Re: Zarqawi - Muslim view
Ravage,
Rather than be distracted to all of the topics you have touched on, I will forge on with the topic at hand. What would I suggest with Zarqawi? Well, first of all Zarqawi is a creature of his envionment. Indeed he was found by following his “spirtual advisor” (ie some imam who sanctioned the beheadings). So lets start by getting rid of the imams who breed these venomous thugs.
As mentioned in the article below, even the Afghani’s can get their act together enough to strip radicals of their religious authority.
A crowd of 600 Afghan clerics gathered in front of an historic mosque yesterday to strip the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar of his claim to religious authority, in a ceremony that provided a significant boost to the presidency of Hamid Karzai.
The declaration, signed by 1,000 clerics from across the country, is an endorsement of the US-backed programme of reconciliation with more moderate elements of the Taliban movement that Karzai has been pursuing ahead of the country’s first parliamentary elections, due in September.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=184686&highlight=mullah+omar
If you cannot excommunicate Zarqawi, surely you can strip his religious advisor of his religious authority. While you are at it, you can self-police radical mosques which seem to be breeding gounds for violent Islam. Better that you do it than the FBI, eh? If even the dreaded US military punishes their own wrongdoers, surely Islam can at least accomplish some measure of self cleansing.
Stu, are you free? How long was your solitary confinement? Do I need to revise my signature?