SubscribeBritain's top Muslim scholars are to issue a "fatwa" which will condemn the terrorists behind the bombings, in an unprecedented move to repudiate the Islamist militants suspected of the atrocities.And here, more Islamic savagery:
It is expected that the religious ruling, which will be drafted this week, will effectively outlaw the bombers among Muslims by stating the attacks were a breach of the most basic tenets of Islam.
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Sir Iqbal Sacranie, general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, said: "Those behind this atrocity aren't just enemies of humanity but enemies of Islam and Muslims.
"If these bombers are found to be Muslims, we will make it clear we utterly dissociate ourselves from them - even if they claim to be Muslims or are acting under the mantle of the Islamic faith. We reject that utterly," said the official spokesman of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).thanks for the post, by the way. we must alert the world of this Ollie Rahman person's wacky theories.
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Imams across Britain were united in condemning the attacks in their weekly Friday sermons, encouraging Muslims to offer all possible assistance to the victims and authorities.
The congregation of around 150 people - three times the usual attendance - had to stoop under red and white scene-of-accident tape to hear their parish priest order them to continue to enjoy living and working in London.Ok, Father Paul.
"This is not a time for many words," he said in his sermon, urging them to rejoice in the capital's rich diversity of cultures, traditions, ethnic groups and faiths. "There is one small practical thing that we can all do. We can name the people who did these things as criminals or terrorists. We must not name them as Muslims."
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute [sic] to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized."
Much has been written in the print media over the last two days about
the presumed authors of the transit bombings in London. Official, but
unnamed sources are describing the attack as the work of the heretofore
unknown Muslim fundamentalist group called 'al-Qaeda Jihad in Europe',
and that the attack was planned to coincide with the G8 summit meeting
in Gleneagles, Scotland. This is, of course, entirely wrong.
The actual perpetrators of this act of terrorism are an unnamed and
shadowy group of ultra-extremist left-wing republican journalists,
photographers, and editors who are normally based in Southern Ontario.
This fringe group of diabolical wordsmiths have a secretive history
that can be traced back to the Gutenberg Revolution. It is known that
this group of vile manipulators are the puppet masters largely
responsible for pulling the strings of more well known but informal
economic and political groups like the Freemasons, the Barvairan
Illuminati, and the Buildibergers.
Local psycho-social indicators such as the software update to the
Christie Blatchford auto-rant AI expert system, and the intensification
of the Rex Murphy Psycho-Linguistic Mass Semiotic Positive Feedback
Loop have been detected by our specialists, who are tirelessly watching
and analysing the relevant critical indicators. Anomalous spikes in
the Pseudo-Real Public Emotive Indicies have been identified, but as
yet there is no conclusive linkage to a causitive originator.
This is all for now. Further updates will follow ss this startling
catastrophe continues to unfold.
London bombings coincide with security exerciseI should clarify my previous post - I hope the BBC follows up on this story...
On July 7 BBC Radio five interviewed Peter Power, managing director of Visor Consultants, a "crisis management" consultant. Power, who used to work at Scotland Yard's Anti Terrorist Branch told the BBC that Visor was running a security exercise at the same times and places that the bombings took place.
POWER: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now.
HOST: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the exercise?
POWER: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met and so within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and so on.
"Nobody thinks clearly, no matter what they pretend. Thinking's a dizzy business, a matter of caticong as many of sthose foggy glimpses as you can and fitting them together the best you can. That's why people hang on so tight to their beliefs and opinions; because, compared to the haphazard way in which they're arrived at, even the goofiest opinion seems wonderfully clear, sane, and self-evident. And if you let it get away from you, then you've got to dive back into that foggy muddle to wangle yourself another to take its place."In reading this passage again, it occurs to me that it may be that some people can't distinguish between knowledge and opinion, which could also contribute to conspiratorialist thinking in some instances. This failure to distinguish or tolerate ambiguity has also been widely noted to be a component of authoritarian personalities, with their emphasis on taking and giving of orders.
"Update: I've been reinstating some of the banned accounts as they email me. Some people wondered why there wasn't any warning. There have been warnings from others -- repeated pleadings for people to ground themselves in reality.FWIW: I will not share a speaking engagement or debate with a conspiratorialist, a holocaust denier or a white supremacist. Others can if they wish, but I won't play into the farce of debating reality.
It's telling that I have NEVER done something like this before. Because this has been an extreme situation. This isn't about disagreeing with what people are saying. If that was the case, everyone would've been banned by now. The myth of the "echo chamber" is just that. A myth.
But as for warnings, well, this has been my warning. I wanted it clear that I was serious, and I think that has come through. I am reinstating those who ask to be reinstated. But the message has been sent."
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But looking into motivations behind these movements can't hurt if only because we once we know that we can counteract their recruiting tactics. For instance, if we flood Iraq/Palestine/Syria with American aid, it'll be more difficult for the Osamas of the owrld to sell US=Great Satan when we're acting more like Santa Claus, dig?
posted by jonmc at 6:03 PM on July 10, 2005