Posted on 12/28/2007 5:41:45 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
With counter-terrorism agencies keeping a close eye on radical imams, moderate leaders fear impressionable young followers are seeking religious orders from other sources.
The concern centres on overseas-based websites issuing personal fatwas -- religious decrees -- on jihad or fighting in the name of Islam.
Senior Islamic leader Ameer Ali warned that it was difficult to ascertain the qualifications and identity of the clerics issuing the dangerous rulings.
The Australian Federal Police is investigating Somali community figures accused of encouraging young men to return to their war-torn homeland and fight alongside Islamic jihadists.
Dr Ali said young Muslims who embraced the information age and turned to the internet for answers to their religious questions were at risk of being captured by radical Islamist websites.
There were thousands of websites issuing fatwas by email that undermined the traditional form of obtaining religious rulings from a local mufti or cleric, he said.
"I have seen fatwas coming from South Africa, from India, from Pakistan, and we don't know who these people are," Dr Ali said. "Their credentials are not verified and what their educational background is. If you ask to go and fight overseas, they may say yes."
The former member of the Howard government's Muslim reference board called on local imams to warn their followers against shopping around for fatwas on the internet.
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Work on that "religion of peace" stuff you're always talking about!
Kids looking for a cause finding a cause looking for kids.
That sums it up...Very nicely.
Now, what's this thread about and what were they charged with?
That shirt must drive the burka covered crowd nuts in the malls. LOL! ;-)
Where do I get one of those?
I have no clue...Liked the message so much, I airbrushed a hoodie for myself.
If you’re the imam where is your FATWAH? FATWAH!...we don’t have to issue any steeeekin’ FATWAH!
(in cases of confusion consult your Quran.)
Sheeesh, what’s next? Drive thru-fatwas? /sarcasm
Yes, were do we get these? Laughing my mohammed off!!!! Got to have one.
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for some black ops.
Fatwa on all the imam’s with beards.
fatwa spam
Can we make some money here, like a carbon credit scam.
‘For $9.99 a month , you can be guilt free and participate in a fatwa’. All credit cards excepted
So why doesn’t someone on our side start a counterfit site with fatwas on fatwas?
Or fatwas on al qaeda?
/grin
sure it would.
it wouldn’t be on my space or utube but I’m sure there are people in the gov that would be able to create one.
undercover doesn’t mean that nobody knows about it. There can’t be any operation that noone knows about.
Some one has to know about it but target it to the jihadis.
www.fatwa.jihad.org
The girl or the shirt?
Maybe it should be:
www.fatwa.jihad.com
since .org is reserved for non-prophet organizations.
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