Marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Tofik Dibi, a Dutch Muslim member of parliament has called on Muslims around the world to issue a final fatwa against terrorism to help end a decade of hijacking Islam.Muslims make up one million of the Netherlands’s 16 million population, mostly from Turkish and Moroccan origin.
The Muslim lawmaker said his campaign, titled "The Last Fatwa”, offers an opportunity for the world to hear the voice of the "reasonable Muslims". Dibi said: "the voice of free-thinking Muslims needs to be heard," Dibi said.
“They are the ones standing up for freedom and democracy in the Middle East, and North Africa during the Arab Spring, and we hope this campaign will help to show that the majority of Muslims dream of freedom and democracy just like everyone else.”
A Britain-based Muslim scholar, Sheikh Tahir ul-Qadri, also issued a 600-page fatwa in May 2011, condemning suicide bombings, kidnappings and the killing of innocent people as “absolutely against the teachings of Islam”.
Dibi who is a rising star in the Dutch Greens political party confirmed that the new campaign appeals to the reasonable sounds of Muslims to reflect the true nature of Islam. “I’m appealing to common sense and refer to individual freedom," he said. “We all experience Islam in our own way.”
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