Muslim Leaders Unite to Condemn Terrorism
No seriously, it's true:
American Muslim scholars on Thursday carried out their plan to issue an edict condemning religious extremism and calling terrorists "criminals, not `martyrs.'" The 18-member Fiqh Council of North America said Muslims were barred from helping "any individual or group that is involved in any act of terrorism or violence."
OK, turns out it's it's not really true:
In fact, the fatwa is bogus. Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world. It does not renounce Jihad let alone admit that it has been used to justify Islamic terrorist acts. It does not condemn by name any Islamic group or leader. In short, it is a fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate. In fact, officials of both organizations have been directly linked to and associated with Islamic terrorist groups and Islamic extremist organizations. One of them is an unindicted co-conspirator in a current terrorist case; another previous member was a financier to Al-Qaeda. I spoke with Judea Pearl, father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl who told me that the fatwa was "vacuous because it does not name the perpetrators of Islamic terrorist theologies and leaders of Islamic movements like Yousef Al Qaradawi, Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahari, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc."
But hey, wouldn't it have been really, really cool if it had been true? And isn't it fantastic and reassuring that the press is going to continue treating it as if it were true? That's why we love the main stream media - it's always happy and shiney in the world they live in.
Speaking of Daniel Pearl and the MSM, we're sure that Judea Pearl will recieve with unreserved gladness the news from Reuters that the Pakistanis have captured the "militant" who militantly faciliated the beheading of her husband for being too Jewish. Very brave and militant of him.
UPDATE: Judea Pearl is, of course, Daniel Pearl's father. Today's lesson is - if you're going to blog in the middle of the night, check your email more than once a week lest your readers express their displeasure. Repeatedly (hat tip: Mere Rhetoric readers).
American Muslim scholars on Thursday carried out their plan to issue an edict condemning religious extremism and calling terrorists "criminals, not `martyrs.'" The 18-member Fiqh Council of North America said Muslims were barred from helping "any individual or group that is involved in any act of terrorism or violence."
OK, turns out it's it's not really true:
In fact, the fatwa is bogus. Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world. It does not renounce Jihad let alone admit that it has been used to justify Islamic terrorist acts. It does not condemn by name any Islamic group or leader. In short, it is a fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate. In fact, officials of both organizations have been directly linked to and associated with Islamic terrorist groups and Islamic extremist organizations. One of them is an unindicted co-conspirator in a current terrorist case; another previous member was a financier to Al-Qaeda. I spoke with Judea Pearl, father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl who told me that the fatwa was "vacuous because it does not name the perpetrators of Islamic terrorist theologies and leaders of Islamic movements like Yousef Al Qaradawi, Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahari, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc."
But hey, wouldn't it have been really, really cool if it had been true? And isn't it fantastic and reassuring that the press is going to continue treating it as if it were true? That's why we love the main stream media - it's always happy and shiney in the world they live in.
Speaking of Daniel Pearl and the MSM, we're sure that Judea Pearl will recieve with unreserved gladness the news from Reuters that the Pakistanis have captured the "militant" who militantly faciliated the beheading of her husband for being too Jewish. Very brave and militant of him.
UPDATE: Judea Pearl is, of course, Daniel Pearl's father. Today's lesson is - if you're going to blog in the middle of the night, check your email more than once a week lest your readers express their displeasure. Repeatedly (hat tip: Mere Rhetoric readers).
