{"id":1379,"date":"2002-04-02T23:05:22","date_gmt":"2002-04-03T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2002-04-02T23:05:22","modified_gmt":"2002-04-03T04:05:22","slug":"one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/","title":{"rendered":": One Man&#8217;s Terrorist: Muslims Balk on a Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/islamicconference.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pic\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201d border=\u201d0\u2033&gt;\n\n<\/p><tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<p>Yesterday, the Organization of Islamic Conference\u2019s well-hyped meeting in Malaysia to find a unified Islamic stance on terrorism came to the consensus that even a definition of the word <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020403%2Fap_on_re_as%2Fislamic_terror_conference_61\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">would not be offered<\/a>. Instead, the draft statement clarified what it was not \u2013 anything associated with \u201cIslamic states or Palestinian and Lebanese resistance.\u201d The OIC then asked for the issue to be taken up by a U.N. conference (to come up with an Islamic definition?), although the OIC had already come up with its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oic-un.org%2F26icfm%2Fc.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">own definition<\/a> of terrorism 3 years ago. Considering that the intent of the conference was to <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020331%2Fap_on_re_as%2Fislamic_terror_conference_6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">improve the image<\/a> of the Muslim world in response to the increase in terr\u2026 uh, conflicts, there is more work yet to be done. \u201cThis is a wasted opportunity,\u201d said one Malaysian representative. \u201cToo many countries have their own interests.\u201d In that spirit, a Lebanese Muslim cleric then <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020402%2Fap_wo_en_ge%2Flebanon_suicide_bombers_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lauded female suicide bombers<\/a> as Islamically acceptable, theoretically doubling the number of\u2026 er\u2026 people who do\u2026 violent things(?). For now, it looks like you\u2019ll have to come up with your own definition.           <\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conference on terrorism in Malaysia by Islamic countries decides not to decide how to define the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: One Man&#8217;s Terrorist: Muslims Balk on a Definition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A conference on terrorism in Malaysia by Islamic countries decides not to decide how to define the word.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": One Man&#8217;s Terrorist: Muslims Balk on a Definition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A conference on terrorism in Malaysia by Islamic countries decides not to decide how to define the word.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-04-03T04:05:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/islamicconference.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/\",\"name\":\": One Man&#8217;s Terrorist: Muslims Balk on a Definition\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-04-03T04:05:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-04-03T04:05:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/871b6e097b0060bce500f444bd5940ba\"},\"description\":\"A conference on terrorism in Malaysia by Islamic countries decides not to decide how to define the word.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/04\/one_mans_terrorist_muslims_balk_on_a_definition\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": One Man&#8217;s Terrorist: Muslims Balk on a Definition\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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