Major news here.
The problem with the article is the word "leading", which is questionable and needs further detail. How influential is this Imam among these terrorists really? I am skeptical.
Not the news Zarq wanted to wake up too.
wHERE AMONG t h e 1.2 billion moslems is just ONE with enough guts to issue a fatwa of Death on Zarqawi. Not just one of these blah blah fatwas with no teeth. I'm taking about the kind the Shiites put out on Rushdie. Not one moslem on earth has put out that kind of Death Fatwa on Osama or Zarqawi.
They do that, and someone I guess could get one of those 72 virgin travel packages that I've heard so much about, if the waxed Osama or Zarqawi.
Where are all the good moslem mullahs?
Now I have heard that in Spain there was a fatwa against Osama and they called him an apostate.
They accused him of abandoning his religion and urged others of their faith to denounce the al Qaeda leader, who is believed to be hiding out near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The fatwa said that, in accordance with the Koran, "the terrorist acts of Osama bin Laden and his organisation al-Qa'eda... are totally banned and must be roundly condemned as part of Islam".
added: "Inasmuch as Usama bin Laden and his organization defend terrorism as legal and try to base it on the Quran ... they are committing the crime of 'istihlal' and thus become apostates that should not be considered Muslims or treated as such." The Arabic term 'istihlal' refers to the act of making up one's own laws.
Heretofore we declare in good faith the following resolution:
1. That Islam rejects terrorism in all its manifestations, being the death or damage to innocent human beings or to their properties.
2. That Islam is the main victim of terrorist attacks made by some groups that falsely call themselves "Islamic", inasmuch as such attacks not only take the life of numerous Muslims, but because they also damage the image of Islam by fomenting feelings of islamophobia and serving the interests of the enemies of Islam.
3. That these groups try to conceal their deviation through falsehoods and manipulated interpretations of sacred texts, in an attempt to gain support among Muslims or to reclute new followers.
This fraud must be denounced with force by the wise people and leaders of Islam worldwide
4. That those who commit terrorist acts violate Koranic teachings and thus turn apostates who have left Islam.
5. That the duty of every Muslim is to fight actively against terrorism, in accordance with the Koranic mandate that establishes the obligation to prevent corruption from overtaking the Earth.
Based on what has been exposed, it comes to dictate :
That according to the Sharia, all who declare halal or allowed what God has declared haram or prohibited, like the killing of innocent people in terrorist attacks, have become Kafir Murtadd Mustahlil, that's to say an apostate, by trying to make a crime such as the murder of innocents, halal (istihlal); a crime forbidden by the Sacred Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad, God bless him and save him.
As long as Osama ben Laden and his organization defend the legality of terrorism and try to base it on the Sacred Koran and the Sunna, they are committing the crime of istihlal and they have become ipso facto apostates (kafir murtadd), who should not be considered Muslim nor be treated as such.
APOSTASY (IRTIDÃD) IN ISLAM:
The act in which a Muslim abandons Islam
"Kill whoever changes his religion," Hadith.
So I say again, where is the big push to kill Osama from the "Arab Street"?
Full Text of Fatwa against Osama at
http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/2005jan_comments.php?id=664_0_31_0_C