It is according to my friend, counter-terror expert extraordinaire Steve Emerson. Steve writes of the fatwa (issued today by the Fiqh Council of North America at a press event organized by the Council on American Islamic Relations): “Nowhere does it condemn the Islamic extremism ideology that has spawned Islamic terrorism. It does not renounce nor even acknowledge the existence of an Islamic jihadist culture that has permeated mosques and young Muslims around the world. It does not renounce Jihad let alone admit that it has been used to justify Islamic terrorist acts. It does not condemn by name any Islamic group or leader. In short, it is a fake fatwa designed merely to deceive the American public into believing that these groups are moderate. In fact, officials of both organizations have been directly linked to and associated with Islamic terrorist groups and Islamic extremist organizations.”
Steve’s argument can be accessed here. His organization, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, has also compiled additional relevant information, accessible here.
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