Pakistan has always pushed back against accusations that it orchestrates the Taliban’s violent campaign in Afghanistan, instead saying stability in the neighboring country serves its interests.
But in an apparent violation of the country’s counterterrorism strategy, clerics in Pakistan’s western borderlands adjoining Afghanistan are openly calling for donations to the Afghan Taliban.
Maulavi Allah Dad, an influential cleric in southwestern Balochistan Province, said he is proud to have spent years contributing to the Afghan Taliban’s war chest.
“The central financial commission of the Islamic Emirate (formal name of the Afghan Taliban) calls on us to help with fundraising every year during the holy month of Ramadan,” he told Radio Mashaal. “This year is not the first time we are doing it.”
And here in the West they’re drowning us in taqiyya worse than a tsunami:
UK: Imams falsely claim that “inviolability of every human life is the founding principle” of Islam
Robert Spencer
“They expressed ‘shock and utter disgust’ at Saturday’s ‘cold-blooded murders,’ and said the actions of the attackers ‘alienates them from any association with our community for whom the inviolability of every human life is the founding principle (Q.5:32).’”
Shock? Really? The last thing anyone should be is shocked, especially an imam who knows full well the incitements to violence that are contained in the Qur’an and Sunnah. They may be disgusted, but shocked? After 30,000 jihad attacks worldwide committed in the name of Islam and in accord with its teaching? That strains credulity.
Likewise straining credulity is their claim that the “inviolability of every human life is the founding principle” of the Islamic community, and their citation of Qur’an 5:32 to support this claim. This is one of the most oft-quoted verses of the Qur’an, the one that non-Muslim leaders refer to most frequently when claiming that Islam is a religion of peace:
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption in the land — it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one — it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, after that, throughout the land, were transgressors. (v. 32)
There is less to this than Western leaders and Islamic apologists claim. First, note that it is not a general prohibition of killing — there are big exceptions for those who kill “for a soul or for corruption in the land.” Second, this is not a general command, but one only for the Children of Israel. Third, “many of them, after that … were transgressors” — so all it is really saying is that Allah gave a command to the Children of Israel and they transgressed against it.
(Meanwhile, some Islamic authorities interpret this passage in a supremacist manner, as applying only to Muslims: Sa’id bin Jubayr explains: “He who allows himself to shed the blood of a Muslim, is like he who allows shedding the blood of all people. He who forbids shedding the blood of one Muslim, is like he who forbids shedding the blood of all people.”)
Never mentioned by the many who quote this verse as if it condemns Islamic jihad violence are the caveats above. Nor do they mention that it is followed by 5:33, which specifies the punishment for the corruption and transgressions of the Children of Israel: “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”
Thus this passage is explaining what must be done with Jews who reject Muhammad, not dictating lofty moral principles. Ibn Warraq sums it up: “The supposedly noble sentiments are in fact a warning to Jews. ‘Behave, or else’ is the message. Far from abjuring violence, these verses aggressively point out that anyone opposing the Prophet will be killed, crucified, mutilated, and banished!”
These 130 imams know all this. Yet they still invoke Qur’an 5:32 in a misleading way. It casts doubts upon their honesty.

“130 British imams refuse to perform funerals for London, Manchester attackers,” by Haley Joelle Ott, CBS News, June 6, 2017:
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