A Spanish clerical council issued a religious decree today, the anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, saying Osama bin Laden has forsaken Islam. Neither it, nor the anniversary of the bombings, made the top stories on NBC News.
Will this free other moderate clerics to doing the same? Will this open the door for Iraqi clerics who are tired of seeing their people killed by zealots? Will a Kurdish cleric seek to separate themselves from Arab zealotry? Will an African-American cleric?
Why did it take so long for a fatwa to be issued against the radically violent bin Laden?