Fatwa against Osama Bin Laden

[Sean Smith]

So why don't they seem to have a voice within the leadership? And why arent they doing more to change that?

In fairness to them, arguing with radicals tend to get a car bomb blown up in front of your house.

 

[Atticus]

Good for him!

 

[BryanP]

Wait, any moment now somebody is going to link to an old topic full of dead links and equivocal "terrorism is bad, sorta, unless it kills Jews or something" statements by assorted Muslim organizations, and pooh-pooh the myopic cynicism of the various posters here.

If you insist.

Yes, some of the links are dead. That is the nature of the internet. Quite a few of them are still valid. Enough of them to put the lie to those saying this is the "first" time muslims have officially denounced Osama and his ilk.

 

[Sean Smith]

Let's give those links a look-see...

9/11 used as pretext for anti-Israeli rant... http://www.islam-democracy.org/terrorism_statement.asp

Denial of involvement of any Muslims in 9/11...

"Dr. Taha said he was skeptical that Muslims were involved"
"That is why they said they did not believe that Muslims could have been the attackers."
"Dr. Badawi said it had not been proved that Muslims flew the planes."

http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/wtc-distortion.html

And that was just the first couple of links that weren't dead. I'm sure some of the ones that weren't taken down (for whatever reason... I've got a site I made in 1997 that is still up with no effort on my part ) are quite nice, however.

Look, more using 9/11 as a pretext to rant about Israel...

"We condemn Israel for its escalating military campaign against the Palestinian people, including the daily brutalization and humiliation of its civilians, resulting in mounting casualties, strangulation of the Palestinian economy, systematic and indiscriminate destruction of houses and residential facilities as well as infrastructure, institutions and structures of the Palestinian National Authority;"

http://www.oic-oci.org/english/fm/11_extraordinary/declaration.htm

Enough of them to put the lie to those saying this is the "first" time muslims have officially denounced Osama and his ilk.

Bit of a straw man. The observation was that this was the first fatwa they knew of against Bin Laden, not the first denunciation. If the "Muslims against al-Qaeda" picture isn't as grim as some people here think, it isn't as rosy as the appeals to "the magic link list" would suggest, either.