Muslim leader issues anti-terror fatwa
AP
Date: 3/2/2010
LONDON – 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 Tuesday's event in London was publicized 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 nonpolitical, tolerant Islam. The group has hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, most of them in Pakistan or Pakistanis living in other countries.
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