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”.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.
Qaradawi, it may be recalled, said that suicide bombing was an Islamic obligation and refused to be seen on the same stage as any Jews. The IUMS is hardly an arbiter of what is morally acceptable. (And their fatwas are anything but "rare.")
More interesting was the reaction from a prominent Salafi cleric in Egypt:
The head of the Salafi Call (Nour Party) in Egypt , Sheikh Yasser Borhamy, sparked widespread controversy by attacking the International Union of Muslim Scholars after it issued a fatwa urging support for the people of Gaza in the face of the brutal Israeli aggression.Borhamy said in a video on Saturday that the fatwa issued by the IUMS regarding the necessity of Islamic countries to support the Palestinians militarily is wrong and unrealistic.Borhamy held the people of Gaza and its resistance responsible for the ongoing massacres, saying that they decided to enter the war unilaterally and not in consultation with other Muslims, with the alleged exception of Iran.
This is the first time I've ever heard that the concept of FAFO applied in Islamic jurisprudence.
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