Posted on 09/05/2004 6:06:01 PM PDT by blam
Clerics order end to Iraq hostage-taking
By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad
(Filed: 06/09/2004)
Iraq's most senior Sunni religious body said yesterday it would issue a fatwa outlawing the abduction and execution of any foreigner in the country.
Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot are still being held
While there have been demands from across the Muslim world for the release of two French reporters who have been held captive since August 20, the edict, due to be signed today, is the most significant so far in the six-month hostage crisis.
At least 102 foreigners have been abducted since April. Twenty-eight have been executed.
The fatwa was issued by the country's committee of Muslim scholars, or ulema. Although it had called for the release of reporters Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot in the past, it had refused to condemn the kidnapping and execution of hostages from countries that backed the US invasion.
"We are going to issue a fatwa declaring that the kidnapping of foreigners in general is not Islamic and ordering that all hostages be released immediately," said Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abdul Jabbar, a senior cleric.
Refusing to comply with a fatwa, the most serious command that can be issued in Islam, risks damnation and execution.
Last week the captors of the French journalists signalled they would release them. The delay has been blamed on a US military operation against Sunni rebels in Latifiya, near Baghdad, close to where they were abducted.
What took them so long?
Qur’an 9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
Bukhari:V4B52N50“The Prophet said, ‘A single endeavor of fighting in Allah’s Cause is better than the world and whatever is in it.’”
Qur’an 9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”
Qur’an 9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Qur’an 8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
Qur’an 8:39“So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”
DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE MUSLUM RELIGION IS PEACEFUL, THAT IS HYPE. MUSLUMS WANT TO KILL US, PERIOD!
Perhaps they are responding to Beslan. No Islamic wants the frog to realize its being boiled and jump out of the pan. The heat has to be turned up slowly.
They started getting scared when France got pissed.
And two clerics were immediately taken hostage, amid
demands that the remaining clerics rescind the fatwa.
Nobody is scared of France. Probably Beslan woke them up to what they have become. Then again the frog theory works too.
The timing is suspicious. < /sarcasm >
No wonder the fundamentalist muslims ban television.
I think they realized the world was waking up to what they are. They don't care about Russian children, they just as soon kill them as look at them. They want to kill all of us, but they want us lulled. Because if the world gets aroused with us, dark days are ahead for them.
After this latest thing, I am starting to think they can all go just to hell (Muslims).
Yeah, it's nice that these guys want hostage taking by Islamic terrorists stopped. Maybe they could mention stopping terrorsim altogether while they are at it.
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Unfortunately you are probably right.
Beslan will wake some of them up. But most have probably rejected their conscience so many times that they are comfortable with the hateful rantings of Islam.
Big deal. Want to impress me? Issue another fatwa ordering Bin Laden to turn himself over to the closest American military representative.
This Fatwa has a fat chance of being obeyed. Buttheads like Al Sadr will just tell them its ok not to 0bey.
They ignore it when it is Americans being killed, but two frenchmen... suddenly it is a crime?
Wonder what France paid for this?
They can not withstand 4 more years of unrelenting attacks against their centers of "Islamic Learning"
Moscow has been enraged..
The coalition of the willing, will soon be the coalition of the vengeful.... The lunatic Islamics always referred to this as the "Crusades"....
Well, their behavior has demonstarted to the world that such a devastion may be exactly what is called for in their lands...
The killing season is ahead of us.... both for them and for us... Semper Fi
The delay has been blamed on a US military operation against Sunni rebels in Latifiya, near Baghdad
"There has of yet been no comment from their queen."
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