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July 15, 2005
London
Some belated links on the attacks in London: Angry Marxist Hippy has some good quotes. In an NYT Op-Ed piece, Thomas Friedman reminds us that "To this day - to this day - no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden." Some clerics in Spain issued a fatwa after the bombings there, but the fact that this is a major exception underscores the previous point. The BBC also addresses the abundance of madrassas (Islamic schools) in Pakistan that teach the Koran and little else and seem to support an extremist view -- one of the bombers supposedly attended one.
Posted by csageday at July 15, 2005 12:11 AM