U.S. Muslim Scholars To Forbid Terrorism Too little, too late? Where were these scholars 6 years ago? Perhaps, if they and the scholars in Arabia, who also issued a fatwa against Terrorism had not buried their head sin the sand for so long, London would not have happened.
The fatwa , to be released at a news conference in Washington, was prompted by the strong condemnation of terrorism in a similar ruling from the Muslim Council of Britain after the July 7 terrorist attacks in London, Hooper said.
Safi, who heads the society's Leadership Development Center, said yesterday that "the statement prohibits Muslims from giving any support to terrorist groups who have carried out attacks against unarmed civilians. Groups like al Qaeda have misused and abused Islam to fit their own radical and criminal agenda, and I feel the statement is an important step to repudiating such groups."
Although the fatwa is important, Safi added, "there is a need to become more proactive in addressing the issue of terrorism by American Muslims."
The British fatwa did not name al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and neither does the ruling to be issued today. But a March 11 fatwa from the Spanish Muslim Council on the first anniversary of the Madrid train attacks received widespread publicity because of its harsh denunciation of bin Laden by name.
<snide remark>So, I guess, until the Terror reached out and touched Spain, and Britain, Terror was a-ok in the view of these scholars. I guess cops are fair game for Terrorists, since they are not "unarmed civilians"...