Fatwa issued against suicide bombing

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 11:24AM GMT 02 March 2010

Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, a heading minister in Pakistan, has created a 600-page eremite statute that says "suicide bombings and attacks opposite municipal targets are not usually cursed by Islam, but describe the perpetrators all out of the overlay of Islam, in alternative words, to be unbelievers".

Dr Qadri runs the Minhaj-ul-Quran transformation formed in Lahore but additionally has majority British followers.

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He follows the assuage sufi form of Islam and has campaigned for larger eremite tolerance.

But his statute is rare in this nation in the drawn out defamation of terrorism and, it is thought, could have an affect on those on the fringes of extremism.

Dr Qadri told a press discussion there were no "ifs or buts" about terrorism and called on Islamic leaders to communicate the summary that acts of terrorism cut people off as loyal supporters of Islam.

"They can"t explain that their self-murder bombings are putting to death operations and that they turn the heroes of the Muslim ummah [nation], no, they turn heroes of hellfire, and they are heading towards hellfire," he said.

"There is no place for any putting to death and their action is never, ever to be deliberate jihad [holy war]," he said.

He pronounced Islam was a sacrament of assent that promotes beauty, "betterment", integrity and "negates all form of effect and strife".

"Good intentions cannot modify a wrong in to good, they cannot modify an immorality in to good," he added.

"Terrorism is terrorism, assault is assault and it has no place in Islamic training and no fact can be supposing for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts."

Shahid Mursaleen, orator for Minhaj-ul-Quran UK, said: "He has strike tough on the terrorists as it prevents Islamists from deliberation self-murder bombers as "martyrs". This fatwa injects disbelief in to the minds of intensity self-murder bombers.

"Extremist groups formed in Britain partisan girl by brainwashing them that they will "with certainty" be rewarded in the subsequent hold up and Dr Qadri"s fatwa has private this key egghead cause from their minds."

The fatwa has been billed as "arguably the majority comprehensive" theological refusal of Islamic terrorism to date by opposite extremism think tank the Quilliam foundation.

A Quilliam orator said: "Terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda go on to transparent their mass killings with self-indulgent readings of eremite scripture.

"Fatwas that explode and display such theological innovations will entrust Islamist terrorism to the dustbin of history."

The Minhaj-ul-Quaran transformation runs courses in combating eremite extremism in tutorial centres via Britain together with London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nelson, Walsall, Glasgow and Dundee.

Communities Minister Shahid Malik, whose Dewsbury subdivision was home to 7/7 bomber Mohammad Siddique Khan, welcomed the fatwa.

"It is obligatory on Muslims to mount up for their conviction - when 7/7 occurred those 4 immorality immature men killed themselves and over 50 trusting people since they followed a disfigured and perverted understand of Islam that told them by you do so they would go to heaven," he said.

"A transparent and undeniable summary contingency go out that Islam teaches that these 4 are not martyrs going to sky but sinners going somewhere really opposite indeed.

"Hence, I really majority acquire the work of Dr Qadri in assisting strengthen this majority consequential of summary to Muslims and non-Muslims alike."