{"id":1531,"date":"2002-07-26T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2002-07-26T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2002-07-26T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2002-07-26T16:09:21","slug":"sorry_about_that_terror_thing_egyptian_militants_apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/07\/sorry_about_that_terror_thing_egyptian_militants_apologize\/","title":{"rendered":": Sorry About That Terror Thing: Egyptian Militants Apologize"},"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><p>In a dramatic reversal of militancy that reaches back to the assassination of Egyptian President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmhschool.org%2Ftthornton%2Fassassination_of_anwar_al.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anwar Sadat<\/a> in 1981, imprisoned leaders of <i>al-Gam\u2019a al-Islamiya<\/i> (Muslim Brotherhood) promised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com%2Fdailyglobe2%2F202%2Fnation%2FEgyptian_militants_express_regret%2B.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">formally apologize<\/a> to their victims, recognize the legitimacy of governments they plotted to overthrow, and call for peaceful Islamic activism to replace armed insurrection.   The group\u2019s leader, Karam Zuhdi, added that this transformation \u201ccannot be temporary or tactical. It is a strategic vision.\u201d  Militants \u201charvested great evil and weakened the nation,\u201d added Ali al-Sharif, one of the imprisoned leaders.  \u201cIslam never condones evil.\u201d  Having provided the ideological backing for bloodshed that peaked with the 1997 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org%2F9803%2Fabstracts%2Finsight.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">massacre of 58 tourists<\/a> in Luxor, the leaders now say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com%2FWorld%2Fafrica%2FdisplayStory.cfm%3Fstory_id%3D1203943\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">terrorism is bad<\/a>, not just because it alienates mainstream society, but because it violates Islamic law.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen the error of their ways, imprisoned leaders of Egypt&#8217;s largest militant group 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