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Dianne Feinstein a prominent member in the American Congress has appealed to Muslim Religious Men across the world, arguing that without issuing fatwas, there will be no progress in the ongoing war against terrorism.
The one question that comes to mind for someone who is not looking closely at the terrorism phenomenon, which has become globalized after the September 11 events, is: why would young people of different social classes commit suicide?
The civilized world has condemned July 7’s brutal attack on London. In addition to the condemnation, the Presidents of Middle Eastern and Islamic states sent supportive and sympathetic messages to their old historical friend, Britain
“We have fulfilled our promise and carried out our blessed military raid in Britain after our mujāhidīn exerted strenuous efforts over a long period of time to ensure the success of the raid.” [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4660391.stm] With these words an Islamist group, purporting to be al-Qā‘ida...
Thus there is no religious backing for the abduction or the killing of Egyptian Ambassador خhāb al-Sharīf in Baghdad. He was not responsible for the Iraqi misfortunes or occupation, and he did not kill a single Iraqi. Thus revenge here is groundless.
Throughout the glorious Islamic history, the Arabs have entered numerous battles and in all of these battles the spiritual leader used to ask the masses to give him their minds first before sacrificing their souls.
Muslims killed here or there are not necessarily martyrs as widely believed, as the Qur’an does not indicate that anyone who meets his/her death for the sake of God is a martyr.
The Israeli paper Haaretz reports that the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem sent the Israeli president a message in which he condemned the martyrdom operations. He said to the paper, “I am a Greek and have neither political nor national relations with the Palestinians.”
Patriarch Erinious of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem deposed Father Attallah Hanna, the official spokesman of the church, and appointed a Greek priest in his place because he had refused to condemn martyrdom operations – which followers of the Church considered was submission to Israeli orders....
The American Ambassador to Cairo asked the Mufti to issue a fatwa forbidding martyrdom operations as he considers that terrorism. The Mufti said that these issues were related to Islam and no one could tell Muslims what to say concerning their religious issues. He said that these operations are...

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