{"id":519,"date":"2008-02-29T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/02\/prominent-muslim-seminary-cond.php"},"modified":"2008-02-29T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:15:15","slug":"prominent-muslim-seminary-cond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/02\/prominent-muslim-seminary-cond","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Muslim Seminary Condemns Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Achal Narayanan<br \/>\nReligion News Service<\/strong><br \/>\nCHENNAI, India (RNS) An influential group of Muslim theologians at a prominent Islamic seminary in northern India have denounced terrorism, saying it is goes against the teachings of Islam.<br \/>\nThe denouncement came during the All India Anti-Terrorism Conference in the state of Uttar Pradesh, home to the 150-year-old Darul Uloom Deoband Islamic seminary.<br \/>\nOpening the conference, the seminary&#8217;s vice chancellor, Maulana Margoobur Rahman, called terrorism a thoughtless act that is &#8220;un-Islamic&#8221; and prohibited by the Quran.<br \/>\n&#8220;Islam preaches the tenets of peace, justice and brotherhood. There is no place for terror and violence in Islam,&#8221; Rahamn said in his address, which was read by a deputy. &#8220;Allah will never have mercy on those elements who think they are serving the faith by perpetrating violence.&#8221;<br \/>\nRahman also objected to the term &#8220;Islamic terrorism,&#8221; saying Muslims have &#8220;blindly accepted this term thrust upon us by the Americans.&#8221;<br \/>\nSeminary officials, who have issued more than 700,000 fatwas (religious edicts) over the years, cautioned that the latest declaration was not a fatwa. The seminary, however, is recognized as a renowned religious and academic center with influence over the Islamic world, especially in South and Southeast Asia.<br \/>\nThe seminary&#8217;s general secretary, Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, convened the conference and said top clerics arrived at a common definition of terrorism: &#8220;Any action that targets innocents, whether by an individual or by any government and its agencies, or by a private organization anywhere in the world, constitutes, according to Islam, an act of terrorism.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>Copyright 2008 Religion News Service. All rights reserved.  No part of this transmission may be distributed or reproduced without written permission.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Achal Narayanan Religion News Service CHENNAI, India (RNS) An influential group of Muslim theologians at a prominent Islamic seminary in northern India have denounced terrorism, saying it is goes against the teachings of Islam. 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