Posted on 05/10/2003 1:34:32 AM PDT by kattracks
JEDDAH, 10 May 2003 — The Shariah considers terrorism one of the most heinous crimes, says Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki, secretary-general of the Makkah-based Muslim World League. “Islam has nothing to do with terrorism and the two do not meet at any point,” he said.
“We are saying this not to please anybody but out of our conviction that showing mercy and compassion to our fellow human beings is the hallmark of Islam,” he added. He said it was the duty of the Muslims to provide full support for the government in its fight against terror.
Sheikh Saleh ibn Muhammad Al-Taleb, imam and khateeb of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, also called upon Muslims to mind the noble qualities of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). “The life of the Prophet is full of examples of noble qualities and strong morality,” the imam said while delivering his Friday sermon.
Taleb noted that the Prophet prayed for mercy for the non-believers who had hurt him and his companions, expelled them from their homes, tried to kill them and waged wars against them. “O God, forgive my people for they do not know,” he quoted the Prophet as saying during the battle of Uhed.
The Haram imam emphasized the significance of showing mercy to one’s fellow beings, citing it as one of the outstanding qualities of the Prophet. “The Shariah is benevolence in its totality, in its objectives, applications and means. Islam is the religion of mercy not only in times of peace but also during war,” he said.
Turki’s statement and the imam’s sermon follow the announcement by the Interior Ministry on Wednesday that its security officers foiled major terror attacks in the Kingdom by a 19-member group linked to the Al-Qaeda network.
Meanwhile, Dr. Muhammad ibn Saad Al-Salim, rector of the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, rejected suggestions that his institution was one of the breeding grounds of terrorists. “Our university has no relationship with these people (the terrorists),” he told Okaz newspaper.
“We advise our students to follow the noble teachings of Islam, which calls for tolerance and cooperation for the welfare of all,” the rector said. He added that the university was revising its curriculum regularly to accommodate modern developments. More than 80,000 students have graduated from the university over the past 50 years.
Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publication of Arab News, reported yesterday that Khaled Muhammad Al-Johani, one of the 19 Al-Qaeda suspects was believed to be the gang’s leader.
The Arabic daily said Johani’s picture had appeared on the website of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) among 17 others more than a year ago.
The FBI listed Johani among Al-Qaeda suspects after its agents saw his picture in a video seized from the house of a former Al-Qaeda military commander, Muhammad Atef (Abu Hafs Al-Masri), who was killed in US bombings in Afghanistan in October 2001, the paper said.
Johani, who settled in Afghanistan in 1993 along with a number of Arab Afghans, had visited the Kingdom several times using forged travel documents but did not meet his father. Informed sources told the Arabic daily that Johani might have sneaked into the Kingdom a few months ago.
In a related development, Kuwait denied that Abdul Rahman Jabara, one of the 19 suspects, was a Kuwaiti national. “Jabara is of Iraqi origin and holds Canadian nationality. He was born in Kuwait and lived here for a long time before settling in Afghanistan four years ago,” a Kuwaiti source told the paper.
Frogs fly and snakes wear size 12 shoes.
Once we find ourselves on the wrong side of the looking glass, no statement can be deemed too outrageous for words.
It's not just "this guy". As a race, or religious group, the Saudi Wahabbi's are without a doubt tops in the bold faced lie department. A good protion of the rest of the Arab world is not far behind. The fundamentalist Wahabbi doctrine is basically "convert or die".
I suggest reading "Kingdom of Hatred" by Dore Gold. He traces Wahabbism from the 1700's to today. My personal opinion is that we are facing a monumental "clash of civilizations" and it will take an unprecidented number of lives to sort out......I just hope America has the will to come out on top. The alternative is bowing to the East 5 times a day....whether you want to or not.
What I don't understand is why you did not include all wars in Christian lands since the 1100s. After all, few, if any Arabs actually started or voluntarily engaged in warfare at all since those days ~ remember, the Turks, then the Mongols, conquered most of the Middle East and North Africa and held all Arab nations in economic servitude right up to their liberation by Europeans in the 20th Century!
Any reasonably honest person would have to agree that a millenium of war by Christian Europeans compared to nearly a millenium of no war by Islamic (Christian and Jewish) Arabs is certainly something to think about.
Unfortunately for you there are a number of Balkan sympathizers who are attracted to these threads and they do not care that their problem with the Turks was not really different than the Arab problem with the Turks.
That's probably part of the reason why the Turks found it so easy to conquer the Serbs ~ that the Serbs would rather die than cooperate with "foreigners" against a common enemy.
What term justifies lying by non-Muslim bigots?"
There is no justification for lying. Unless of course one follows islam, in which case Al Taqiyah is the religious justification. Which is what I said, and which you failed to refute. So it must be true.
Maybe he can explain then why Mohammed had a woman murdered for singing parody songs about him. He was a terrorist, a caravan-robbing thief, a treaty-breaking backstabber, a murderer and a rapist (conquered non-Muslim women were fair game for rape, and still are today). Aside from that, though, he was against terrorism.
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