"Robert Houghton" <robert45@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> ...
> It is not only Islamic radicals who have expressed their sup****t for
> suicide
> terrorism, many mainstream Muslim leaders have done so too.
> No fatwah condemning the suicide atrocity of 9 September 2001 was ssued.
<snip> ...
Comment:-
Haven't you have been duped again by this fanciful myth that's echoed
repeatedly over on the thoroughly untrustworthy "Apocalyptic Blogosphere"?
Don't you do any independent research into these lies, distortions and
dissimulations before posting messages to this forum? If you were
diligent,
wouldn't a superficial search into this subject in Google immediately
debunk
this false information and half-truths?
Didn't you bother to read these these previous "speaking out" threads in
this forum or follow and of the links contained in these posts:-
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.religion.islam/browse_frm/thread/fde3d00ecb506697/fdf27d10b054fb3d?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=speaking+out#fdf27d10b054fb3d
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.religion.islam/browse_frm/thread/30b0059c9e134cc5/1120a9a1fa6e02d3?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=speaking+out#1120a9a1fa6e02d3
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.religion.islam/browse_frm/thread/4a1e251aeb3073b2/9aca4510e9498fdf?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=speaking+out#9aca4510e9498fdf
Didn't you also fail visit this previously supplied "Wa****ngton Post" -
"On
Faith" and "Muslims Speak Out" link:-
http://newsweek.wa****ngtonpost.com/onfaith/projects/muslimsspeakout/index.html
<Project Background> ...
Back in April, "On Faith" and Georgetown University co-sponsored a panel
discussion on "What It Means to Be Muslim in America." During that event,
Georgetown's Imam Yahya Hendi questioned why U.S. media rarely
acknowledged
condemnations of violence and terrorism by Muslim leaders. His question
prompted "On Faith" co-moderator Sally Quinn to propose devoting a full
week
of "On Faith" to a discussion among Muslim scholars and authorities on
Islam's views on violence, human rights, and interfaith relations.
"Muslims
Speak Out" is that week-long, online discussion.
"On Faith" and Georgetown University asked nearly 60 Muslim leaders from
around the world to participate by responding to questions on the three
topics. About a third of the leaders agreed to do so, and their answers
will
be featured in the coming days.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life provided analysis of public
opinion
surveys. A number of the world's most prominent voices - including former
President Jimmy Carter, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and
Nobel
Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus -- will offer their perspective. And readers
will be encouraged to add their questions and comments to the mix.
"On Faith" and "Muslims Speak Out" are efforts by the Wa****ngton Post
Company to foster informative and productive online conversations about
religion and its impact on world events and our lives. We believe that
such
conversations are critical if we are to begin to address the many
conflicts
being waged today in the name of faith.
<End background> ...
At a more serious and sober academic level, according to Charles Kurzman -
Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on
his
informative and illuminating website he publishes an extensive list of
"Islamic Statements Against Terrorism" from a host of reliable sources :-
http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/terror.htm
<Brief extract> ...
Mustafa Mashhur, General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt; Qazi Hussain
Ahmed, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Pakistan; Muti Rahman Nizami,
Ameer,
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Bangladesh; Shaykh Ahmad Yassin, Founder,
Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Palestine; Ra****d Ghannou****,
President, Nahda Renaissance Movement, Tunisia; Fazil Nour, President, PAS
-
Parti Islam SeMalaysia, Malaysia; and 40 other Muslim scholars and
politicians:
"The undersigned, leaders of Islamic movements, are horrified by the
events
of Tuesday 11 September 2001 in the United States which resulted in
massive
killing, destruction and attack on innocent lives. We express our deepest
sympathies and sorrow. We condemn, in the strongest terms, the incidents,
which are against all human and Islamic norms. This is grounded in the
Noble
Laws of Islam which forbid all forms of attacks on innocents. God Almighty
says in the Holy Qur'an: 'No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of
another' (Surah al-Isra 17:15)."
MSANews, September 14, 2001,
http://msanews.mynet.net/MSANEWS/200109/20010917.15.html;
Arabic original in al-Quds al-Arabi (London), September 14, 2001, p. 2,
http://www.alquds.co.uk/Alquds/2001/09Sep/14%20Sep%20Fri/Quds02.pdf
Shaykh Yusuf Qaradawi, Qatar; Tariq Bishri, Egypt; Muhammad S. Awwa,
Egypt;
Fahmi Huwaydi, Egypt; Haytham Khayyat, Syria; Shaykh Taha Jabir al-Alwani,
U.S.:
"All Muslims ought to be united against all those who terrorize the
innocents, and those who permit the killing of non-combatants without a
justifiable reason. Islam has declared the spilling of blood and the
destruction of property as absolute prohibitions until the Day of
Judgment.
... [It is] necessary to apprehend the true perpetrators of these crimes,
as
well as those who aid and abet them through incitement, financing or other
sup****t. They must be brought to justice in an impartial court of law and
[punished] appropriately. ... [It is] a duty of Muslims to participate in
this effort with all possible means."
Statement of September 27, 2001. The Wa****ngton Post, October 11, 2001,
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40545-2001Oct10.html
Full text of this fatwa in English and Arabic.
Shaykh Muhammed Sayyid al-Tantawi, imam of al-Azhar mosque in Cairo,
Egypt:
"Attacking innocent people is not courageous, it is stupid and will be
punished on the day of judgement. ... It's not courageous to attack
innocent
children, women and civilians. It is courageous to protect freedom, it is
courageous to defend oneself and not to attack."
Agence France Presse, September 14, 2001
Abdel-Mo'tei Bayyoumi, al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy, Cairo, Egypt:
"There is no terrorism or a threat to civilians in jihad [religious
struggle]."
Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 20 - 26 September 2001,
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/552/p4fall3.htm
Muslim Brotherhood, an opposition Islamist group in Egypt, said it was
"horrified" by the attack and expressed "condolences and sadness":
"[We] strongly condemn such activities that are against all humanist and
Islamic morals. ... [We] condemn and oppose all aggression on human life,
freedom and dignity anywhere in the world."
Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 13 - 19 September 2001,
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/551/fo2.htm
Shaykh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual guide of ****'i Muslim
radicals
in Lebanon, said he was "horrified" by these "barbaric ... crimes":
"Beside the fact that they are forbidden by Islam, these acts do not serve
those who carried them out but their victims, who will reap the sympathy
of
the whole world. ... Islamists who live according to the human values of
Islam could not commit such crimes."
Agence France Presse, September 14, 2001
'Abdulaziz bin 'Abdallah Al-Ashaykh, chief mufti of Saudi Arabia:
"Firstly: the recent developments in the United States including hijacking
planes, terrorizing innocent people and shedding blood, constitute a form
of
injustice that cannot be tolerated by Islam, which views them as gross
crimes and sinful acts. Secondly: any Muslim who is aware of the teachings
of his religion and who adheres to the directives of the Holy Qur'an and
the
sunnah (the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad) will never involve himself
in
such acts, because they will invoke the anger of God Almighty and lead to
harm and corruption on earth."
Statement of September 15, 2001,
http://saudiembassy.net/press_release/01-spa/09-15-Islam.htm
'Abdulaziz bin 'Abdallah Al-Ashaykh, chief mufti of Saudi Arabia:
"You must know Islam's firm position against all these terrible crimes.
The
world must know that Islam is a religion of peace and mercy and goodness;
it
is a religion of justice and guidance.Islam has forbidden violence in all
its forms. It forbids the hijacking airplanes, ****ps and other means of
trans****t, and it forbids all acts that undermine the security of the
innocent."
Hajj sermon of February 2, 2004, in "Public Statements by Senior Saudi
Officials Condemning Extremism and Promoting Moderation," May 2004,
http://www.saudiembassy.net/Re****tLink/Re****t_Extremism_May04.pdf,
page 10
Shaikh Saleh Al-Luheidan, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Saudi
Arabia:
"As a human community we must be vigilant and careful to oppose these
pernicious and shameless evils, which are not justified by any sane logic,
nor by the religion of Islam."
Statement of September 14, 2001, in "Public Statements by Senior Saudi
Officials Condemning Extremism and Promoting Moderation," May 2004,
http://www.saudiembassy.net/Re****tLink/Re****t_Extremism_May04.pdf,
page 6
Shaikh Saleh Al-Luheidan, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, Saudi
Arabia:
"And I repeat once again: that this act that the United states was
afflicted
with, with this vulgarity and barbarism, and which is even more barbaric
than terrorist acts, I say that these acts are from the depths of
depravity
and the worst of evils."
Televised statement of September 2001, in Muhammad ibn Hussin Al-Qahtani,
editor, The Position of Saudi Muslim Scholars Regarding Terrorism in the
Name of Islam (Saudi Arabia, 2004), pages 27-28.
Shaykh Muhammad bin 'Abdallah al-Sabil, member of the Council of Senior
Religious Scholars, Saudi Arabia:
"Any attack on innocent people is unlawful and contrary to shari'a
(Islamic
law). ... Muslims must safeguard the lives, honor and property of
Christians
and Jews. Attacking them contradicts shari'a."
Agence France Presse, December 4, 2001
Council of Saudi 'Ulama', fatwa of February 2003:
"What is happening in some countries from the shedding of the innocent
blood
and the bombing of buildings and ****ps and the destruction of public and
private installations is a criminal act against Islam. ... Those who carry
out such acts have the deviant beliefs and misleading ideologies and are
responsible for the crime. Islam and Muslims should not be held
responsible
for such actions."
The Dawn newspaper, Karachi, Pakistan, February 8, 2003,
http://www.dawn.com/2003/02/08/top17.htm;
also in "Public Statements by
Senior Saudi Officials Condemning Extremism and Promoting Moderation," May
2004, http://www.saudiembassy.net/Re****tLink/Re****t_Extremism_May04.pdf,
page 10
And so on ....
<End extract> ...
Another independent digest can be discovered from the listed, Muslim
participants and Islamic authorities, at this "The Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University " link:-
http://religiondatabases.georgetown.edu/berkley/muslimsspeakout.php
<Quote> ...
Participants
Taha Jabir al-Alwani
Abdullah al-Askar
Sheikh Majid al-Hafeed
Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri
Abdullah al-Tayer
Mustafa Ceric
Khalid al-Dakhil
Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah
Javed Ahmed Ghamidi
Sheikh Ra****d Ghannou****
Ali Gomaa
Usama Hasan
Murad Wilfried Hofmann
Merve Kavakci
Amr Khaled
Humera Khan
Muhammad Khalid Masud
Dheya Mosawi
Abdul Munir Mulkhan
Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad
Chandra Muzaffar
Tariq Ramadan
Muzzamil Siddiqi
Ahmad Turkistani
Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid
Khalid Zaheer
<Unquote> ...
Intelligent readers can freely check these out for themselves before
unthinkingly accepting the disinformation in your unscrupulous message.
--
Peace
--
For malice will with joy the lie receive, Re****t, and what it wishes true
believe. [Rev. Thomas Yalden]
Zuiko Azumazi.
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