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To: Cogito who wrote (69909)	6/1/2008 9:26:07 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 541354

Here's what came up number one from Google with the search string Islamic clerics condemning terrorism: I did not go any farther, because it's their responsibility to do that, become visible, become effective, and go after their own bad apples. March 2, 2008 Muslim clerics condemn terrorism -- by the West This condemnation of terrorism by Dar ul-Uloom Deoband has gotten -- not unexpectedly -- a lot of enthusiastic media attention, and yet -- also not unexpectedly -- the more one looks at this, the less there is to see. Marisol already noted here the chief problems with this declaration: "The question of when and whether it is legitimate to use violence to further Islamic causes is left untouched. The other is the definition of innocents. We're expected to supply our own cultural definition of innocents and non-combatants, and assume that their definition does not differ." Exactly so. But when the document itself condemns all terrorism, without explaining what it considers terrorism to be, and then condemns "state-sponsored terrorism" in "Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan," as well as "in Bosnia and various South American countries," conspicuously absent from this list is any terrorism of which Muslims are the perpetrators. People get impatient with me when I respond to Muslim condemnations of terrorism by asking, "Yes, but what do they mean by terrorism?," but this is precisely the question that needs to be clarified. Why? Consider the Hamas TV program for children just last week, in which a character said: "Assud, we are not terrorists. All we want is to get our beloved homeland, Palestine, back. We want all of Palestine to be ours. We are not terrorists..." And Assud the Jihad Rabbit replied: "They are the terrorists." This is not just kid-show fare. This is standard bedrock assumption in many areas of the Islamic world. And consequently, if the Deobandis really want to come out against jihad terrorism, they need to specify that. Otherwise their condemnation stands only as a condemnation of various actions by Western countries in defense against the global jihadists, and does nothing to repudiate those jihadists, or their jihad, at all. jihadwatch.org snipurl.com