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...Prophet Muhammad prohibited even the mutilation of a dead mad dog ... What happened in Fallujah is a distortion of Islamic principles, and it is forbidden in Islam." SHEIK KHALID AHMED, senior Islamic cleric in Fallujah, condemning the killings and mutilations of four U.S. civilians by Iraqis...
...Crimson’s specific condemnation of Israel’s targeted killing of Sheik Achmed Yassin (Editorial...
While I commend The Crimson’s balanced and on-point opposition on pragmatic grounds to Israel’s assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin (Editorial, “Assassination Doesn’t Work,” March 25), the moral critique that the editors put forth is unfounded and inaccurate. First, Israel had previously jailed Yassin, but he was freed in an unfortunate prisoner exchange with Jordan in 1997 after two Israeli Mossad agents were captured in Jordan following a botched assassination attempt. Second, arresting the spiritual leader of a militant group that virtually controls large areas...
...Hamas leader wants to go on record renouncing the organization's strident charter, especially the hard-liners who now dominate Hamas' board of directors. But last summer founder Sheik Yassin, in his elliptical way, sketched out for me how Hamas might consider a more accommodating solution. The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house. His high-treble voice was so faint I had to lean awkwardly close to hear. But he remained the movement's ultimate authority. While he leveled boiler-plate criticism at the "racist...
...connections were too vague for Spanish investigators to arrest Zougam, who was not suspected of criminal activity. But law-enforcement authorities in Morocco began tracking him on his frequent visits to his old neighborhood in Tangiers. There he may have heard the preachings of Sheik Mohammed Fizazi, the spiritual leader of Salafia Jihadia, a group of Moroccan radicals said by some investigators to have ties to al-Qaeda. In August 2003 Fizazi was sentenced to 30 years in jail for inspiring the terrorists who bombed five sites in Casablanca, including a Spanish club, in May 2003. Zougam's name surfaced...