Finally!: UK Fatwa to Call Bombers Unbelievers, If Proved Muslims

(London) "UK Fatwa to Call Bombers Unbelievers, If Proved Muslims

Sir Iqbal Sacranie enjoys the favor of Queen and Parliament, and he is ready to go after the London bombers with both rhetorical barrels blazing. From IslamOnline, with thanks to The One Who Must Not Be Named:

CAIRO, July 10, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – Britain’s top Muslim scholars are drafting a fatwa stripping those behind the grisly London blasts, if proved Muslims, from the right to call themselves Muslims, a leading British newspaper said Sunday, July 10.

Signed by dozens of prominent Muslim bodies, mosques, Islamic scholars and community groups, the religious edict will brand the attacks as a breach of the most basic tenets of Islam, reported The Independent.

'If these bombers are found to be Muslims, we will make it clear we utterly dissociate ourselves from them - even if they claim to be Muslims or are acting under the mantle of the Islamic faith. We reject that utterly,' said the official spokesman of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

A sign of the deep divisions within the Islamic community is that reaction within secret passworded Muslims-only websites was not uniformly favorable. These come from a discussion under the title UMMAH NEWS on one Islamic forum:" More...

Finally the rational elements of Islam are taking action. Especially in the midst of some reported minor skermishes with muslims in or near UK mosques... - zzb