BS: al-Quida criticized by.....founder

Subject: BS: al-Quida criticized by.....founder
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 10:52 AM

"Qaida founder blasts successor bin Laden for 'immoral terror'"
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

"One of Al-Qaida's founders, Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, has waged a harsh verbal attack on the terrorist organization's leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri."

"Sharif, who is serving a life sentence in a Cairo prison, recently wrote a book in which he said, "every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers."

"The Al-Qaida figurehead also said called the September 11 terror attacks immoral and counterproductive."

"Sharif also criticizes Muslims who move to the West only to perpetrate terror attacks in their adopted countries. "If they gave you permission to enter their homes and live with them, and if they gave you security for yourself and your money, and if they gave you the opportunity to work or study, or they granted you political asylum" wrote Sharif, then it is 'not honorable' to 'betray them, through killing and destruction.'"

Well, it's a start from a Muslim perspective. Perhaps others will follow.

The entire article is at www.haaretz.com

Subject: RE: BS: al-Quida criticized by.....founder
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 22 Feb 09 - 11:01 AM

There was an article on just this subject some while back in the New Yorker - don't know if they keep an archive on-line or not. It does offer a glimmer of hope.