Isabela City Mayor's Assassination was Fatwa-motivated!
Jade Verde
July 18, 2006
"THE MAN who gunned down Isabela City Mayor Luis Biel II is a Secret Fatwa Accomplice."
These are collective statements from the predominantly Moro beat respondents in Isabela City and the nearby municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), in the Southern Philippines' province of Basilan Island.
"The mayor was killed because he initiated the order to demolish our 13-year old mosque in downtown Isabela," specified the beat respondents.
A certain Ustadz Omar Suhod added: "Demolishing the mosque is an attack to Islam. It is our place of worship, and it is the house of God, and destroying the mosque will only bring troubles because the Muslims are angry. We appeal to our leaders to please spare the mosque".
Mayor Biel was assassinated, and three of his bodyguards were wounded at the front of the City Hall, at around 12.15 PM on Friday of March 3, 2006. The bodyguards fired back and killed the gunman.
Poice authorities had long investigated the attack, accumulated sufficient data and evidences, but prefer to remain silent over who ordered the assassination, or why Biel was killed.
In the Islamic belief, Fatwa (Public or Confidential) is "a Quranic decree from the Islamic church, for a Muslim to kill non-Muslims who resort to insulting, maligning and embarassing the Islamic god and his people". The order of Fatwa goes until fulfilled.
Angry Muslims in the city and neighboring ARMM areas protested Mayor Biel's order to demolish one of the oldest mosque in Isabela City---the Ihya Unsunna mosque---to pave the way for the construction of a market depot. The land where the said mosque was built is actually a government property.
In the practical point of view, there is truth to the report, since majority of the beat respondents are Muslims, and practitioners of Islam within the locality.
It is implanted in the hearts and minds of Muslims that upon the receipt of the Fatwa from the Islamic church leader, the desire for a Jihad fulfillment must be at hand. Hence, upon receipt of the Fatwa, the act of killing is to be upon the target enemy.
Until this press time, Muslim villagers continue to guard the mosque to prevent its demolition.
Aside from the Ihya Unsunna mosque, there are also dozens of mosques in Isabela City, where about 60,000 Muslims pray. Some of these mosques squats on government lots.
The killing of Mayor Biel is indeed an example of a successfully consummated Fatwa mandate, and the Muslim community in the province of Basilan have their "blessed assurance" that upcoming mayors in the said areas will no longer attempt to call for the demolishing of any of their mosques.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
However, a classic examle of an aborted Fatwa case is none other than that of "Satanic Verses" author Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
The grand Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who gave the go-signal for a Fatwa on Rushdie, is dead, and the Iranian government authorities finally came to the conclusion that Rushdie is not guilty at all.
RUSHDIE FATWA LIFTED
The British Government was warmly congratulated by various peace-working organizations, for the principled persistence in successfully seeking and bringing to reality the liberty of Salman Rushdie from enforced exile under threat of death from terrorist forces.
This came right after the Iran government approved for the lifting of the Fatwa against Rushdie.
Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrtazi finally announced that the Iran government is disassociating itself from the "Fatwa" against Rushdie.
Rushdie has been under 24-hour guard since 1989, as Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 Quranic Decree (Fatwa), with the claim that the book "The Satanic Verses" was written against Islam, and was blasphemous and maligning to the Muslims. He called on all Muslims to kill Rushdie and all those involved in the book's publication.
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These are collective statements from the predominantly Moro beat respondents in Isabela City and the nearby municipalities of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), in the Southern Philippines' province of Basilan Island.
"The mayor was killed because he initiated the order to demolish our 13-year old mosque in downtown Isabela," specified the beat respondents.
A certain Ustadz Omar Suhod added: "Demolishing the mosque is an attack to Islam. It is our place of worship, and it is the house of God, and destroying the mosque will only bring troubles because the Muslims are angry. We appeal to our leaders to please spare the mosque".
Mayor Biel was assassinated, and three of his bodyguards were wounded at the front of the City Hall, at around 12.15 PM on Friday of March 3, 2006. The bodyguards fired back and killed the gunman.
Poice authorities had long investigated the attack, accumulated sufficient data and evidences, but prefer to remain silent over who ordered the assassination, or why Biel was killed.
In the Islamic belief, Fatwa (Public or Confidential) is "a Quranic decree from the Islamic church, for a Muslim to kill non-Muslims who resort to insulting, maligning and embarassing the Islamic god and his people". The order of Fatwa goes until fulfilled.
Angry Muslims in the city and neighboring ARMM areas protested Mayor Biel's order to demolish one of the oldest mosque in Isabela City---the Ihya Unsunna mosque---to pave the way for the construction of a market depot. The land where the said mosque was built is actually a government property.
In the practical point of view, there is truth to the report, since majority of the beat respondents are Muslims, and practitioners of Islam within the locality.
It is implanted in the hearts and minds of Muslims that upon the receipt of the Fatwa from the Islamic church leader, the desire for a Jihad fulfillment must be at hand. Hence, upon receipt of the Fatwa, the act of killing is to be upon the target enemy.
Until this press time, Muslim villagers continue to guard the mosque to prevent its demolition.
Aside from the Ihya Unsunna mosque, there are also dozens of mosques in Isabela City, where about 60,000 Muslims pray. Some of these mosques squats on government lots.
The killing of Mayor Biel is indeed an example of a successfully consummated Fatwa mandate, and the Muslim community in the province of Basilan have their "blessed assurance" that upcoming mayors in the said areas will no longer attempt to call for the demolishing of any of their mosques.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
However, a classic examle of an aborted Fatwa case is none other than that of "Satanic Verses" author Ahmed Salman Rushdie.
The grand Islamic leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who gave the go-signal for a Fatwa on Rushdie, is dead, and the Iranian government authorities finally came to the conclusion that Rushdie is not guilty at all.
RUSHDIE FATWA LIFTED
The British Government was warmly congratulated by various peace-working organizations, for the principled persistence in successfully seeking and bringing to reality the liberty of Salman Rushdie from enforced exile under threat of death from terrorist forces.
This came right after the Iran government approved for the lifting of the Fatwa against Rushdie.
Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrtazi finally announced that the Iran government is disassociating itself from the "Fatwa" against Rushdie.
Rushdie has been under 24-hour guard since 1989, as Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 Quranic Decree (Fatwa), with the claim that the book "The Satanic Verses" was written against Islam, and was blasphemous and maligning to the Muslims. He called on all Muslims to kill Rushdie and all those involved in the book's publication.
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