Several prominent Muslim scholars have issued a rare religious decree or “fatwa”, calling on all Muslims and Muslim-majority countries to wage “jihad” against Israel after 17 months of devastating war against Palestinians residing in the besieged enclave.
Ali al-Qaradaghi, the secretary general of the International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), an organisation previously led by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, called on all Muslim countries on Friday “to intervene immediately militarily, economically and politically to stop this genocide and comprehensive destruction, in accordance with their mandate”.
“The failure of the Arab and Islamic governments to support Gaza while it is being destroyed is considered by Islamic law to be a major crime against our oppressed brothers in Gaza,” he said in the decree comprising some 15 points.
Qaradaghi is one of the region’s most respected religious authorities and his decrees carry significant weight among the world’s 1.7bn Sunni Muslims.
No, Israel wants them to be quiet and do nothing while they eviscerate their cities and kill their citizens.
Maybe you should be locked up somewhere for your gross views that generalize millions of people and wishes to “let them kill each other”.
Things decent people say, surely.
There is no reason for the Muslim-majority countries to react with a religious argument instead of strong and even violent political and civil action.
Israel needs Hamas and other Islamist groups to legitimate their actions.
I lived 41 years on this Earth, born a Catholic, always been fascinated by religious difference as a child, only to see religious people being always at the root of the biggest scandals, massacres and inhuman actions in the world.
Religions are the most common and ancient method with which elites split humanity in groups and pit them against each other for their own gain, apart from being used to exploit young, disabled and other vulnerable people to gain money, power or force them to sexual acts and other atrocities.
An inquisitive rational person who is also genuinely religious defies all of my experience and any logic argument that I know can be thrown at it.