The purpose of this blog is to promote the Moderate Muslims Reject Terrorism petition. The petition's purpose is to give the peace loving moderate majority of the Ummah to signal their devotion to peace and rejection of terrorism.

President Bush assures us that "Islam is a great religion of peace" which has been "hijacked by extremists". That being true, there must be a silent majority who are repulsed by the extremists' bloody reign of terror. The petition was created in the hope that the silent majority will end their silence; speaking out by signing the petition.

Signers of the petition are urged to inform their brethren by emailing petition links. Nobody will sign a petition he is not aware of! The petition's url is: http://www.petitiononline.com/No2Jihad/petition.html . The text of the petition follows below.

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Firmly believing in Allah's divine mercy and compassion, and sharing his love for all his creatures, the undersigned members of the peace loving and moderate majority of Muslims, revolted and repulsed by blasphemous bloodshed in Allah's name, reject as un-Islamic conduct all acts of terrorism including but not limited to:

• school bus attack at Nahariya/Avivim (1970) which killed nine innocent children
• Ma'alot massacre (1974)
• Karni crossing bombing (2005)
• World Trade Center attacks
• Madrid rail bombing
• London rail bombing
• Beslan massacre
• genocide in Darfur
• Bali night club bombings
• decapitation of Danny Pearl
• decapitation of Nick Berg
  

We condemn, regardless of the identity of the victims, terrorism in all its forms, bombings, shootings, knifings, hijackings, abductions and mass casualty attacks because they do unjust injury to innocent people and irreparable damage to Islam.

We call for the exclusion of incitement to terrorist violence from our madrassah curriculum, kittab & kutbah and from the mass media of all Islamic nations.

We call for withholding Zakat from all organizations which teach, incite, facilitate or organize & perform acts of terrorism.

We call on all Imams and Mullahs to fill their kutbah with Allah's love, mercy and guidance, not with blood thirsty calls for Jihad.

We call on the Ulema to reject, as inspired by Shaytan,[22:52] the ayats & ahadith used by radical extremists to rationalize their terrorism.


All this we declare on our own free will, without any hesitation, mental reservation, kitman or al-taqeya whatsoever, by him in whose hand our souls are!

Click here to sign the petition. Click here to view current signatures & comments.

Immediately after posting the petition, I sent emails to FMCAT, CAIR, MPAC and several other organizations inviting them to endorse the petition. None of them responded. At the present time, only three Muslims have signed the petition.

This morning I posted a message on FMCAT's blog, including the full text of the petition. Perhaps someone there will reveal why the moderate majority of Muslims are unwilling to endorse an explicit rejection of terrorism.

Update:

A reader named Steve replied to my post at FMCAT, indicating that he was promoting the petition and could produce 20 new signatures within a week. By the next day, there were 30 new signatures. At the time of this update, the total is up to 52. Several Islamic blogs have linked to the petition and there has been some lively discussion.

Update:
As of 04/02/06, the petition has a total of 63 signatures. I have sent an email to the founder of the American Islamic Forum For Democracy inviting them to endorse the petition. See M. Zuhdi Jasser's Washington Times Op-Ed.

Update:

As of 07/09/07, the petiition has a total of 141 signatures, most of which are trolls spewing spam. To the best of my knowledge, no organization has endorsed the petition. A Technorati search revealed that most of its support came from Egyptian and Asian blogs.

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