The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, July 28, 2005
American Muslims speak out against terror
Glenn Reynolds notices that the American Muslim community is starting to speak out against terror as a means to any end, and by calling those who employ it "criminals, not martyrs." :
It's not just the Cairo protest that I mention below, there are more signs of progress from the Muslim community, at long last. Here's one:
Following deadly bombings in Britain and other nations, American Muslim scholars issued an edict Thursday condemning religious extremism and calling terrorists "criminals, not martyrs."
Many Muslim leaders overseas have made similar statements in recent weeks, but some have left an opening for violence to be used in certain situations. One group of British Muslim leaders who denounced the July 7 attacks in London said suicide bombings could still be justified against an occupying power — drawing criticism that itinvited violence in Iraq, where civilians along with coalitiontroops have been killed.
However, the U.S. scholars said in a Washington news conference that their prohibition applied to attacks on civilians everywhere. Their fatwa states that Muslims are obligated to help law enforcement authorities "protect the lives of all civilians."
About time, and the (relative) absence of weasel-wording is nice. But for really strong language you have to look to the people who are actually confronting the suicide bombers. Austin Bay reprints an editorial from the Iraqi newspaper Al Adala:
The eye-catching aspect is that there are states and leaders behind the terrorists' networks, as well as mass media establishments and personalities, who don't feel shame for supporting those terrorist organizations with the excuse of gaining a victory for Islam. Despite that, they have political schizophrenia in their contradicting stances, since sometimes they claim their commitment to human rights and to combating terror. On the other hand, they support those criminal movements which spread like a disease. At the same time, they adhere to improving relations with the European states, and yet they encourage those organizations to harm or destroy European countries.
Those organizations are also supported by the Arab satellite channels and journalists, who rely on European support and are strengthened by European democracy, and then they call to kill the innocents, and they praise the killers and criminals under the guise of glorifying Islam and the Muslims. These badly twisted people express the deterioration in the political behavior.
Indeed it is, and it's nice to see more people noticing.
And it is also great that, at long last, center-right voices like Reynolds are being heard more regularly in the mainstream media.
Charles Johnson also has reports of progress with Moderate Muslims.
It's not just the Cairo protest that I mention below, there are more signs of progress from the Muslim community, at long last. Here's one:
Following deadly bombings in Britain and other nations, American Muslim scholars issued an edict Thursday condemning religious extremism and calling terrorists "criminals, not martyrs."
Many Muslim leaders overseas have made similar statements in recent weeks, but some have left an opening for violence to be used in certain situations. One group of British Muslim leaders who denounced the July 7 attacks in London said suicide bombings could still be justified against an occupying power — drawing criticism that itinvited violence in Iraq, where civilians along with coalitiontroops have been killed.
However, the U.S. scholars said in a Washington news conference that their prohibition applied to attacks on civilians everywhere. Their fatwa states that Muslims are obligated to help law enforcement authorities "protect the lives of all civilians."
About time, and the (relative) absence of weasel-wording is nice. But for really strong language you have to look to the people who are actually confronting the suicide bombers. Austin Bay reprints an editorial from the Iraqi newspaper Al Adala:
The eye-catching aspect is that there are states and leaders behind the terrorists' networks, as well as mass media establishments and personalities, who don't feel shame for supporting those terrorist organizations with the excuse of gaining a victory for Islam. Despite that, they have political schizophrenia in their contradicting stances, since sometimes they claim their commitment to human rights and to combating terror. On the other hand, they support those criminal movements which spread like a disease. At the same time, they adhere to improving relations with the European states, and yet they encourage those organizations to harm or destroy European countries.
Those organizations are also supported by the Arab satellite channels and journalists, who rely on European support and are strengthened by European democracy, and then they call to kill the innocents, and they praise the killers and criminals under the guise of glorifying Islam and the Muslims. These badly twisted people express the deterioration in the political behavior.
Indeed it is, and it's nice to see more people noticing.
And it is also great that, at long last, center-right voices like Reynolds are being heard more regularly in the mainstream media.
Charles Johnson also has reports of progress with Moderate Muslims.
