] At a convention on the subject of "Pluralism in Islam"
] which took place in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian
] Journalists' Union in Cairo, Sheikh Dr. Yousef
] Al-Qaradhawi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement
] and one of the most important religious authorities in
] Islamist circles, issued a religious legal opinion
] permitting the abduction and killing of American
] civilians in Iraq in order to pressure the American army
] to evacuate its forces. A very interesting read from MEMRI (Middle East Research Institute), with translations of several different reactions about the Fatwa. Though there are many fundamentalists who support it, there also appears to be a growing opinion among other Muslims that "whoever encourages terrorism should be treated as a terrorist." There's also an interesting proposal from one of them: ] "What then is to be done? There is only one solution. A group of
] progressive Arab intellectuals ready to put their lives in danger
] must meet and write a humanistic, international, progressive
] statement written in the language, way of thinking, and logic of
] the 21st century. It must present this statement to the U.N. and
] demand that the Security Council discuss it and pass a resolution
] on it that will grant the U.N. [the authority] to establish a
] tribunal, which will be called the 'Terrorism Court.' All those
] who foment terrorism and disseminate Fatwa s encouraging
] terrorism, and all those who carry out terrorism, will be brought
] before this tribunal. [This is necessary] since terrorism has
] become a global, international problem and does not only concern
] the ArabsÂ…" Interesting reading, of a wide variety of viewpoints. MEMRI: Muslim Intellectuals' Reaction to the Fatwa Calling for Abductions of Civilians in Iraq | 
