Islamists issue fatwa against leaders cooperating with US on Iraq

Agence France-Presse | November 3, 2002

[HAL9000]

AMMAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Islamist ulemas issued a fatwa at the end of a meeting in Jordan Sunday banning Muslim leaders from cooperating with the United States in a war on Iraq, and branding Washington and its ally Israel as "enemies of God".

"Governed and governing Muslims are prohibited from helping the Americans who are preparing to attack and occupy Iraq," said the fatwa, a religious edict, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

Muslims should not help the US war effort "by giving them access to their airports, their ports and their national airspace, or by providing them fuel for the aircraft and their vehicles," the fatwa said.

The ban was issued at the end of a meeting in Amman organised by Jordan's opposition Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political branch of the influential Muslim Brotherhood.

The fatwa also warned Muslims against "cooperating (with the US) through espionage to help" and even banned them from "selling the American aggressor a morsel of bread or a drop of water".

The ulemas also criticised Arab rulers who prevent Muslims from "fighting the Jews and the Americans" whom they branded "enemies of God".

"Islam dictates that all Muslims must not obey anyone who stands in the way of the jihad (holy war) and that they must carry out the jihad ... against the enemies of God, the Jews and the Americans, who have shed the blood of Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq," the fatwa said.

It also urged Muslims to "boycott" US products in an effort to face "the crusade led by the US administration".

[ppaul]

Bunch of homosexuals inciting violence.

[Yankee]

I issued numerous "Fatwas" after eating a particularly fatty pastrami on rye for lunch.

Where's that Lysol can..........

[ApesForEvolution]

Scripture says in the end that people will murder God's children thinking they are doing God a service...He was talking about islam in a major way, IMO.

These leaders and their sorry followers need to be neutralized...

[Guillermo]

Will Canada, Mexico, Germany and France cite this as a reason for opposing the war on terrorism??

[Michael Barnes]

LOL...hehehe....I was going to post something similiar...Kudo's!!!

[weikel]

Since this meeting was in Jordan I assume this is directed against King Abdullah.

[Savage Beast]

I wonder if the fatwa excludes "Liberals". After all, they are the allies and the enablers of the Islamists.

[Gorzaloon]

When are we going to start whacking these Bronze-Age peasant idiots?

Everyone wins. They would get their 72 Virgin Goats, and we would be spared their braying.

It is beginning to look like islam is really a form of anarchy. There is no central authority, so any idiot who works in a date-packing cannery can label themselves an imam or mullah and make these halfwitted raving proclamations.

Maybe this is the reason the "Peaceful" Muslims have been so silent.

Either that, or they simply do not exist.

I am beginning to suspect that it is not really a religion, but some kind of wetware virus, analogous to rabies.

F'kallah.

[The Great Satan]

How can this be? I thought the Islamists were deadly enemies of Saddam's secular regime? Why, all the libs and the loserterians and the buchananistas keep repeating it, so it must be true, right?

LOL!

[Chi-townChief]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

[MacDorcha]

so now that Jews are considered "enemies of God" (even though the Koran, Bible, and Torah all proclaim that Jews are said to be God's choosen people...) by the same people who, in the same Books are said to always be numerous, but not have any particular rights above others... what do we do? Jews have the land, as the Bible and Torah promised, and Muslims have their masses, also as the Bible and Torah profess... i just don't get it. they get what they're promised, and it's STILL not enough? and they have the nerve to call US warmongering.... grrr....

[mikeIII]

If we're working our or way down the Islamist hierarchy, next on the list, after terrorists, should be these fatwa-issuing, violence-inciting ulemas and clerics.