The Fatwa of the Islamic Council

Is it motivated by sanctimony or is it a state 

of moral uncertainty that prevails when judging

which is the greater offence against a deity 

in pronouncing a learned judgement? What is 

more sacrilegious, what is deemed to be an 

unacceptable slur with grave clarity against the

almighty perceived by a critical mind on the basis 

of observation, or continued and relentless acts 

of murderous intention on the part of those posing 

as defenders of the faith who will adamantly not 

brook challenges to the sanctity of territory 

consecrated to a belief contrary to the ancestral faith 

that gave impetus to their own? A fatwa issued by

an imperiously elite cleric whose ruling incites

terrorism meting out a death sentence to a writer 

sardonically nettling his faith as then opposed to 

the fatwa seeking to isolate the grisly group whose 

aspiration is to annihilate an entire people to 

satisfy blood lust and an ancient enmity anchored 

in a death cult motivated by the spirit of conquest.