I wonder if the various Islamic issuers of fatwas calling
upon Muslims to kill the Pope have given any thought to
the possible response from the West should they try, or
succeed, in killing the Pope.

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Paper no. 1974
2.10. 2006

LET ISSUES FATWA TO KILL THE POPE
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO.133
By B.Raman

Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for
Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People, which is headed
by Osama bin Laden, the Markaz-ud-Dawa (MUD) of Pakistan, which is
the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), is reported to have
issued a Fatwa calling upon the Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for
a recent speech of his delivered on September 12,2006, which has been
projected as anti-Islam by Al Qaeda and other jihadi terrorist
organisations of the world.

2. The issue of the MUD fatwa came a few days before the latest
video message of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No.2, in which
he has made a severe attack on the Pope.

3. A report on the the MUD Fatwa to kill the Pope has been
carried by the Pakistani journal "Ausaf" in its issue dated September
18,2006. It has reported as follows:

"Pakistan's Jamaat-ud-Dawa has issued a Fatwa asking the Muslim
community to kill Pope Benedict for his blasphemous statement about
Prophet Mohammad. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has declared death to Pope
Benedict and said that in today's world blasphemy of the Holy Koran
and the Prophet has become a fashion.

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