Posted on 07/29/2005 1:22:22 AM PDT by mastercylinder
American Muslim religious scholars who interpret religious law for their community issued a formal ruling yesterday condemning terrorism and forbidding Muslims to cooperate with anyone involved in a terrorist act.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a news conference yesterday in Washington, D.C., to announce that a fatwa against terrorism and extremism had been issued by the 18-member Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and endorsed by major US Muslim groups.
The FCNA, an association of Islamic legal scholars, wrote that people who commit terrorism in the name of Islam were “criminals, not ‘martyrs.’”
“There is no justification in Islam for extremism or terrorism,” the scholars wrote. “Targeting civilians’ life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haraam — or forbidden.”
The US fatwa does not specifically address suicide bombings in a war, but the scholars barred Muslims from helping anyone “involved in any act of terrorism or violence.” The council also said Muslims were obligated to help law enforcement officials protect civilians.
“It is the civic and religious duty of Muslims to cooperate with law enforcement authorities,” said the Fiqh Council.
Already in New York and other cities, mosque leaders have joined advisory committees created by the FBI to build relations between law enforcement and their local communities.
The Fiqh Council is made up of the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim American Society, and the American Muslim Association of North America.
“We pray for the defeat of extremism and terrorism,” the scholars wrote. “We pray for the safety and security of our country, the United States, and its people. We pray for the safety and security of all inhabitants of our planet.” Islam has no central authority and the council serves an advisory role for American Muslims, who are estimated to number as high as 6 million here.
Dr. Sayyid Mohamed Syeed, Secretary General of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, based in Chicago, Illinois, said the decision to issue today’s fatwa was based on the need for all US Muslim organizations to unite against terrorism.
“We have been forcefully condemning — through all the means that we have — the act of terrorism wherever it has been. But we thought it is also important that we bring our scholars of Islamic theology together, in a clear and united voice, to condemn these acts of terrorism. This would make clear to everyone within Islam, and outside the Islamic community, that there is no basis whatsoever for acts of terrorism in Islamic scriptures and Islamic theology.”
Dr. Syeed said that in addition to the condemnation of these terrorism acts, “we have been using every recourse at our disposal to define ourselves, as Muslims in America, in term of our mission to represent the positive aspect of Islam.”
In response to the fatwa, Imams across the country have agreed to focus today’s Friday sermons on the religious duties of all Muslims to work against the dark forces of hate and violence rooted in terrorism.
“We are taught in the faith ‘to resist evil with our hands, or our mouth, or at least in our heart, and the latter is the least of faith,’” said Muslim American Society Executive Director Mahdi Bray.
CAIR also announced plans to release a TV ad and a petition-drive called “Not in the Name of Islam,” which denounces terrorism.
Muzammil H. Siddiqi, head of the Fiqh Council of North America, an association of Islamic legal scholars, speaks about the fatwa issued by the Council against terrorism on Thrusday in Washington, D.C. (AFP)
if true,about damned time...
Meanwhile the preaching of jihad in the mosques continues unabated. Donations are flowing thru "charities" to terrorists all over the world. (Lots of it via CAIR).
I suspect this might have had something to do with it....
Our MSM - desecrating Old Glory.
What a disgrace!
Can you imagine the outcry if, during WWII, they replaced the field of stars with a swastika?
I'll believe this popycock when I see moslems repudiate their own scriptures that proscribe this violence, not until.
Where were these f'n liars on 9/12. If it was in their hearts, we would have heard about it by now.
Let me see...
7/29/2005 - 9/11/2001
1411 days of complete silence regarding the SLAUGHTER of over 3000 innocent lives.
I call BULLSHIT!!!!!!
I agree
“We have been forcefully condemning — through all the means that we have — the act of terrorism wherever it has been. But we thought it is also important that we bring our scholars of Islamic theology together, in a clear and united voice, to condemn these acts of terrorism. This would make clear to everyone within Islam, and outside the Islamic community, that there is no basis whatsoever for acts of terrorism in Islamic scriptures and Islamic theology.”
Okay A-Holes give me the list of folks in your community who have been aspousing hate, you know or suspect are planning an attack or are known to have been trained in terror camps, you suspect have been trained in terror camps or are here illegally.
Give it up you window dressing, christian hating, christian killing, baby mudering PsOS.
We know you know where they are!!!
They forgot to declare that there is no such thing as a "holy warrior" among these terrorists.
Phony Religion Of Peace
A.A.C.
"Let the Final Crusade commence!"
You need to add the following figures to 3000 killed in 9/11:-
Only 40,000 people in Kashmir (Thanx to peace loving terrorist funding Paki generals & ISI)
Only 2,500,000 Hindus & 500,000 Muslims (their own religion) between 1960 to 1970 in Bangladesh.
Well... I forgot the smaller figures (couple of 100s & 1000s here & there). Any way how does it matter for the greater cause of Islamic peace.
Islamic peace slogan goes like this:-
I-SLAM, U-SLAM, everybody SLAM-SLAM!
Bingo.
Oh, this "fatwa" is a rich one, hehehehehe
This is pure BS.
As another poster stated, if this were genuine, it would have been stated on 9/12.
Also, as the same poster stated, these clerics know who the terrorists are.
They should be brought into hearings for this information to be extracted from them, by whatever means necessary. If no information is given, and sleeper cells not found, and those involved in those sleeper cells not arrested, then all these clerics should be detained indefinately at GITMO!
This is World War III. It's time we started acting like it!
To be fair:
CAIR statements on the events of September 11
"We condemn in the strongest terms possible what are apparently vicious and cowardly acts of terrorism against innocent civilians. We join with all Americans in calling for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators. No cause could ever be assisted by such immoral acts.
"All members of the Muslim community are asked to offer whatever help they can to the victims and their families. Muslim medical professionals should go to the scenes of the attacks to offer aid and comfort to the victims.
September 11 statement by the CAIR
"We at the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), along with the entire American Muslim community are deeply saddened by the massive loss of life resulting from the tragic events of September 11. American Muslims utterly condemn the vicious and cowardly acts of terrorism against innocent civilians. We join with all American in calling for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators. No political cause could ever be assisted by such immoral acts."
CAIR full page add, Washington Post, September 16.
"American Muslims, who unequivocally condemned today terrorist attacks on our nation, call on you to alert fellow citizens to the fact that now is a time for all of us to stand together in the face of this heinous crime."
September 11 letter to President Bush, signed by the leaders of the American Muslim Alliance, the American Muslim Council, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Muslim American Society, the Islamic Society of North America, the Islamic Circle of North America, the Muslim Alliance in North America, and American Muslims for Jerusalem. These groups represent most of the seven million Muslims in the United States.
http://www.cair-net.org/html/911statements.html
Thanks for your post. I will look into this in detail.
It would be nice to know if any information given by the American-Muslim community has caused the apprehension of any terrorists, or the discovery of sleeper cells in the U.S.
If this has occurred, neither the Administration nor the MSM has come forth to report it. I find this very disturbing.
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