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Arabia
Top Saudi religious authority defines terrorism
2010-04-14
[Al Arabiya Latest] Saudi Arabia's supreme religious body, the Senior Clerics Council, issued a Fatwa on Monday defining the term "terrorism." While defining terrorism as a whole the Senior Ulema Council decided that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 in the United States were indeed terrorist attacks.
Gosh. And it hasn't even been nine whole years. Have they decided it wasn't the Jews that engaged in that act of terrorism?
The reason it has taken years to define terrorism was because of the difficulty to separate from liberation or independence movements.
Kinda hard to contort your lips, much less logic and reason, far enough to ensure that the guys you pray for in the Grand Mosque every Friday aren't included under the umbrella.
Included in the definition of terrorist acts in the new fatwa are, "targeting of public resources, hijacking of airplanes, blowing up buildings and also al-Mofsdon fe al-Ard (to do mischief on earth)," according to the London-based newspaper Asharq Alawsat.
What about hunting down cartoonists?
All 20 members of the council met under the chairmanship of the Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheikh and all signed the final version of the fatwa.
Which in Islam means that 20 guys signed something. Good luck enforcing it ...
I'll believe it's not taqiyya when it's added to the curricula for every grade from kindergarten to twelfth year, both within Saudi Arabia and the materials prepared for mosques in the U.S. and elsewhere in Dar el Harb.
The council members based the fatwa on religious texts from Quran and the Sunnah that all criminalize financial support for terrorism as well as any theoretical or intellectual material that attempts to legitimize it.

The council's fatwa does not only cover Saudi Arabia or the Islamic countries but defines terrorism in the whole world.
Posted by:Fred

#1  No no, only an official council can issue a taqiyya fatwa...

Oh, wait...
Posted by: mojo   2010-04-14 10:37  

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