{"id":1169,"date":"2005-08-07T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/08\/07\/shaikh_afifi_on_terrorism"},"modified":"2005-08-07T12:08:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:08:01","slug":"shaikh_afifi_on_terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/08\/07\/shaikh_afifi_on_terrorism","title":{"rendered":"Shaikh Afifi on terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti has published a long article fisking an article apparently written by Omar Bakri Muhammad, which calls actions like the Sept 11 hijackings &#8220;a viable option in Jihad&#8221; for Muslims who don&#8217;t live in the west.  The shaikh, a Malaysian Shafi&#8217;i scholar based in Oxford, calls the article&#8217;s endorsement of terrorism &#8220;not only an anomaly [shadh] and very weak [wahin] but also completely wrong [batil] and a misguided innovation [bid&#8217;a dalala]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingislam.org\/k\/dcmm_e.html\">Defending the Transgressed, by Censuring the Reckless against the Killing of Civilians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seekersdigest.org\/defending-the-transgressed-by-censuring-the-reckless-against-the-killing-of-civilians-shaykh-al-akitis-scholarly-refutation-of-the-religious-basis-of-terrorism.html\">Faraz<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaikh Muhammad Afifi al-Akiti has published a long article fisking an article apparently written by Omar Bakri Muhammad, which calls actions like the Sept 11 hijackings &#8220;a viable option in Jihad&#8221; for Muslims who&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-iR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}