Posted on 03/10/2005 8:46:03 AM PST by Eurotwit
SPAIN'S Islamic Commission said today it was issuing a decree against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the name of whose network last year's Madrid train bombings were claimed.
"We are going to issue a fatwa (religious decree) against bin Laden this afternoon," said Mansour Escudero, who leads the Federation of Islamic religious entities (Feeri) and is co-secretary general of the Spanish governmenmt-created commission. The commission invited Spanish-based imams (clerics) to condemn terrorism at Friday prayers, when the whole country will be remembering the 191 people who were killed in the train blasts and the 1900 injured exactly 12 months ago.
The attacks have been blamed on mainly Moroccan Islamic extremists loyal to bin Laden.
"We have called on imams to make a formal declaration condemning terrorism and for a special prayer for all the victims of terrorism," Mr Escudero said.
The commission has also drawn up a document designed to "thank the Spanish people and the government for their attitude towards Muslims" since last March 11, in particular for not taking "disproportionate" measures similar to those which the September 11 attacks sparked in the United States.
The commission called on Muslims to take part in Friday's commemorative programme being organised by Spanish authorities and community groups and to work with them to ensure terrorism was defeated.
According to Muslim associations, there are some 230,000 immigrant Muslims in Spain, mostly in the north-eastern region of Catalonia, in addition to some 260,000 native Spaniards who profess the faith.
I hope these guys have bomb proof cars...
Dead Imams walking...
BTTT
I've been waiting since 1993 for a Muslim cleric to issue a fatwa against Al Qaeda.
Only took them twelve years to condemn a murderer.
LOL. I guess that's why CAIR big wigs haven't done the same.
Gee, the bastards should have issued that on 9-12-01.
As long as they agree to stone him publically...or pubically!
TB
I got tired of waiting and issued my own fatwa.
If they had issued the fatwa against bin Laden when he first started his crime spree, we wouldn't have had to take any "disproportionate measures", as the WTC would still be standing the Cole would not have been bombed, etc., etc., etc.
One would think, anyway. These guys are probably toast, sadly.
What took them so long!?
This must be a formal-code for,......'OBL' is already dead.
....fatwa smoke before they 'can' make him a saint publicly.
/9-11
Oh brother. [rolling eyes] Whatever you say, dude.
The Muslims are still all excited over the reopening of a Mosque in the shadows of Alhambra, Granada (Andalusia/Spain) and hearing the dog-like howl of the Adhan there for the first time in 500 years.
It's interesting tho... as they opened it, there was a conference in Granada about "Islam in Europe" and the keynote speaker was Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, leader of Murabitun.
Mr Vadillo said America's economic interests had become the religion of the world and that people slavishly adjusted their lifestyles to suit the capitalist model.But he said capitalism cannot sustain itself and is bound to collapse.
Disapproval of terror
Mr Vadillo, a Spanish Muslim, called on all followers of Islam to stop using western currencies such as the dollar, the pound and the euro and instead to return to the use of the gold dinar.
He said the introduction of the gold dinar to the world's economies would be the single most unifying event for Muslims in the modern era.
Shortly afterwards, he said, the capitalist structure would quickly fall and it would make the Wall Street crash of 1929 seem minor by comparison. The conference also heard from Abu Bakr Rieger, a German Muslim.
He said Islam could only be practised in Europe in a traditional way, not in one adapted to European values and structures.
He also said private terrorism would find no approval among European Muslims.
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