Let's hope we get more such condemnations -- and that the "rank-and-file" Muslims start turning in thosse who are in violation, whether they are neighbors or family membrs.

The Sunni Council denounced the bombings as anti-Islamic and said the Koran, the Muslim holy book, forbade suicide attacks.

"Who has given anyone the right to kill others? It is a sin. Anyone who commits suicide will be sent to Hell," said Mufti Muhammad Gul Rehman Qadri, the council chairman. "What happened in London can be seen as a sacrilege. It is a sin to take your life or the life of others."

The council said Muslims should not use "atrocities being committed in Palestine and Iraq" to justify attacks such as those in London that killed 55 when suicide bombers struck in three Underground trains and a double-decker bus, the fatwa declared.

"We equally condemn those who may have been behind the masterminding of these acts, those who incited these youths in order to further their own perverted ideology," Mr. Qadri said.

Now I won't get into the moral equivalency argument there, something that I fundamentally reject.

This may be a good start -- if it is followed through on.with full cooperation in rooting out every last pro-terrorist Islamist.

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