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December 31, 2004
Iraq: Terror groups call voting un-Islamic
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesFrom Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch comes news of another terrorist tactic to combat democracy - claiming that voting is "un-Islamic." Although this report from the Washington times indicates that all of the 700 election workers in Mosul have resigned, the BBC News UK has a report that the head of Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission says that such reports by the al-Jazeera Arabic TV channel are not true and that they still have their staff in Mosul and al-Anbar.
(Click image to enlarge - worker puts up election poster in Baghdad)
BAGHDAD -- The radical Ansar al-Sunnah Army and two other terrorist groups issued a statement yesterday, warning Iraqis not to vote in the Jan. 30 election because democracy is un-Islamic.
"Democracy is a Greek word meaning the rule of the people, which means that the people do what they see fit," the groups said in a warning. "This concept is considered apostasy and defies the belief in one God -- Muslims' doctrine."
Democracy leads to passing un-Islamic laws, such as permitting
homosexual "marriage," if the majority agrees, the terrorists said.
After the warning was issued, all 700 employees of the
electoral commission in Mosul, Iraq, resigned, the Arab satellite
channel Al Jazeera reported.
Farid Ayar, spokesman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said he was not able to confirm the Al Jazeera report. Read more in the Washington Times...
Read the more extensive report in BBC News UK .....
Posted by Hyscience at December 31, 2004 8:59 AM
The part about the election workers quiting is not true because terrorist groups have said this several times in the past without anyone quiting. It's just another case of Al Jazeera reporting what they want to report with weak leads to a story.
Posted by: Chad Evans at December 31, 2004 11:13 AM
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