"DE-NIAL" Is not a River in Egypt but another Islamic Falsehood

The voice of the new imam at one of the largest mosques on the East Coast rang loud from the pulpit during Friday services: "The call to reform Islam is an alien call.

" People who do not understand Islam are the ones seeking to change it, said Shaker Elsayed, the new spiritual leader at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington.

"Ignorance comes from outside circles who know nothing about us."

Though his role as the mosque's religious leader is a new one, Elsayed is well known as a civic activist in a large Muslim community that has been subject to sharp scrutiny ever since the Sept. 11 attacks.

His face is a familiar one at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, where he has lent support to area Muslims he sees as victims of a federal witch hunt - from those prosecuted for immigration violations to soliciting treason.

Now lets move overseas. Perhaps things are better there.

JAKARTA - Indonesia's top Islamic council issued a religious edict on Friday forbidding any liberal interpretation of Islam in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

"Religious liberalism is haram (forbidden)," said a fatwa, or doctrine, issued by the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI).

"This is a reminder for Muslims to follow the religion in a correct way and not to try to deviate from the principles," said Ma'aruf Amin, chief the MUI's Fatwa Commission. Another fatwa banned inter-religious marriages in Indonesia where 85 percent of its 220 million follow Islam. but the prize goes to these bozos who never heard of Al-Qaeda.

Sounds like the U.S Democratic leadership, who of late seems to have forgotten that there is a war on.

The most senior Islamic cleric in Birmingham claimed yesterday that Muslims were being unjustly blamed in the war on terrorism and that the eight suspects in the two bombing attacks on London "could have been innocent passengers".

Mohammad Naseem, the chairman of the city's central mosque, called Tony Blair a "liar" and "unreliable witness" and questioned whether CCTV footage issued of the suspected bombers was of the perpetrators.

He said (emulating an ostrich) that Muslims "all over the world have never heard of an organisation called al-Qa'eda".