Ihsanic intelligence
Ihsanic Intelligence, the think tank behind a highly controversial study, have spent two years studying suicide bombings by Islamist terrorists and their conclusions are both timely, controversial and intended for a global readership.
Titled ‘The Hijacked Caravan: Refuting Suicide Bombings as Martyrdom Operations in Contemporary Jihad Strategy’, the study systematically analyses al-Qaeda’s literature for recruiting the potential suicide bomber, refuting the Islamic evidences used in their favour and provides greater evidences from fourteen centuries of the Islamic legal tradition to refute the suicide bombings as a whole.
The study concludes on the landmark ruling, to be presented at the United Nations Social and Economic Council, which Islamic scholars worldwide are being urged to become signatories to: “The technique of suicide bombing is anathema, antithetical and abhorrent to Sunni Islam. It is considered legally forbidden, constituting a reprehensible innovation in the Islamic tradition, morally an enormity of sin combining suicide and murder and theologically an act which has consequences of eternal damnation.”
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so it basically comes down to their version of God versus yours. I guess we'll have to wait until we're dead to find out who's right.
Posted by: the crossfader | July 14, 2005 at 02:55 PM
That must be your own ta'wil.
Posted by: thabet | July 14, 2005 at 03:45 PM
Does anyone see the blatant farce in this post?
Can you imagine a culture (Islam for thabet's benefit) in our human race that needs a 20 page study (that took two years to research and derive conclusions) to attempt to prove to itself that murder of innocent people and terrorism is inconsistent with religious tenets?!?!?!
Anywhere else in the world, or universe probably, the sentence 'terrorism is wrong, murder is wrong', would be prima facie self evident. Not even a one pager is needed in the West. But with Islam, no... there is much to debate about this whole terrorism justification... it could go either way, enough that it takes 20 pages to try and prove the thesis.
Not a good sign, dear Muslims.
Posted by: Hamdullilah | July 15, 2005 at 06:33 AM
Oh goodie. You're back.
Posted by: thabet | July 15, 2005 at 02:01 PM