Beware of fatwa

Below John discusses the news of the “fatwa” purportedly condemning terrorism issued by a group of American Islamic leaders under the auspices of CAIR. Among the few experts whose opinion I would attend to on the meaning of the supposed fatwa are Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson. Emerson has now rendered his verdict on the Counterterroris Blog in “The American Islamic leaders’s ‘fatwa’ is bogus.” I think you can assume until further notice that this “fatwa” has a lot in common with “hudna.” (Thanks to reader Kathleen French Miller.)