Imam Ali

I was reading this article in Front Page Magazine which, amongst other problems, talked about the lack of responsibility of "Imams", particularly in the West. In the religion of Islam, every muslim male is entitled to lead Friday sermons in the mosque. My hats off to the governments of Turkey, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Algeria and England, which have tightened their grip on Imam's. For instance, Turkish government requires all imam's are required to complete formal studies, where the secular government set the curriculum. In addidtion, they are only allowed to preach if the have a government-provided license.

When imams, legitimate or not, go beyond the limits tolerated by Muslim states, those governments take decisive action. Thus, when Muslim “scholar” Abdul Rehman of Pakistan organized a widely attended service for Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide terrorists, he was arrested; when Ali Belhadj, the former number two of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) of Algeria, supported the murder of Algerian diplomats in Iraq, he was arrested; when Yemeni cleric Ali Yahya supported the rebellion led by the Zaidi cleric Sheikh Badr al-Din al-Huthi, he was sentenced to death.

[Radical] Muslim cleric's need to grow a pair and start to accept some responsibility. Hmm...something is coming to mind here...oh, yeah, Charles Manson! What these radical imams are doing is on a smaller scale of what Bin Laden is doing. And exactly like what Manson did: never committed a murder; yet preached, recruited, indoctrinated and motivated actual murders. Who is responsible? Those damn imam's need to be held accountable. "Oh! Look at me...I am a radical muslim, I can do whatever I want to!"