Quite true...
Posted on 11/28/2004 10:14:04 PM PST by Snapple
Stop Terror Sheikhs, Muslim Academics Demand Staff Writer
JEDDAH/NEW YORK, 30 October 2004 — Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for an international treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence.
HEre is the text of the petetion.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=53683&d=30&m=10&y=2004
Stop Terror Sheikhs, Muslim Academics Demand
Staff Writer
JEDDAH/NEW YORK, 30 October 2004 — Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for an international treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence.
It also calls on the Security Council to set up a tribunal to try “the theologians of terror.” The petition is addressed to Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and to all members of the Security Council and its current chairman.
“There are individuals in the Muslim world who pose as clerics and issue death sentences against those they disagree with,” says Shakir Al-Nablusi, a Jordanian academic and one of the signatories. “These individuals give Islam a bad name and foster hatred among civilizations.”
Nablusi said hundreds of Arab writers and academics were collecting more signatures and hope to have “tens of thousands” by next month. Among those collecting signatures are Jawad Hashem, a former Iraqi minister of planning, and Alafif Al-Akdhar, a leading Tunisian writer and academic. Most of the signatories are from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states plus Iraq, Jordan and Palestine.
The signatories describe those who use religion for inciting violence as “the sheikhs of death”. Among those mentioned by name is Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian preacher working in Qatar. The signatories accuse him of “providing a religious cover for terrorism.”
Last year Qaradawi raised a storm when he issued a fatwa allowing the killing of Israeli pregnant women and their unborn babies on the ground that the babies could grow up to join the Israeli Army. Last September, Qaradawi in a fatwa in response to a question from the Egyptian Union of Journalists said killing “all Americans, civilian or military” in Iraq was allowed.
“We cannot let such dangerous nonsense to pass as Islam,” Nablusi says.
The petition also names the late Egyptian preacher Muhammad Al-Ghazzali who, in 1992, issued a fatwa for the murder of Farag Foda, an anti-clerical writer in Cairo. Within weeks of the fatwa, zealots murdered Foda in his home.
Other “sheikhs of death” mentioned include the Yemeni Abdul-Majid Al-Zendani, and the Saudis Ali bin Khudhair Al-Khudhair and Safar Al-Hawali. The two Saudis have described the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States as “retaliations”, and thus justified under Islamic law.
Issuing murder fatwas has a long story.
In 1947 the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Ahmad Kasravi, one of Iran’s most prominent lawyers. A few weeks later, six men stabbed Kasravi to death in a court of law. In 1951 a group of mullas issued a fatwa for the murder of Iran’s Prime Minister Haji-Ali Razmara. He was shot dead a few days later. In 1989 Khomeini issued a fatwa for the murder of the British novelist Salman Rushdie.
The signatories of the petition also want the UN to order its member states to stop broadcasting the “mad musings of the theologians of terror.”
Muslims don't need a resolution from the United Nations to STFU.
These Muslim scholars are pointing out that these terrorists only "pose as clerics":
“There are individuals in the Muslim world who pose as clerics and issue death sentences against those they disagree with,” says Shakir Al-Nablusi, a Jordanian academic and one of the signatories. “These individuals give Islam a bad name and foster hatred among civilizations.”
I'm impressed.
Now taking bets on when these intellectuals are slain after a "religion of peace" imam declares a death sentence on them (in the Salman Rushdie fashion).
I think they are criticized and this is why there is basically a civil war going on in Islam. I don't think it gets coverage unless you go to more specialized publications.
It is dangerous to criticize, which is why they need a bit of help from our military.
The signatories of the petition also want the UN to order its member states to stop broadcasting the “mad musings of the theologians of terror.”
I agree. Al-Jazeera should be shut down immediately.
The imams in America are taking classes from the FBI on how to be informants.
How would you like to be an imam and do this?
2500 out of hundred of millions worldwide?...and only once since 9/11...But not enough to exonerate the "ROP" IMO. Sounds a little too much like patronizing for self-protection. Too little; too late.
have they issued fatwas against OBL or Zarqawi? I think not.
Seems like a start.
These are very famous intellectuals.
There are lots of ways to dissent. A woman who votes in Afghanistan is dissenting.
A writer who says that the Americans are doing some good things in Iraq is dissenting.
An Iraqi policeman who hunts down terrorists is dissenting.
Lots of Muslims are being killed by the terrorists because they are taking them on.
I think you need to look before you say they aren't speaking out. Also, when they get killed people don't say that a Muslim was killed for standing up to terrorism.
Islam precludes reform. The imams and adherents of that cult of death have a propensity to murder anyone who doesn't adhere to their specific brand of insanity.
Their point was that one shouldn't issue fatwas.
Do you expect your minister to get up in church and solicit murder?
What would you think if your minister stood up in church and told you to get your gun and go kill Osama?
This is the role of government, not a clergyman. We are hoping the Muslims will separate church and state, remember?
I bet the number of imams who will issue fatwas against these 2,500 Muslim academcis will be too numerous to count.
Bingo. The death sentence on Rushdie stands, but no imam will take on bin Laden, Zarqawi or any other Islamofascist.
And the main problem is that the source of the terror, murder, oppression, misogyny and slavery is all planly right there in the "holy" Koran.
The terror-inciting Imams are only following the orders of the Koran.
Islam has been a nightmare since its origin. It still is today. It will be tomorrow. Reform is impossible.
Quite true...
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