Apr 10 2007
Sunnis Set Up Fatwa Council Against al Qaeda
Is al Qaeda about to have a fatwa issued on it by Sunni Muslims fed up with al Qaeda’s mass murders of Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq?
Mainstream Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq have formed a body to issue edicts aimed at curbing the influence of Al Qaeda militants whose activities kill civilians, not only foreign troops, a leading cleric said yesterday.
Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai said the “council of ulema of Iraqâ€, set up by a founding committee of 40 prominent religious scholars in Amman last week, was prompted by a need for balanced fatwas – religious edicts – within his community as violence grew in Iraq.…
Suicide bombings by Sunni militants have not only killed Shias indiscriminately, but also have been directed at fellow Sunnis seen as collaborators with the Iraqi government or US-led forces.
Samarrai, who ran a state body that oversaw Sunni religious sites in Iraq but was fired last February for criticising Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shia Islamist, said extremist groups who killed on flimsy evidence must be fought.
“They kill by suspicion and commit senseless bloodletting and boast about it … Whoever kills a Muslim believer should be penalised by going to Hell,†he added.
Has our efforts to push al Qaeda resulted in them becoming so indiscriminately violent that they become the target of Muslim outrage? Now wouldn’t that be a huge shift in the war on terror. Wonder what the surrender monkey-democrats have to say about this turn of events?
If we can stay there long enough, maybe, just maybe the Iraq’s will want what we hope for them. If they ever get it through their own hard work they will be in a position to keep it. That has been the hope from the beginning.
Sounds similar to when Polish workers revolted against a communist government. How could a government supposedly of the working class crush a workers revolt? Sounds like the same situation here. How can a group supposed to be for the installation of a clerical government put down opposition by clerics? I love it.
The logistics of this surge should have been used all along. We let the Iraqi government have too much input into our strategies. The catch and release should have been stopped years ago. The Iraqis were not up to winning with so many factions fighting us and each other. We should have done what had to be done and the hell with the everything else. Hindsight is a wonderful thing is it not?