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| 2001-09-27 |
| Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. Minaret of Freedom Institute Islam On-Line Even if bin Laden was not behind the September carnage, a declaration of war against him is logical. After all, he declared war on the United States in February of 1998. His signature appears on a fax sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi of a directive that specified "crimes and sins committed by the Americans are a clear declaration of war on God, his messenger, and Muslims" and on the basis that struggle "is an individual duty if the enemy destroys the Muslim countries" that therefore "to kill the Americans and their allies - civilians and military - is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it, in order to liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Holy Mosque from their grip, and in order for their armies to move out of all the lands of Islam, defeated and unable to threaten any Muslim" (Bin Laden, et al. 1998). If someone knows that bin Laden has repudiated this fax, they should produce the evidence now, otherwise it is a top priority for American Muslims to denounce it, and him. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |