Posted on 07/31/2005 2:34:50 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
The fatwa, or religious ruling, issued by American Islamic leaders against "terrorism and extremism" is "bogus," charges a leading analyst.
In a Washington press conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization called the Fiqh Council of North America said several major U.S. Muslim groups endorsed the fatwa.
"There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism," the scholars wrote. "Targeting civilians' life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram – or forbidden."
The fatwa says Muslims are obligated to help "protect the lives of all civilians."
But in a 1995 speech, the head of the Fiqh Council, Muzamil Siddiqi, praised suicide bombers.
"Those who die on the part of justice are alive, and their place is with the Lord, and they receive the highest position, because this is the highest honor," he said.
Terrorism researcher and analyst Steven Emerson argues that along with the terror-related background of signatories, the decree is missing key elements.
"Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism," Emerson said in a dispatch posted on Counterterrorism Blog. "It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world. It does not renounce jihad let alone admit that it has been used to justify Islamic terrorist acts. It does not condemn by name any Islamic group or leader."
Emerson called it a "fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate."
He pointed out officials of both organizations have been directly linked to Islamic terrorist groups and Islamic extremist organizations.
One is an unindicted co-conspirator in a current terrorist case; another previous member was a financier to al-Qaida.
The fatwa also does not name the perpetrators of Islamic terrorist theologies and leaders of Islamic movements, Emerson noted, such as Osama Bin Laden, Yousef Al Qaradawi and Ayman Al Zawahari.
In addition, it does not name terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The chairman of the Fiqh Council, Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Sami al-Arian, the alleged North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose trial began last month in Tampa.
Documents released in the Al Arian trial show Alwani funded Islamic Jihad front groups in Tampa.
Another past trustee of the Fiqh Council, Abdurrahman Alamoudi, is serving a 23-year prison sentence for illegal financial dealings with Libya and immigration fraud.
Alamoudi has declared support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Recently he was named by the Treasury Department as having been a financier for al-Qaida.
In 1998, Fiqh Council member Sheikh Muhammad al-Hanooti gave a speech calling for jihad against the United States and the United Kingdom, saying that "Allah will curse the Americans and British" and "Allah, the curse of Allah will become true on the infidel Jews and on the tyrannical Americans."
Emerson also says Hanooti is strongly linked to Hamas, having served on the board of the Islamic Association for Palestine, or IAP.
The IAP has been identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for Hamas.
One of the groups touting the fatwa, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a spin-off of the IAP.
Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.
Emerson also points out that CAIR repeatedly has attacked the prosecutions of Islamic terrorists arrested or convicted since 9-11 and has attacked the government's freezing of Islamic terrorist fronts, calling it a "war against Islam" by the United States.
Another signatory is Fawaz Damra, convicted of immigration fraud related to his ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He was denaturalized and awaits a deportation hearing.
Another signatory, the Muslim American Society, is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States whose publications repeatedly have supported suicide bombings.
One more 9/11 type terrorists attack in America and every Muslim swinging dick will have to pack up his Koran & family and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from.
Our ancestors didn't risk life and limb to make a better place for their families just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here and terrorize our women and children and make hamburger out of our families.
These butchers want a jihad?
I say "LETS ROCK & ROLL!"
And if the ACLU or anyone else doesn't like it; they can just pack up and get the hell out with 'em. PERIOD
Semper Fi,
Kelly
We did not win the American Indian Wars until Jackson drove the Chreerokee to distant reservations in strange lands, Sherman killed off the Buffalo herds, and we hired Apache scouts.
"Only problem is ALL infidels are NOT innocent, according to koran and islam.
Crush Islam."
LOL- and according to WarPaint ALL Isam is NOT innocent and therefore it must be crushed.
We are NOT deceived by the pious statements of the muslims.
That is correct!
From the fatwah rule book:
'1 - Face east and kneel five times a day, aiming butt at the west.'
'2 - Keep noses glued to the ground until the wave passes just in case the guy in front of you is lazy.'
'3 - 'Ready! Aim! FATWAH!'
Thank you for posting this excellent, revealing article! I understood immediately, upon reading all the fawning MSM coverage of this "fatwa," that it is a deception and a ruse. CAIR is demonically clever, because many Americans will read its treacherous words with belief and relief.
Now, how to get the MSM to print this article...
So, Islam has been "not killing civilians" for over thirteen centuries in more than half the world?
OK, then. Help us out, please. Just who was it and to which religion did they belong who stacked up all those uncountable millions of Infidel bodies in hundreds of countries, some of which were nearly entirely depopulated and their civilizations destroyed?
You've piqued our curiousity!
"That is correct!"
So you are what you pretend to hate, and your "solution" is to bring about the final war that would both prove Bin Laden correct and give him exactly what he wanted. Getting harder and harder to tell which side you are on, the fanatics on both sides appear to be interchangeable.
All out against Terrorism P.R.O.P.* ping!
*{Phony Religion Of Peace}
(King Prout - will you, or somebody hit those on Charlite's ping list, please?)
Phony Religion, Phony Peace, False god, child-molesting false prophet...
Why should we be surprised at a Phony Fatwa {drafted by extremist affiliated organisations} that isn't worth the $3 bill it's written on!?
Tell all your neighbors and friends, "Don't believe the lie!"
A.A.C.
"Let the Final Crusade commence!"
I do not pretend to hate islam. I absolutely hate islam and the koran. It is vile. My "solution" is to crush islam by exposing the koran for what it is: a diabolical, twisted manual of hate. Unfortunately, most muslims do not actually know what the koran say. They listen to their imams preach hate. In their fives calls to prayer every day, they call on the death to all Jews and Christians 17 TIMES!
I did not advocate more war by stating "Crush islam". There are other ways of crushing a maliciously flawed ideology, namely education for a start.
You tell me... what is good about islam, in your view?"
"I do not pretend to hate islam. I absolutely hate islam and the koran. It is vile. My "solution" is to crush islam by exposing the koran for what it is: a diabolical, twisted manual of hate."
... and if YOU were a fanatic islamic intent on creating problems between the people who desire peace on both sides, that might be exactly what you would say.
Islam is a bogus religion. Is it any surprise when what they say and do is bogus? It does not surprise me at all.
I'd say quite a few people fell for this 'fatwa'."
Only people with little understanding of islam.
LOL!
CAIR is nothing more than a front for terrorism itself, and their phony fatwa reveals just that."
Cair is like, if Hitler had a headquarters in the U.S., that he could visit at will.
LOL!!!!
No excuse me's needed ....it's part of their culture.
You said just said it all!
Their talkin' out of both sides of their ass, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to get it!
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