Newsday: U.S. Clerics Issue Anti-Terror Edict

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U.S. clerics issue anti-terror edict
BY MARTIN C. EVANS
newsday.com supplemented with wireservices reports
July 29, 2005

The nation's leading group of Islamic scholars, speaking with a single voice for the first time since Sept. 11, has issued a formal condemnation of terrorism, urging America's more than 2 million Muslims to cooperate with law enforcement agencies in ferreting out would-be terrorists.

"Targeting civilians' life and property through suicide bombings or any other method of attack is haram - or forbidden - and those who commit these barbaric acts are criminals, not martyrs," read a release by the 18-member Fiqh Council of North America.

The condemnation came in a fatwa, a formal opinion that carries great weight in the Islamic world when handed down by respected religious leaders.

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"The difference between this and all the pronouncements you've heard in the past is these are pretty much the leading scholars in North America," said Dr. Faroque Khan, a board member of the Islamic Society of North America and past president of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury. "Individually, they have all expressed their condemnation, but this is the first time they have done it as a group."

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. Funny, I don't remember

Christian leaders getting together to issue edicts condemning the bombing of health clinics or other acts of terrorism conducted by fanatical Christians.

[Ian David]

2. Good point. And I don't see a fatwah in favor of gay and women's rights

This "condemnation" is nothing more than creating "plausible deniability."

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) has ties to terrorism. Coming from them, this is ridiculous.

Terrorism is bad, m'kay? Don't do terrorism, m'kay? It's bad, m'kay?