Quick, Name FIVE Muslim leaders who have spoken out against violence!!

[Cannikin]

for an argument...thanks.

[el_gato]

1. Depends on what you mean by speaking out against violence

Edward Said was an eloquent person who had alot to say
but I don't know if he would qualify as being against
violence because he was fighting back against Isreali
aggression.

If you are having a debate with someone don't get caught
accepting their terms of the debate.

[redqueen]

7. Exactly - don't accept their terms. n/t

[buycitgo]

2. quick.......name five muslim leaders

[bobbyboucher]

3. Qucik, name 5 right-wing buttplugs who speak Arabic.

Ask those toolbox dwellers if they read newspapers in Arabic or listen to Al-Jazera.

[redqueen]

4. This is easy - web search is all that's required.

Tahirul Qadri, who heads the Pakistani Awami Tehrik Party
Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheik, considered one of the foremost clerics in SA
Sheik Nasser al-Fahd
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Sheikh Hisham Kabbani of the Islamic Supreme Council of America

[jpgray]

5. Sistani has spoken out against violence

I can't name any others off the top of my head, but they do exist.

[porphyrian]

6. OK

1. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia summarized that, "...hijacking planes, terrorizing innocent people and shedding blood, constitute a form of injustice that cannot be tolerated by Islam, which views them as gross crimes and sinful acts."

2. Here's a link to statements compiled by over 50 professors of Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies from the U.S. and Canada, members of the American Academy of Religion in Atlanta, GA
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/response.htm

3. Here are a bunch more: Mustafa Mashhur, General Guide, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt; Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, Pakistan; Muti Rahman Nizami, Ameer, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Bangladesh; Shaykh Ahmad Yassin, Founder, Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Palestine; Rashid Ghannoushi, President, Nahda Renaissance Movement, Tunisia; Fazil Nour, President, PAS - Parti Islam SeMalaysia, Malaysia; and 40 other Muslim scholars and politicians:
“The undersigned, leaders of Islamic movements, are horrified by the events of Tuesday 11 September 2001 in the United States which resulted in massive killing, destruction and attack on innocent lives. We express our deepest sympathies and sorrow. We condemn, in the strongest terms, the incidents, which are against all human and Islamic norms. This is grounded in the Noble Laws of Islam which forbid all forms of attacks on innocents. God Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an: 'No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another' (Surah al-Isra 17:15).”

4. KUALA LUMPUR DECLARATION ON INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

ADOPTED AT THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE OF FOREIGN MINISTERS ON TERRORISM

1-3- APRIL 2002
"In the name of Islamic solidarity, we, the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), have gathered in Kuala Lumpur to state our collective resolve to combat terrorism and to respond to developments affecting Muslims and Islamic countries in the aftermath of the 11th September attacks;

...4. We reaffirm our commitment to the principles and true teachings of Islam which abhor aggression, value peace, tolerance and respect as well as prohibiting the killing of innocent people;

...5. We reject any attempt to link Islam and Muslims to terrorism as terrorism has no association with any religion, civilization or nationality;

...7. We unequivocally condemn acts of international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, including state terrorism, irrespective of motives, perpetrators and victims as terrorism poses a serious threat to international peace and security and is a grave violation of human rights;

Does Malasia count as one leader?

[Bread and Circus]

8. You can look at this many ways.

First, there's probably a zillion who have spoken out
against US and Israeli violence.

Second, others have posted here of 5 that have spoken
out "in general" against violence (I'm assuming).

Third, perhaps we can't "quickly" name 5 muslim leaders who
have spoken out generally against violence because our
slanted media wouldn't dare do such a thing as show those
leaders speaking out.

[The Stranger]

9. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Muhammad Ali, I believe,

have all spoken out since September 11, 2001 about their faith and (paraphrasing) how Islam means peace, etc.

[eridani]

10. Badsha Khan, non-violent Pathan warrior

This guy should be as well known as his comrade in arms Ghandhi, but unfortunately is not.

http://www.monitor.upeace.org/innerpg.cfm?id_article=93

Badshah Khan was progressively drawn to involvement in the struggle for independence and sought inspiration from the nonviolent tradition of Islam, which he claimed had been present in that creed but had been forgotten. “There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca, and it has since been followed by all those who wanted to throw off the oppressor’s yoke. But we had so far forgotten it that when Ghandhiji placed it before us, we thought he was sponsoring a novel creed.”

Badsha Khan set about setting up his own nonviolent army, Khudai Khidmatgars or “Servants of God” in 1929-30. As with Gandhi, the ”simple life” went hand in hand with nonviolence and anti-imperialism, and non-violence as a method was directed against Pathan violence as much as British violence. When the Pathans wanted weapons he would say “I am going to give you a weapon…It is the weapon of the Prophet…that weapon is patience and righteousness…If you exercise patience, victory will be yours.”

For two years after the formation of the Khudia Khidmtagars, Pathans died without fighting back violently, and Badshah Khan’s movement swelled to eighty thousand, many showing astonishing bravery in the face of British atrocities. He was arrested and then banished. He chose to spend his exile at Gandhi’s ashram and the two men became close. In the end British India did not stay together as we know, and Gandhi died of violence. Badshah Khan lived well into his nineties, dying in 1988, having spent thirty years on and off in prison. He never faltered either in his opposition to foreign rule nor in his resolve of the power of nonviolence