Well, I hate to say it, but this is what I thought originally: Al-Qaida, or an al-Qaida linked group, was behind yesterday's TERRORIST (scroll down a couple of posts to see why I capitalized it) attacks in Bali.
Of course, in the terrorists' warped thinking, the bombings are justified, because they're attacking westerners and "enemies of Islam." As of this writing, twelve of the fatalities have been identified as Indonesians, probably all of them were Muslims.
That brings us to Council on American Islamic Relations, better known as CAIR. Shortly after the London 7/7 bombings, but just short of three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, CAIR sponsored a fatwa, or religious decree, forbidding terrorism.
It was at best a "good start," because no group or individual was by name condemned in the fatwa.
Visiting CAIR's web site just now, there is no condemnation of the Bali bombings, no denunciation of al-Qaida or the Indonesian al-Qaida group likely behind those attacks: Jemaah Islamiyah.
Here's your big chance, CAIR.
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