at worst considered acceptable
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2) actively targeting civilians just because they are a citizen of a country who’s actions you believe are horrendously criminal.
Let’s use the example of the attacks of September 11th. The attack on the Pentagon, while horrible, atrocious, awful, and many more superlatives, was a legitimate military target. The attacks were striking at those that they perceived as trying to destroy their country. The attacks on the World Trade Center though was just plain murder. The vast majority of people target were just civilians, trying to make the best life they could for themselves and their families. Even if one argues that it was a financial support to the economy that supports the military, that is a tremendously weak argument. The same level of financial damage could have been caused by means that didn’t kill anybody. They attackers were specifically going for the highest body count they could achieve.
Anyway, this has become a much longer post then I initially intended to write, so I’ll just say one last thing. There are many, many people in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and everywhere who are black, white, brown, yellow, and every color of the rainbow, who are Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, secular, or other, who all wish for peace and wish to live and let live. I hope one day we can all see world peace come true.
2 August 2005, 00:17
Way to go, responsible Muslims! Islam can only be fixed internally. There’s no reasoning with bigoted, intolerant, prohibitionist, homosexual-stoning, girl-mutilating, hand-chopping, life-hating, music-silencing, Koran-thumping, effigy-burning, throat-cutting, disco-bombing jihadists.
And there’s no reasoning with their cheerleaders on Bellaciao, either.
29 July 2005, 23:08
To bad for you guys! Sooner or later the will errect gulags for you as they did with Japanese.
Did some of these honest Muslim scholars think their voice would be heard? Britain already starts to deport Muslims.