{"id":28746,"date":"2015-12-10T10:47:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2015-12-10T10:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T17:47:12","slug":"70000-indian-muslim-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-isis-al-qaida-and-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/12\/70000-indian-muslim-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-isis-al-qaida-and-terrorism.html","title":{"rendered":"70,000 Indian Muslim clerics issue fatwa against ISIS, al-Qa\u2019ida, and terrorism"},"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>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28747\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-Taj_Mahal_Agra_India.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28747\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/12\/800px-Taj_Mahal_Agra_India-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"For Mrs. Shah Jahan\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building in Agra, India<br>(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge.)<br>Islamic culture\u00a0has never contributed anything to world civilization beyond suicide bombing and terrorism, right?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to this story:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/70000-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-terrorism-15-lakh-Muslims-support-it\/articleshow\/50100656.cms?from=mdr\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/70000-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-terrorism-15-lakh-Muslims-support-it\/articleshow\/50100656.cms?from=mdr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/625619\/Muslim-Fatwa-ISIS-Islamic-State-al-Qaeda-Taliban-Islam-Paris-Attacks-Daesh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/625619\/Muslim-Fatwa-ISIS-Islamic-State-al-Qaeda-Taliban-Islam-Paris-Attacks-Daesh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, I respond, who <em>cares?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ban \u2019em all <em>anyway!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the king of Saudi Arabia has grandkids studying at Georgetown, <em>toss<\/em> \u2019em! \u00a0If a famous Muslim neurosurgeon from Toronto has been invited to attend a conference of experts in New York City, don\u2019t <em>let<\/em> him! \u00a0There\u2019s an Egyptian Nobel laureate teaching at Caltech? \u00a0If he dares to leave the U.S., <em>don\u2019t readmit him!<\/em> \u00a0Don\u2019t admit Muslim students for study at American universities! \u00a0Don\u2019t let Indian Muslim software engineers work in the United States! \u00a0And should the families of Muslim diplomats really be allowed into the country?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why use a little midget ball peen hammer to drive in a nail when you can use a sledgehammer? \u00a0Why take aspirin for a headache when you can take heroin?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Thanks to Jabra Ghneim for alerting me to this story: \u00a0 http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/70000-clerics-issue-fatwa-against-terrorism-15-lakh-Muslims-support-it\/articleshow\/50100656.cms?from=mdr \u00a0 http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/625619\/Muslim-Fatwa-ISIS-Islamic-State-al-Qaeda-Taliban-Islam-Paris-Attacks-Daesh \u00a0 But, I respond, who cares? \u00a0 Ban \u2019em all anyway! \u00a0 If the king of Saudi Arabia has grandkids studying at Georgetown, toss \u2019em! \u00a0If a famous Muslim neurosurgeon from Toronto has been invited to attend a conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>70,000 Indian Muslim clerics issue fatwa against ISIS, al-Qa\u2019ida, and terrorism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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