Source: The Star
The so-called “Islamic State’s” brutal crimes make it a threat to moderate Islam, Mideast stability and global security.
The Muslim world’s moral censure alone won’t shake the barbarous grip that Al Qaeda-affiliated extremists have over wide swaths of Syria and Iraq. Their self-declared “Islamic State caliphate” has some 10,000 motivated fighters, guns, foreign backers and money to burn. Like Al Qaeda, they will not be easy to uproot and destroy.
But at least their vile claim to be acting in the name of Islam is being shattered, as key Muslim spiritual figures rise up to denounce and discredit them. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his brutal jihadists are being condemned far and wide as enemies of true religion.
In Egypt Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam, the nation’s most influential cleric, has characterized them as Islam’s worst nightmare. They are “an extremist and bloody group” that “poses a danger to Islam and Muslims” by tarnishing Islam’s image and spreading corruption, he says. At Cairo’s Al Azhar University, the renowned Dar Al-Ifta legal institute has just launched a social media campaign to discredit the very notion of the “Islamic State,” and the jihadists’ methods and claims. It’s more properly “Al Qaeda separatists in Iraq and Syria,” the legal scholars point out.
Categories: Anti-Islam Attitude, Arab World, Asia, ISLAM
The “moral authority” of the vast majority has now utterly refuted and rebuked the ignominious minority “abomination”. All that needs to be said, has now been said..
Now, led by the “moral authority” of that vast majority, the “#1 Enemy of Islam” must be utterly eliminated. There is no other choice…
But, not the innocent bystanders, please …
Of course, Dr. Shah… That should always be the case. But, please remember that the major reason that this “abomination” must be eliminated is because of that very thing you mention. Their penchant to deliberately target innocents of many persuasions with the utmost depravity.
Actually, in can be said it is their raison d’etre.