{"id":153,"date":"2004-04-02T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2004-04-02T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T03:44:00","slug":"153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Mutilation bad, murder … well, OK<\/strong><\/p>\n

I thought that the right-wing bloggers might have made this one up, but it’s true. The Council on American Islamic Relations, a self-described civil-rights organization, issued a press release<\/a> condemning the mutilation of the bodies of the four American civilians killed in Falujah, Iraq, on Wednesday, 31 March.<\/p>\n

The Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group cited a tradition of the Prophet Muhammad that prohibits mutilating bodies (Hadith 654.3). <\/em><\/p>\n

Not the murders, mind you. Evidently the killing was Islamic. But mutilating corpses and hanging them from a bridge over the Euphrates River is un-Islamic.
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Mutilation bad, murder … well, OK I thought that the right-wing bloggers might have made this one up, but it’s true. The Council on American Islamic Relations, a self-described civil-rights organization, issued a press release condemning the mutilation of the bodies of the four American civilians killed in Falujah, Iraq, on Wednesday, 31 March. 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