Landmark Islamic Ruling Unequivocally Condemns Suicide Bombings
London, United Kingdom (8 July, 05) – A day after London was struck by four terrorist bomb explosions killing 49 people and injuring over 700, an influential Islamic think-tank in London has published a landmark study unequivocally condemning suicide bombings by the pan-Islamist terrorist group, al-Qaeda, as murderous and suicidal acts, “destined for eternal damnation.”
(PRWEB) July 10, 2005 -- Ihsanic Intelligence, the think tank behind the
highly controversial study (available to download at www.ihsanic-intelligence.com), have spent two years studying
suicide bombings by Islamist terrorists and their conclusions are both timely,
controversial and intended for a global readership.
Titled ‘The Hijacked
Caravan: Refuting Suicide Bombings as Martyrdom Operations in Contemporary Jihad
Strategy’, the pioneering study is the only ruling of its which systematically
analyses al-Qaeda’s literature for recruiting the potential suicide bomber,
refuting the Islamic evidences used in their favour and provides greater
evidences from fourteen centuries of the Islamic legal tradition to refute
suicide bombings as a whole. Previous legal opinions given by Islamic scholars
regarding suicide bombings by Islamist terrorists have tended to be blanket
statements of approval or condemnation, as opposed to systematic refutation of
the "Islamic" evidences used by proponents of the tactic.
The study
concludes on the landmark ruling, to be presented at various governmental and
academic institutions worldwide, which Islamic scholars worldwide are being
urged to become signatories to for consensus: “The technique of suicide bombing
is anathema, antithetical and abhorrent to Sunni Islam. It is considered legally
forbidden, constituting a reprehensible innovation in the Islamic tradition,
morally an enormity of sin combining suicide and murder and theologically an act
which has consequences of eternal damnation.”
Boutros al-Bakr, Managing
Director of Ihsanic Intelligence, said in a statement today, ‘After the Holy
Places of Makkah and Madinah in Saudi Arabia, London is the city most Muslims
from around the world visit. One in seven people in London is Muslim and a third
of the British National Health Service is from the Muslim community in the UK.
The bomb in Edgware Road was planted in the heart of the Arab quarter in London.
Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide are becoming collateral damage for Islamist
terrorists. Muslims need to condemn suicide bombings in all their forms,
everywhere and against everyone - our scholars need to do that and governments
in the Islamic world need to do that. That is what this study aims to
do.'
Some of the major findings of the study into suicide bombings
are:
*‘The Hijacked Caravan’ is the first and only Islamic legal ruling
which unequivocally condemns suicide bombing in all circumstances by
systematically refuting the "Islamic" evidences cited by proponents of the
tactic.
*Suicide terrorism has no precedent in fourteen centuries of
Sunni Islamic tradition
*Islamist terrorist groups like al-Qa’eda are
conclusively proven to have adopted the use of suicide bombings from the
Hindu-Marxist terrorist groups like the Tamil Tigers and kamikaze pilots from
Japan;
*Islamist terrorists killing Muslims are considered to be in the
tradition of the khawarij, an ancient Islamic heretical sect which also
assassinated Prophet Muhammad’s cousin, Imam Ali;
*Suicide bombings
invoked under the rubric of Islamist terrorism, outside Israel and the
Palestinian Territories, grew three-fold within the space of three years after
9/11, killing twice as many people as had been killed over two
decades.
*Within the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a case often given
global exception by some scholars for using this tactic, suicide bombings
doubled as did the number of people killed in the three years after 9/11
compared to the previous seven years of suicide terrorism. Worldwide, in merely
three years after 9/11, the number of suicide bombings had increased three-fold
than it had over two decades, whilst the number of people killed had
doubled.
*Worldwide, for every person who undertook a suicide bombing
prior to 9/11, 18 people were likely to be killed. After 9/11, this figure fell
to killing of 14 people on average, which was only as a result of the
disproportionate rise in the “export” of this practice to groups
worldwide.
*Suicide bombing in the name of Islam has occurred in more
than 20 countries: Lebanon [1981], Kuwait [1983], Argentina [1992], Panama,
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories [1994], Pakistan, Croatia [1995],
Saudi Arabia [1996], Tanzania, Kenya [1998], Yemen, Chechnya [2000], USA,
Kashmir, Afghanistan [2001], Tunisia, Indonesia, Algeria [2002], Morocco,
Russia, India, Iraq, Turkey [2003], Uzbekistan and Spain [2004] - and possibly
United Kingdom [2005].
To download ‘The Hijacked Caravan’, please visit
Ihsanic Intelligence’s website:
www.ihsanic-intelligence.com
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/7/prweb259836.htm