Fatwa To Commit Murder Is A Terrorist Act Fatwa for the murder of dissidents and intellectuals who are opposed to the traditions and notoriously vile activities of Islam has a long history: “Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks…” Quran 47:4 In the long history of all religions, millions of humans who were not willing to kneel down to their spiritual and religious leaders’ demands have been issued fatwas to be assassinated. Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa on Salman Rushdie and the mass murder of tens of thousands of dissidents are and can be considered systematic terrorism against humanity. Shahin Najafi, a Persian musician songwriter is not famed like Rushdie, yet has been convicted to death by another Ayatollah, again with no due process, for the “sin” of composing a song deemed by the officious Islamic clergy, Ayatollah Golpaygani, as an affront to Shiite Imams. The way these high priest Islamic parasites operate is nothing short of international religious terrorism. They consider it their prerogative to pronounce death sentences on anyone of any nationality anywhere in the world that offends their sensibilities. With their tentacles reaching every corner of the globe, these Islamic Godfathers unleash their lieutenants and soldiers on anyone who dares to in any way challenge their code of murder and mayhem billed as Allah’s sole valid religion for all of humanity. What are the differences between political terror/assassination, religious terror and fatwas against dissidents, we ask? Why counterterrorism agencies, international authorities and goverments in the West have not and will not approach these individuals or this subject when dealing with this inhuman act of barbarity? Why do they condemn political terrorism when they fail to address fatwa terrorism by appeasing those who issue fatwas against the dissidents? What is the difference between a Muslim cleric's fatwa to kill dissidents and those of Al Qaeda terrorists? The international community must drag Imams, Mullahs and Muftis who engage in these criminal acts to a court of law and after due process meted out their due punishment, in the same way that any criminal is processed by a just and civilized society. Where do these Islamic clerics get their authority to make life and death pronouncements? They claim it’s from the Quran, for one. A book that was compiled some 1400 years ago by the primitive savages of Arabia and presumed, as Allah’s word-for-word. Free people and nations should not sacrifice their God-given liberty to please the Islamists by muzzling dissenters and even endangering their safety and their lives. In the final analysis, international terrorism has roots in both a political and religious entity. There is no difference between a Mafia Godfather issuing a death sentence on people who do not toe his line and a turbaned Islamist who masquerades as the authorized agent of Allah to run and ruin peoples’ lives by fiat and political terrorists. All civilized people, governments, NGOs and other international agencies, must condemn both groups. The civilized free people of the world have paid the ultimate price far too many times in the past and are not likely to shirk their responsibility of fighting off the resurgence of the scourge of Islamism—a cult of intolerance and violence that has shed and continues to shed the blood of far too many people.