Grand Sheikh Al-Azhar condemns suicide attacks; calls terrorist groups “Enemies of Islam”
Grand Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of the Al-Azhar mosque of Cairo - which is seen as the highest authority in Sunni Islam - said groups which carried out suicide bombings were the enemies of Islam. Speaking at the conference in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, Sheikh Tantawi said extremist Islamic groups had appropriated Islam and its notion of jihad, or holy struggle, for their own ends. (BBC News, 11 July, 2003}
Memo to Osama bin Laden:
"I would rather live in America under Ashcroft and Bush at their worst, than in any “Islamic state” established by ignorant, intolerant and murderous punks like you and Mullah Omar at their best."
--Islamic Scholar Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D., February 12, 2003
http://www.islamfortoday.com/terrorism.htm