Irrelevant Nonsense:
Are we all suckers or what? Are we all stuck on stoopid  & a steady drip of hope ‘n change?  Why do we give every headbanger the benefit of the doubt?
In any case: we don’t live under Islamic law, and no Islamic ruling should be considered relevant, unless it is a death-threat against one of our citizens. Â None of these so-called clerics should be taken seriously.
Ryan Mauro, in his article in Frontpagemag., Â enthusiastically declares that he found the magic potion, on a unicorn:
“Yes, There Are Moderate Muslims and Here Is One” only to make himself look ridiculous, before he even finished writing his article, let alone publishing it.
Munro even publishes  an update:
Update: NRB readers have made me aware that I may have jumped the gun in calling ul-Qadri a moderate. On the website of his organization, they boast of his role in creating Pakistan’s anti-blasphemy law (which I somehow missed), and this article raises further issues that ul-Qadri must address. I have sent an email in to his organization asking for a response.
Nevertheless, I still think his fatwa is extremely important and deserves a lot of attention. Ul-Qadri has said that he specifically wanted to make a document without any equivocation as previous declarations have, leaving no exception for “foreign aggression” or any other justification. Under no circumstances, are acts of terrorism, rioting, etc. to be permitted. This is unprecedented as far as I know.
Here we go again: Because ul Quadri’s fartwa is supposedly against terrorism, Â he’s allegedly getting death-threats from the “radicals” . Â Apart from being “non binding”, the fartwa is not worth the paper its written on.
In my original post, I was going to write about how this should be followed up by fatwas in support of women’s rights, separation of mosque and state, and against oppression and theocracy to help modernize the Islamic world. Given what we now know about ul-Qadri’s past, I definitely should have included that. I had a conversation with a fellow writer last night about this and about how such change can be speedy but will come in stages. We may not like everything ul-Qadri says, but this is something we can support as we try to empower more liberal elements in the Islamic world’s leadership.
His fatwa is 600 pages long, and it’ll be interesting to see if it tries to only discredit acts of violence, or if it includes the other aspects of oppression that define Sharia Law and radical Islamic ideology, blasphemy for ridiculing Mo and blood money also payed for mohammedan women (according to sharia)in Pakistan – which is why Qadri claims to support women’s rights.
His bio (self pompously told):
“Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri is a leading figure who has promoted peace and interfaith dialogue for 30 years.”--from the article.
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