The head of the Fiqh Council and main spokesman in their highly publicized fatwa against “terrorism” is Muzammil H. Siddiqi.

“Suicide bombing is forbidden in Islam,” said Muzammil H. Siddiqi, head of the Fiqh Council. “This is not the solution, it is not the right way of doing things. Occupation is wrong, of course, but at the same time this is not the way.”

Kenneth Timmerman reports what Siddiqi was saying a few years ago, when no one was paying attention except the American ummah:

Among the guests in this afternoon’s panel discussion is Muzammil Siddiqi, who until November 2001 was president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a leading Wahhabi front organization in the United States. Wahhabism is a radical form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia and advocated by al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his terrorist leaders.

Siddiqi has accompanied visiting Saudi officials from the Muslim World League on fund-raising tours across America, and is listed on its Website as the organization’s official representative in the United States. Offices of the Muslim World League in Herndon, Va., were raided by a federal antiterrorism task force in March 2002 because of suspected ties to al-Qaeda.

During an anti-Israel rally outside the White House on Oct. 28, 2000, Siddiqi openly threatened the United States with violence if it continued its support of Israel. “America has to learn … if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come. Please, all Americans. Do you remember that? … If you continue doing injustice, and tolerate injustice, the wrath of God will come.” By “injustice,” he meant U.S. support for Israel.

Siddiqi also has called for a wider application of sharia law in the United States, and in a 1995 speech praised suicide bombers. “Those who die on the part of justice are alive, and their place is with the Lord, and they receive the highest position, because this is the highest honor,” he was quoted as saying by the Kansas City Star on Jan. 28, 1995.

UPDATE at 7/29/05 2:44:47 pm:

More on Siddiqi, in an LGF post from May 2004: Media Ignore Siddiqi’s Radicalism. (They’re still ignoring it.)