This is interesting. Moderate Muslims in the UK playing the fatwa card:

Britain's largest Sunni Muslim group yesterday brought the full weight of Islamic law against the perpetrators of the July 7 attacks on London's transport system, issuing a binding religious fatwa against suicide terror. Calling the bombings the work of a "perverted ideology," the Sunni Council declared such actions forbidden by the Qur'an, the Muslim holy book. "Who has given anyone the right to kill others? It is a sin. Anyone who commits suicide will be sent to Hell," Mufti Muhammed Gul Rehman Qadri, the council chairman, told Associated Press. "What happened in London can be seen as a sacrilege. It is a sin to take your life or the life of others." The council warned Muslims not to use "atrocities being committed in Palestine and Iraq" to justify acts that pervert Qu'ranic law. It also condemned "those who may have been behind the masterminding of these acts, those who incited these youths in order to further their own perverted ideology."

The only fatwa I know of is the Salmon Rushdie one issued by the Iranians over his book The Satanic Verses. To a non-Muslim, it sounds a bit, oh, Marvel comics 1969 but good on them. I do not make light of taking the step (among all the other strong reactions from UK Islamic leadership) as it is certainly a strong statement within their faith. But the Rushdie one seemed to have that "Open Season on Salmon Rushdie" aspect to it. Is it open season on cultish murderers, too?