August 7, 2005
Terrorism in the Arab world has been encouraged by Islamic
legal scholars
"The First International Islamic Conference (that
convened) in Amman, Jordan in July 2005 was attended by a large group of
Islamic legal scholars and clerics… The conference published a series of
routine recommendations whose content has already been put forward at many
other such events. The recommendations condemned the blind violence in the
name of Islam (that exists) in a number of countries and called for
dialogue and coexistence among the followers of (Islam’s) four schools of
law and the various Islamic sects. Ultimately, these recommendations are
insufficient. They do not point to the wound and do not heal the patient
because this conference lacks the power to implement the recommendations…
"Many of the clerics and the legal scholars who attended
the First International Islamic Conference in Amman had themselves
published fatwas that incited to murdering civilians, women, children and
the elderly under the umbrella of ‘religious jihad’. Perhaps the reason
for the intensification of terrorism in the Arab world, in the form to
which we are witness today, was first and foremost the encouragement it
received from Islamic legal scholars under a mantle of religion that is in
most cases false, hijacked and defective. If the legal scholars – who have
encouraged terrorism by means of these vocal religious fatwas – were
acting properly, they would be issuing a fatwa calling to kill bin Laden,
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Zarqawi and all al-Qaeda leaders everywhere."
Is it right to condemn the West for its aggression against
the East and not to condemn the Muslim who murders his Muslim or
non-Muslim brother?
"The al-Qaeda leaders have killed thousands of innocent
people – Arabs and non-Arabs, children, women and the elderly – who have
nothing to do with the conflict in the Middle East… Is it (really the
conflict that) prevents the legal scholars from issuing fatwas condemning
these murderers and permitting killing them, and getting rid of their
evil? Or is it that those legal scholars think it sufficient to condemn
and to cite slogans about tolerance, love and cooperation, and other
utopian slogans that in reality are not worth the ink used to write them
and the considerable funds necessary to convene the festivals of religious
exhibitionism that lack decisive resolutions…
"Doesn’t the fact that to date not a single fatwa has been
issued calling for killing bin Laden and the other al-Qaeda leaders
involved in terrorist operations in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt… prove
that many of the legal scholars who claim to be opposed to the waves of
terrorism actually embrace these terrorist operations and secretly welcome
them?
"Isn’t it akin to catastrophe, disintegration, mental
annihilation, misguidedness, the absence of human sensibility, religious
blindness… for some of the legal scholars to treat terrorism with a double
standard, all the while accusing the ‘infidels’ of treating terrorism with
a double standard…?
"Terrorism in Doha, for example, is prohibited and sheikhs
demonstrate to denounce and condemn it – while terrorism in Baghdad,
Riyadh, Cairo, Sharm Al-Sheikh, Taba and other places is (considered)
permitted and also restores the desecrated honour of the Islamic nation…
Would it be right and fair to condemn the West for its aggression against
the East and not to condemn the Muslim who murders his Muslim or
non-Muslim brother who committed no crime?"
Al-Qaeda interpreted the Islamic legal scholars’ silence
as an endorsement of their crimes
"The fact that to date no fatwa has been issued (calling
to kill bin Laden) is what strengthened bin Laden, his men and al-Qaeda
and it is what is encouraging them to expand the circle of murder and
terrorism in the Arab world. Moreover, al-Qaeda interpreted the Islamic
legal scholars’ silence as an endorsement of their crimes…
"Who is more dangerous to Islam now? Bin Laden and al-Qaeda,
or Salman Rushdie and (his) stupid and superficial story, The Satanic
Verses? Why did they permit, with a fatwa, the blood of Salman
Rushdie, but did not issue a fatwa against bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and al-Zarqawi?
"Who is more dangerous to Islam today and in the past: bin
Laden and al-Qaeda, or Faraj Foda, Hussein Muruwwa, Mahmoud Taha, Al-Sadeq
Al-Nayhoum and other contemporary Arab intellectuals? Why were fatwas
issued to kill them – and they were indeed murdered – and to date no fatwa
has been issued against bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leaders?…" n
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