U.S. Muslims Won't Excommunicate Boko Haram

U.S. Muslim groups won't excommunicate Boko Haram -- They can't cite Islamic texts that contradict Boko's argument ... 

-- from the RedFlag News

     (by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch) -- Notice that the Daily Caller's Neil Munro repeatedly asks Muslim leaders in the U.S. to offer Islamic counter-arguments to Boko Haram's claims for Islamic justification for its actions, and they refuse to do so. This is, as I am quoted as saying in this piece, because they can't.
     "US Muslim groups won't move to excommunicate Boko Haram," by Neil Munro, Daily Caller, May 12, 2014:
     U.S. Islamic leaders won't try to formally excommunicate the Islamist Boko Haram group unless they can meet with its leadership to debate the religious legitimacy of its actions, a spokesman for a leading mosque told The Daily Caller.
     "There is a great reluctance to excommunicate someone by extension. … It would be like convicting someone in absentia," said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, the spokesman for the "Home of the Migrants" mosque, or Dar Al Hijrah mosque, in Falls Church Va. If crimes have been committed, the Nigerian government should punish the individuals, he added.
     On May 7, Abdul Malik led a group of Muslim advocates at a press conference at the National Press Club, where they denied that Islamic strictures are shaping Boko Haram's years-long campaign of killing and kidnapping Christians.
     "Islam is not the problem," said Ahmed Bedier, a Florida-based Islamic advocate. "We're tired of people coming on television and asking where does this ideology come from," Bedier said. "Well, this ideology comes from nowhere," he insisted….
     At his May 7 event, Abdul-Malik urged Boko Haram to change its view of Islam, even as he declined to challenge its religious claims. "Groups like Boko Haram desire to take us back to a medieval … world where kidnapping of women and girls and enslavement and rape are acceptable," he said.
     "The world has changed … [and] in particular we are saying as modern day Muslims that we now rejectall of these acts and that they are contrary to our faith," he said.
     However, Abdul-Malik didn't promise any religious or political action by U.S. Islamic groups. When pressed May 9 by TheDC to cite Islamic texts that contradict Boko Haram's Islamist arguments, Abdul-Malik quickly ended the phone call….
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