chinu. What is this! A democratic party leader at last getting a glimmer of understanding about just what is going on with moslum terrorists..... Better late than never. Lets hope this spreads throughout the democratic party.
Top US senator urges Muslim leaders to widely denounce terror
Sun Jul 24, 7:43 PM ET
news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A top US Senator urged Muslim leaders across the world to issue a slew of religious edicts denouncing terrorism and warned that mosques in "many places" are enabling terrorists.
Senator Dianne Feinstein spoke in the wake of Saturday's bombings in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where 88 people were killed, and the July 7 attacks in London, where 52 people and four suicide bombers died. A new attack in London failed Thursday.
"I think until the mosques in the Muslim world and the imams in the Muslim world in a major way issue fatwa after fatwa denouncing jihad and denouncing terror that we're not going make any progress," the California Democrat told CNN.
"I don't see many, if any, major imams throughout all of the Muslim countries coming together and saying: Enough of this. Stop. This is not Islam. You know, we object to it," she said.
"Until there is something like an excommunication that would take place in the Catholic Church where, if you are going to engage in this thing, do not frequent our mosques, you don't see this," Feinstein said.
She added: "What you see in many places is that the mosque becomes an enabler one way or another."
In a separate interview, Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's incoming US ambassador, told CNN that many Muslim leaders have denounced suicide bombings, but it has not "resonated enough in the world media."
Al-Faisal co-authored an article in Britain's The Sunday Telegraph on Sunday calling on "the Islamic world to acknowledge the cancer within its own community and to root it (suicide bombing) out."
"Many fatwas have come out from Muslim scholars and religious leaders against suicide bombings and against the killings that have taken place, but they're just not getting enough resonance in the public media and the public audiences that should be where these statements are directed," he told CNN.
Asked about criticism here that Saudi Arabia was not doing enough to clamp down on international terrorism, al-Faisal replied: "I think it's a misplaced criticism ... Saudi Arabia is really in the forefront of the fight against terrorism, and has been for many years." |
