In a speech before the U.N. General Assembly laying out a blueprint for the global battle against the group that calls itself the Islamic State, President Obama called on the world to take a stand against religious extremism. “The ideology of ISIL or al-Qaida or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed and confronted and refuted in the light of day,” Obama said.
Then he singled out one organization and one man leading that charge: the new Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies and Sheik Abdullah bin Bayyah. Describing the group’s purpose, the sheik said, “We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.”
Bin Bayyah, 79, is a prominent Muslim cleric and, as a respected religious scholar, has issued edicts to explain why groups such as the so-called Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, are misguided and should reverse course.
I was going to post this with the original article on NPR but had to register and someone else has already used my name, so I’ll comment here. There is an attempt to point to this proof of widespread opposition to Muslim terror and there is an assumption that the media is under-reporting stories like this. I’m very, very skeptical of such claims. I would expect the MSM to be shouting every such “fatwa” from the rooftops. Indeed there are some, it just doesn’t amount to what I would consider overwhelming opposition within Islam to violence. There seems to be a silent “…but of course…”
I think I just found the “…but, of course…” I just read elsewhere that Abdullah bin Bayyah also issued a “fatwa” in 2004 that permitted the killing of Americans. Well, isn’t that [I]special[/I]?
Just another example of Muslim taquiya (lying to infidels) permitted and encouraged in the Quran.