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The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
Saturday, 30, October, 2004 (16, Ramadhan, 1425)
Stop Terror Sheikhs, Muslim Academics Demand
Staff Writer —
JEDDAH/NEW YORK, 30 October 2004 —
Over 2,500 Muslim intellectuals from 23 countries have signed a
petition to the United Nations calling for an international
treaty to ban the use of religion for incitement to violence.
It also calls on the Security Council to set up a tribunal to
try "the theologians of terror." The petition is addressed to
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and to all members of the Security
Council and its current chairman.
"There are individuals in the Muslim world who pose as clerics
and issue death sentences against those they disagree with," says
Shakir Al-Nablusi, a Jordanian academic and one of the
signatories. "These individuals give Islam a bad name and foster
hatred among civilizations."
Nablusi said hundreds of Arab writers and academics were
collecting more signatures and hope to have "tens of thousands"
by next month. Among those collecting signatures are Jawad
Hashem, a former Iraqi minister of planning, and Alafif
Al-Akdhar, a leading Tunisian writer and academic. Most of the
signatories are from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states plus
Iraq, Jordan and Palestine.
The signatories describe those who use religion for inciting
violence as "the sheikhs of death". Among those mentioned by name
is Yusuf Al- Qaradawi, an Egyptian preacher working in Qatar. The
signatories accuse him of "providing a religious cover for
terrorism."
Last year Qaradawi raised a storm when he issued a fatwa
allowing the killing of Israeli pregnant women and their unborn
babies on the ground that the babies could grow up to join the
Israeli Army. Last September, Qaradawi in a fatwa in response to
a question from the Egyptian Union of Journalists said killing
"all Americans, civilian or military" in Iraq was allowed.
"We cannot let such dangerous nonsense to pass as Islam,"
Nablusi says.
The petition also names the late Egyptian preacher Muhammad Al-
Ghazzali who, in 1992, issued a fatwa for the murder of Farag
Foda, an anti-clerical writer in Cairo. Within weeks of the
fatwa, zealots murdered Foda in his home.
Other "sheikhs of death" mentioned include the Yemeni
Abdul-Majid Al- Zendani, and the Saudis Ali bin Khudhair
Al-Khudhair and Safar Al- Hawali. The two Saudis have described
the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States as
"retaliations", and thus justified under Islamic law.
Issuing murder fatwas has a long story.
In 1947 the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Ahmad
Kasravi, one of Iran's most prominent lawyers. A few weeks
later, six men stabbed Kasravi to death in a court of law. In
1951 a group of mullas issued a fatwa for the murder of Iran's
Prime Minister Haji- Ali Razmara. He was shot dead a few days
later. In 1989 Khomeini issued a fatwa for the murder of the
British novelist Salman Rushdie.
The signatories of the petition also want the UN to order its
member states to stop broadcasting the "mad musings of the
theologians of terror."
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