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U.S. Failed To Get a Fatwa Legalizing War
The U.S. government has been unable to find any Muslim American organization to issue a Fatwa, a religious ruling, ascribing legality to the war against Iraq.
And if anyone knows about fatwa's, it's Islam-Online. Fred, we need a fatwa, ASAP!
This failure is noteworthy in the face of the intimidating laws such as USA-PATRIOT Act, which can serve to blackmail non-compliant Muslims.
That's right, if you don't agree Ashcroft will ship you off to those camps he set up in Montana, er, Idaho, er, somewhere.
The Muslim American anger continues to simmer, although it has not boiled over into the streets because of the intimidating laws. The popular sentiment has yet to find expression in the Muslim American leadership. According to reports, the representatives of major Muslim organizations have met and dispersed during last week without being able to craft a joint communiqué about Iraq.
That'll fix it, a communique! It's a French word for meaningless babble.
A Muslim American likened the situation to the international Muslim organizations like the OIC that fail to agree anything while Baghdad or Palestine or Kashmir burn.
Well, they pegged that one.
Apparently, Islam OnLine — and the rest of the turban world — expect American Muslims to "take to the streets" as readily as their brethren in the Third World. Since Islam is a religion of Bliss, they don't appear to grasp that Detroit and Toledo aren't Peshawar or Cairo, no matter how much they'd like it to be. And this would be entirely the wrong time for the professional agitators to try and make it so.

Posted by: Steve 2003-03-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=11958