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| The American Islamic Leaders' "Fatwa" is Bogus |
| 2005-07-29 |
| Steve Emerson does what he does soooo well: expose Islamic terrorism to the light of day. This morning a group of American Islamic leaders held a press conference to announce a fatwa, or Islamic religious ruling, against âterrorism and extremism.â An organization called the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) issued the fatwa, and the Council on American - Islamic Relations (CAIR) organized the press conference, stating that several major U.S. Muslim groups endorsed the fatwa. In fact, the fatwa is bogus. Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world. It does not renounce Jihad let alone admit that it has been used to justify Islamic terrorist acts. It does not condemn by name any Islamic group or leader. In short, it is a fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate. In fact, officials of both organizations have been directly linked to and associated with Islamic terrorist groups and Islamic extremist organizations. One of them is an unindicted co-conspirator in a current terrorist case; another previous member was a financier to Al-Qaeda. I spoke with Judea Pearl, father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl who told me that the fatwa was âvacuous because it does not name the perpetrators of Islamic terrorist theologies and leaders of Islamic movements like Yousef Al Qaradawi, Osama Bin Laden, Ayman Al Zawahari, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, etc.â Pearl told me that these groups are âtrying to perpetrate a deception on the American public.â Officials of both groups have been linked to various terrorist organizations: The Chairman of the Fiqh Council, Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, is an unindicted co-conspirator in the case against Sami al-Arian, the alleged North American leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose trial began in June 2005 in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Alwani has been named in court documents as an official of several entities in northern Virginia suspected of being connected to terrorist financing. Documents released in the Al Arian trial show that Alwani funded the Islamic Jihad front groups in Tampa. Another past trustee of the Fiqh Council, Abdurrahman Alamoudi, is serving a 23-year prison sentence for illegal financial dealings with Libya and immigration fraud, has admitted to his part in a plot to assassinate the Saudi Crown Prince, and has vocally announced his support for the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. Additionally Alamoudi was just named by Treasury as having been a financier for Al Qaeda. In 1998, Fiqh Council member Sheikh Muhammad al-Hanooti, gave a speech calling for jihad against the United States and the United Kingdom, saying that âAllah will curse the Americans and Britishâ and âAllah, the curse of Allah will become true on the infidel Jews and on the tyrannical Americans.â Additionally, Hanooti is strongly linked to Hamas, having served on the board of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). A 2002 INS memo extensively documented IAPâs support for HAMAS and noted that the âfacts strongly suggestâ that IAP is âpart of HAMASâ propaganda apparatus.â On October 28, 2000, Muzammil Siddiqui, the President of FCNA, at a rally in Lafayette Park in Washington D.C., said, âAmerica has to learn -- if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come!" In the past 4 years, several CAIR officials have been convicted of or charged with various terrorism-related offenses. CAIR has championed and defended officials of Islamic terrorist groups including Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian, Palestinian Islamic Jihad fundraiser Fawaz Damra, and the radical Egyptian cleric Wagdy Ghoneim. CAIR has repeatedly attacked the prosecutions of Islamic terrorists arrested and/or convicted since 9-11 and has attacked the governmentâs freezing of Islamic terrorist fronts as part of a âwar against Islamâ by the United States. CAIR has led protests against the deportation of radical Islamic clerics who have called for Jihad or who have been fundraisers for Hamas. CAIR has asserted that the indictment of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian on conspiracy to murder more than 100 people was âpolitically motivatedâ and instigated by âthe attack dogs of the pro-Israeli lobby. CAIR has been named as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by the family of former FBI official John OâNeill, who was killed on 9-11. One of the signatories to todayâs fatwa is Fawaz Damra who was convicted of immigration fraud related to his ties to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and denaturalized. He is currently awaiting a deportation hearing. Another signatory, the Muslim American Society, is a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States and whose publications have repeatedly supported suicide bombings. For a comprehensive background paper on the links to Islamic terrorist and extremist groups, please click here. More taqiya & kitman from the apologists. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #9 Heard an interview with one of those US-Moslem "holy men" this morning. It was great. He evaded all questions. In particular, when asked whether he thought it was legitimate to be worried about Moslem terrorists being inspired by the Koran --and also asked how he would argue that their interpretation of the Koran is wrong-- his answer was sheer taqiya: - imagine a suicide bomber in a mosque, how horrible THAT is - some people use holy verses out of context in ALL RELIGIONS In other words, he doesn't care about non-Moslem victims, and he has no specific argument against Moslem terrorists who are inspired by the Koran. I wish the journalist had asked him to explain the concept of taqiya. Then jihad, Then sharia. Then apostates. The ugly, murderous nature of Islam (submission) is slowly bubbling up to the surface in Western culture. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-29 21:12 |
| #8 The first thing I thought when I heard about this was: Is that a real fatwa, or is that a Sears fatwa? |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-07-29 14:57 |
| #7 At what point do we just start announcing that good things things happened because of help from the Islamic community (even if not true) to sew dissention amung the ranks of the villianous. Saying religion of Peace hasn't helped. Let's start hinting that CAIR gave us actionable knowledge that led to the arrest and conviction of such and such. Or instead of Cair list a specific. Make them out to be a hero. See how/if they deny they helped. See if they get whacked by their Jihadist 'friends' for helping the man. Time to play with their heads. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-07-29 11:52 |
| #6 Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money. When they begin to turn in jihadis, I will take them seriously. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2005-07-29 10:13 |
| #5 Laura Ingraham has some imam on her show right now. Her earlier comments sound like she's bought into it; I can't stand to listen. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-07-29 09:29 |
| #4 The fact that it only took about four years to get this fatwa together tells you everything you need to know. Might they be a little twitchy about the ramifications of resident boomers striking here? Slipspeak weasels will point to their great if extremely late fatwa as proof they're nice live and let live folks just like the rest of us despite prior contradictory statements. |
| Posted by: MunkatKat 2005-07-29 09:00 |
| #3 I think the problem has been said more succinctly a number of times. Basically, denouncing terrorism isn't much good unless you also denounce terrorists and those who raise funds for terrorism and those who apologize for terrorism (do I smell CAIR here). |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-07-29 08:55 |
| #2 Fatwa abuse is an ugly thing. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-29 08:46 |
| #1 Reason to indite both parties to this, the clerics and CAIR, and to throw them out of the country. Preferably from a C-130 at 33,000 feet. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-29 05:10 |