Well, that's a good thing. We'll never see any more of them now...
Indonesia's leading Islamic authority has passed a religious decree against suicide bombing. The Council of Indonesian Muslim Scholars has also made a series of distinctions excluding acts of terrorism from any definition of jihad. The Indonesian council of Ulemas, or religious teachers, ruled that suicide bombing was forbidden, falling outside any Koranic interpretation of martyrdom for a good cause. At the council meeting in Jakarta, significant time was spent discussing terrorist attacks, before a further decree was issued forbidding any destructive attacks that were randomly targeted and caused fear and terror. The Marriott Hotel bombing earlier this year and last year's Bali attacks were discussed during the debate. Suicide bombers are thought to have been involved in both of those attacks.
| Gosh! Y'think they were? And what, pray tell, is the penalty for violating the rule against suicide attacks? |
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