3 News : Muslim leader: Absolute condemnation of terrorism

WED, 03 MAR 2010 10:02A.M.

The leader of a global Muslim movement has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, that he calls an absolute condemnation of terrorism.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former Pakistani lawmaker, says the 600-page fatwa bans suicide bombing "without any excuses, any pretexts, or exceptions".

Tahir-ul-Qadri has issued similar, shorter decrees, but the event in London was publicised by the Quilliam Foundation, a government-funded anti-extremism think tank and drew strong media attention.

The religious scholar is the founder of Minhaj-ul-Quran, a worldwide movement that promotes a non-political, tolerant Islam.

The group has hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, most of them in Pakistan or Pakistanis living in other countries.

Source : http://www.3news.co.nz/Muslim-leader-Absolute-condemnation-of-terrorism/tabid/973/articleID/144468/Default.aspx

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