Posted on 04/17/2010 2:27:04 PM PDT by honestabe010
Pakistani newspapers recently picked up an intriguing story from the country's security establishment. Reporters learned that their government had intercepted a secret message circulating within Tehrik-e-Taliban, the most prominent of several militant groups trying to overthrow the government in Islamabad. The jihadists, it seemed, had just added a new target to one of their death lists. His name is Tahir ul-Qadri, and he's no government official. He's one of Pakistan's leading Islamic scholars, an authority on the Quran and Islamic religious law.
It's no wonder the terrorists want to see Qadri dead. Last month he promulgated a 600-page legal ruling, a fatwa, that condemns terrorism as un-Islamic. A few Western media outlets gave the news a nod, but the coverage quickly petered out. And that's a pity, because the story of this fatwa is just beginning to get interesting. "I have declared a jihad against terrorism," says the 59-year-old Qadri in an interview. "I am trying to bring [the terrorists] back towards humanism. This is a jihad against brutality, to bring them back towards normality. This is an intellectual jihad." This isn't empty rhetoric. Last year militants killed one of Qadri's colleagues, a scholar named Sarfraz Ahmed Naeem, for expressing similar positions.
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If the Lamestream Media were patriotic they would be announcing how many Muslims were killed by terrorist each day!
This shiekh has more bravery than any of the spoiled children we have running D.C or the state media.
God bless this man
The apostate will be dead before the year is out.
Notice how the ones who proclaim suicide bombing and extoll it never seem to be the suicide bombers. Al Quada and Bin Laden’s main focus seems to be avoiding suicide bombing for themselves..
Everything’s a jihad to these a-holes. Can’t they just be rational about it and normal? Guess not!
Sweet!
Terrorists to Sheikh: We’re already there...and trying to drag you in.
It takes 600 pages to say “Dude, bad idea!”? Good luck to the guy, anyway.
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