Over 1,000 Indian Muslim clerics condemn IS, call it 'un-Islamic'
[DAWN] More than 1,000 Moslem holy mans in India have ratified a religious ruling condemning the self-styled Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, calling the bully boy group's actions "un-Islamic."
Religious leaders from hundreds of mosques, education institutions and civic groups across India have signed the edict, or fatwa, saying the actions of the Islamic State group went against the basic tenets of Islam.
The edict was issued by a leading Mumbai-based holy man, Mohammed Manzar Hasan Ashrafi Misbahi, and has been signed by the leaders of all the main mosques in India.
"The acts of the Islamic State are inhuman and un-Islamic," said Abdul Rehman Anjaria, a Moslem leader.
Posted by: Fred 2015-09-10 |