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UAE Scholar Says London Bombers Infidels
2005-07-16
A prominent UAE scholar denounced yesterday as infidels Muslims who carry out attacks against innocent civilians around the world, including the perpetrators of the London blasts. “Do these people not see the results of their actions? They have turned people against us ... and made them link the name of Islam with terrorism,” Sheikh Hamdan Musallam Al-Mazruhi said in his Friday sermon. “Therefore we should say it out loud that whoever kills innocent people ... is not a Muslim and Islam is innocent of him ... We are astonished at those people who justify these acts and see them as jihad in the name of God and declare themselves an authority for Muslims,” he said. “Those who do that are infidels,” he said.

The scholar said “Islam is a religion of mercy and peace.” “How does it help Islam, when the blood of civilians is shed around the world, like in Iraq, Afghanistan, New York, Madrid, Bali, Casablanca, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and lately in London at the hands of those killers and criminals ... who are falsely linked to Islam,” he said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  The significance of this is that the focus is always on Muslims as victims - note 7 out of 10 places mentioned are muslims states. Israel and Russia are not mention even though they have been the target of most terrorist attacks (pre-Iraq).
Posted by: phil_b   2005-07-16 09:14  

#3  Well y'know it seems to me that there just might be another country out there that suffers quite a number of terrorist attacks but didn't make that list. Name's escaping me now though. I'm sure he just forgot about them as well.
Posted by: AzCat   2005-07-16 09:01  

#2  That's different AzCat.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-16 07:41  

#1  â€œHow does it help Islam, when the blood of civilians is shed around the world, like in Iraq, Afghanistan, New York, Madrid, Bali, Casablanca, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and lately in London at the hands of those killers and criminals ... who are falsely linked to Islam,” he said.

Hmmm, that list seems kinda short. It's almost as if he's leaving something out. Now whatever could it be that's absent from his pronouncement?
Posted by: AzCat   2005-07-16 01:20  

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