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Arabia
Call to Root Out Causes of Terrorism
2003-12-18
Members of the Islamic Fiqh Academy, who concluded their seven-day deliberations in Makkah yesterday, emphasized the need to remove the conditions that breed terrorism and extremism by implementing Shariah.
Oh, yeah. That'll do it.
The academy, an affiliate of the Makkah-based Muslim World League, called for a meeting of scholars in the Muslim world to streamline fatwas (religious edicts) on contemporary issues. It also called for the establishment of an international body to coordinate among major Islamic organizations around the world.
More shariah... And an Islamic high command...
A final communique issued after the meeting urged Muslim countries to include Islamic teachings in school curricula as part of the efforts to fight deviant thoughts and extremism.
And indoctrinate the kiddies...
The meeting denounced all forms of terrorism and urged the international community to reach an agreement on the definition of terrorism and its punishment.
Seems like they're still refusing to accept any rational definition of terrorism. And if it remains "undefined," then how can you do anything about it?
The academy urged all banks in Muslim countries to keep away from interest-based financial dealings. Referring to third-party sales or tawarruk deals being practiced by certain financial organizations, the scholars said they were unacceptable because of suspicious involvement of interest in such deals.
Looks like the princes have reached another accomodation with the holy men...
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#8  Well, you gotta admit... they are the experts.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-12-18 10:36:02 PM  

#7   How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age?
First of all, you have to actually get them INTO the Iron age. Nothing the Arab states are using, including their religion, originates with them. Everything is borrowed (or stolen), down to the iron-age implements they stole from the Romans to wage their first "Holy Wars". Without the advancements of the Turks, they would STILL be wandering nomads, living in tents off camels and goats. Until the basic character of the nomad/herder "I can take anything I come across and use it" self-centered "our society needs to rule the world because our hearts are pure" idiots are purged from Islam, it will be a problem. As long as Islam is a problem, there will be war between its followers and people who have a different idea about how to live. That's very simplistic, very heavily edited to save Fred's bandwidth, but that's what we're up against. Two hundred years may not be enough. We may have to end up locking these people away in their own tiny little garrisons and leaving them to their own idiocies, because they are either incapable of changing, or unwilling to take the necessary steps.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2003-12-18 12:22:55 PM  

#6  This is a extremely belated and logical attempt to remake Islam from a horizontal helter-skelter mob of local loose-cannon Imams issuing fatwas all over the place and paying only lip service to the Grand Doodahs into a new sleek modern vertical power structure with consolidated power and control over their future and PR.

The con-man's version of Pyramid Power. Only took them 1400 years to figure it out. F**kin' Duh.
Posted by: .com   2003-12-18 11:10:08 AM  

#5  At least their position is consistent: If all countries implement sharia, the Islamonuts won't be tempted to boom the infidels who insist on living free.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-12-18 9:38:12 AM  

#4  How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age

A generation or more.
Posted by: rkb   2003-12-18 8:21:41 AM  

#3  Long ? How long DOES it take to drag a civilization kicking and screaming out of the iron age ?
Posted by: eyeyeye   2003-12-18 7:56:50 AM  

#2  Shariah is the problem, not the solution.

This war will not be really won until Arabs have to look up shariah, fatwa, and jihad in a dictionary because the terms have fallen into disuse.

Yup, it's gonna be a long war.
Posted by: Dave D.   2003-12-18 7:23:09 AM  

#1  This is gonna be a really looooong War.
Posted by: Mark   2003-12-18 6:47:38 AM  

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