Fatwa Fraud?

Published: December 7, 2007, 1:48 am

Tags: frontpage, fiqh council, fatwa

By Patrick Poole The Fiqh Council of North America unveiled a new fatwa against terrorism last Friday at an event held at the National Press Club, though this fatwa is nearly identical to the one they issued in July 2005. But the most notable addition to the present document is its forbidding any association with any group of individual in any act of terrorism or violence a proscription that members of the Fiqh Council flagrantly violate on regular a basis. As I reported back in September, two of the fifteen members of the Fiqh Council, Salah Sultan and Jamal Badawi, not only attended a conference in July in Doha, Qatar honoring Yousef Al-Qaradawi, who has been listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US government since 1999, but both were noted by Qaradawi as honored guests at the event. Salah Sultan delivered a tearful speech praising his mentor, as well as a paper expounding on Qaradawi's intellectual contributions, both of which have been

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