Speaking after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Al-Azhar University head Sheikh Mohammed Sayyid Tantawi Tantawy said, "It's not courage in any way to kill an innocent person, or to kill thousands of people, including men and women and children." He also said that Osama bin Laden's call for a Jihad against the west was "invalid and not binding on Muslims", adding "Killing innocent civilians is a horrific, hideous act that no religion can approve". He said the Qur'an "specifically forbids the kinds of things the Taliban and al-Qaida are guilty of".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1544955.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obit...d-Tantawi.html
But we remain at war with somebody...and so it goes...
Richard's $.02 
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