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CAIR, the Islamic supremacist group
which adamantly refuses to acknowledge and condemn more than 99.5%
of all Islamic terror attacks since 9/11, is touting a third-party
list
of “107 fatwas” issued by Muslim
councils against extremism and terror...
Hold on. Is that right?
Could there really be that many legal pronouncements out there from
official Fiqh organizations that somehow slipped under the radar?
Well, not exactly.
We took a hard look at the list and
found that there is a bit of embellishment at play:
- Eighteen are actually
the same fatwa. This would be the famously ineffective one
from the Fiqh Council of North America that was issued about
four years after 9/11. Not only did it
disingenuously quote only fragments of Qur’anic verses (as if
the terrorists don’t have access to the entire Qur’an), but it
failed to define critical terms such as “innocent civilian.”
The council's leader is even on record as having praised
suicide bombings 6 years before 9/11.
- Forty others are also just a
single fatwa - which supposedly concerns cartoon Jihad, but is
primarily a diatribe against the publishing of Muhammad cartoons.
(Unlike the FCNA 9/11 fatwa, this one happened as soon as Muslims
got their feelings hurt).
- Six are specific to 9/11, and are
from individuals.
- Ten aren’t fatwas at all, but
separate links to the same web page, which lists a collection of
sound bites.
- Three are statements by Yusuf
al-Qaradawi,
a notorious supporter of the Palestinian suicide bombers that
have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians.
- Three are dead links
- Another so-called “fatwa” is
actually a brief quote from Omar Bakri Muhammad, who
is on the run from a treason and terror investigation. He
went on to praise the 9/11 hijackers as "magnificent” and later
advocated blowing up the Dublin airport.
- Four mention Osama Bin Laden by
name, but only two appear to be fatwas.
- Two other “fatwas” are really
just public speeches given by Muhammad Khatami, the president of
Iran, the world's leading exporter of Islamic terror.
- Another is a statement by
Ayatollah Ali Khamene’I, also of Iran, which says that 9/11 is no
worse than the bombings that ended World War II.
- Two are just Question and Answer
postings on websites.
- Two more are another case of a
single fatwa. It is entitled "Freedom of Belief and
Minority Rights in Muslim Countries," and it is far from
comforting. The fatwa not only
confirms that non-Muslims do not have the same rights as Muslims,
but conspicuously fails to condemn the practice of killing
apostates.
Of the fifteen remaining, few are
genuine fatwas against terror. Most are just published sound
bites from individuals that are mitigated by the full text of the
remarks. To their credit, some on the list do make a good stab
at the case against terror. Others are intentionally ambiguous
or carry internal contradictions.
But don't Muslims ever ask
themselves why they have to play these word games in the first
place? There are over a billion Muslims in the world, yet
there are far more clerics of this religion sitting in jail after
having been convicted on terror charges than there are sincerely
speaking out against Islamic terrorists.
High-profile Muslims, such as the
six "airport" imams (or even
CAIR itself),
usually seem to have some sort of tie to terror, whether secondary
or direct. Islam's advocates can't even put a list of terror
condemnations together (apparently) without including questionable
figures who have a history of actually condoning terror attacks.
What does this say about Islam?
Needless to say, we have full
confidence that Islamic terror will continue along just as it has
since Muhammad staged his first deadly raid on a non-hostile
merchant caravan 1400 years ago.
Go back to the List of Islamic
Terrorist Attacks
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