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The attacks and hostilities against Islam have manipulated the rhetoric and agenda of the third conference of the Islamic Sharīʿa Forum in the United States, which was held in the state of Sokto, Nigeria.
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 world is witnessing a sharp increase in the incidence of terrorist activities, especially in the Arab region. Terrorism does more than harm security and stability; it also stands in the way of economic progress and investment—and thus in the allocation of job opportunities.
Militarized Islamist fundamentalism, or what is now known as al-Qācida, is responsible for all this death and destruction. They were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar el Salaam in 1998, which killed more than 200 people, mostly civilians.
Forget words like "we" or "they". The matter involves all of us. London, Beirut, and Sharm el-Sheikh all suffered attacks within less than 48 hours. Forget ‘Muslim’, ‘Christian’ or ‘Jew’; ‘believer’ or ‘disbeliever’; ‘east’ or ‘west’. No place is safe from terrorism.
Terrorism, by definition, is violence inflicted by one group against another. In ancient constitutions, all kinds of violence were legal; history has produced an abundance of manslayers such as Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Saddām Hussayn.
It is high time that a fatwa was issued judging Usāma Bin Lādin and his disciples non-Muslims. We actually need a spate of counter-fatwas to confirm that Islam condemns violence against the innocent.
The grand imām of the Azhar, Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid Tantawī has stated that Islam is against terrorism, aggression, tyranny, destruction and the killing of innocents whether they are Muslims or of other religions.
The West is now facing the challenge of how to deal with Muslims and how to differentiate between different Islamic trends. This problem does not only concern official authorities. It involves ordinary people with varied ways of life and points of view.
All religious and atheist people agree that killing oneself with the objective of killing dozens of civilian victims is not justified by any heavenly religion. All religions assert the sanctity of the human soul and forbid killing. Suicide is a sign of how far a person is from God and humanity.

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