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Islamic Scholars asked to Rule on Terrorism

Here is a surprising message from the Family Research Institute on a bizarre request by Islamic terrorists.

Islamic terrorists in Iraq, who have been abducting foreign civilians and killing them for the last six months, have now asked for a fatwa, a religious ruling by the Association of Muslim Scholars, as to whether Islam approves of their actions. A spokesman for the Association said this is a difficult question and would require "profound study."

Would the same response apply if the terrorists in Russia, described by President Putin as Arab men trained by the al Qaeda, had inquired about their jihad that left over 300 people dead, many of them young school children that they had held for days without food and water?

Something is not right with a religion that sanctions the intentional killing of innocent civilians in their effort to extort concessions out of government officials. Is this the same Islam that unwitting politicians have attempted to convince the American people is a religion of peace.

In the same FRC memo, American judges were reportedly asked to consider the constitutionality of a law that banned the gruesome and painful murder of innocent children. This question was also difficult but after profound study the judges ruled expectedly against the law.

In a somewhat expected decision today, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf of Lincoln, Nebraska ruled the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional. This is the third time in just weeks that a District Judge has ruled that Congress cannot prohibit a procedure that partially removes an unborn child and crushes its skull.

There is a certain repugnant hypocrisy in the indignation toward terrorists (who kill thousands) if there is not the same response, accompanied by a deep sorrow, toward the protected murder of 45,170,936 children in America. May God be merciful to the children.

Posted by tim at September 10, 2004 3:09 AM

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