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"Islamic Religious Law Dictates We Join The Taliban's Jihad"
Memri, September 27, 2001
Sheikh Yussuf Al-Qaradhawi, a leading Sunni Muslim religious authority
and the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was among the
Muslim clerics who established that martyrdom operations are permitted
by Islamic law.
After issuing a communiqu condemning the terror attacks on the US, he
appeared on a religious program broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera
channel that focused on the attacks. Following are excerpts from the
discussion:
(1) Sheikh Qaradhawi: "My communiqu condemning these acts of
terrorism, that killed many innocent civilians, is not my first
communiqu [on this matter]... [My objection to terror] is a matter of
principle; it is the position of Islamic religious law..."
"Perhaps they will attack Afghanistan. Perhaps they will attack Yemen,
the Sudan, Lebanon... It is inconceivable that we, the Muslims, should
enter into an alliance against an Islamic state that has not been
proven to have done anything. Who says that Afghanistan, as a state,
took part in [the attacks]? What is 'harboring terrorists' supposed to
mean? Should Egypt be attacked just because Sheikh 'Omar Abd Al-Rahman
is from Egypt? If a group of Algerians do something, should Algeria be
attacked? [Such attacks] cannot be carried out only to appease popular
sentiment..."
In answer to the question, What do you advise the Arab leaders to do
now?: "It's not a matter of advice; there are religious rules that
must be observed. A Muslim is forbidden from entering into an alliance
with a non-Muslim against another Muslim... Allying with others to
kill [Muslims] is collaborating in sin and aggression... It is also
forbidden to hand over Muslims to others. Something like this is
inconceivable. Islamic (Shari'ah) law says that if a Muslim country is
attacked, the other Muslim countries must help it, with their souls
and their money, until it is liberated.
Islam treats Muslims everywhere as one nation, and it does not
recognize geographical borders or [differences of] race, color, or
language. It sees Muslims as one nation in Dar Al-Islam, united in
Islamic belief and Muslim brotherhood. Co-religionists must not rise
up against each other for other peoples' causes, particularly when it
is not proven that the crime was carried out by one of those [Islamic]
countries."
"How can Pakistan aid and abet invading its neighbor and
co-religionist?... How can Pakistan's clerics remain silent? In my
opinion, no Muslim cleric, Arab or otherwise, can in any instance
allow a Muslim to support an invasion of his brother's house in
another's cause."
"There is no doubt that the one who benefits from this crime is the
Zionist entity, which has exploited it in the media, militarily, and
politically..."
"We must differentiate between two types of terror: the terror of
those defending their homeland and their rights... This kind of terror
is legitimate. The Palestinian factions defending their land, such as
Fatah, Hamas, or Islamic Jihad, are not terrorists. [It is] a Jihad
for the sake of Allah..."
"Even if the US is guilty, in that it supports this Israeli terror, I
say that this does not mean that we may attack civilians in the US,
because the civilians are not guilty. We should fight the American
military if we can, and if we cannot, we should fight the US
economically and politically. Let us boycott the US. This is a
tremendous act. At the Durban conference, all the popular
organizations stood against America, until it was forced to withdraw.
This is a legitimate political struggle. [But] Islam does not allow us
to attack and kill civilians..."
"It is absolutely forbidden for Arab and Islamic countries to allow
their bases to be used to attack Afghanistan..."
A viewer sent a fax to the program, which read as follows: "I
personally place the responsibility on the Islamic clerics and
sheikhs, who continuously attacked the Christians with invalid claims,
in the mosques and on the Arab satellite channels, including the Fatwa
recently issued by the Sheikh Qaradhawi himself stating that suicide
operations are not terror and that anyone perpetrating them is a
shahid [martyr]. This has incited many youths to carry out such
suicide attacks..."
Sheikh Qaradhawi responded: "I do not know where he gets these claims,
and involves my name as well. I call for tolerance between religions,
and dialogue even with the secularists... Regarding my Fatwa on the
martyrs - whom he calls suicide attackers - I do not think that [the
viewer] is a Muslim, because I do not think that a Muslim would let an
Islamic homeland like Palestine, and Jerusalem, remain in the hands of
the Zionists, who plunder it and damage its holy sites, without the
owners of the land having the right to defend themselves. All I said
is that this oppressed people that was expelled from its home has the
right to defend itself, and that every man has the right to become a
human bomb and blow himself up inside this military society."
"Israeli society is a military society: Anyone who is not currently a
soldier is a soldier in the reserves. I issued this religious ruling,
and all the Islamic clerics have ruled like me, except for a few
(referring to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia). Hundreds of Muslim clerics
have ruled that these martyrdom operations are one of the most sublime
types of Jihad for the sake of Allah. Many have asked me whether it is
permitted to carry out operations outside of Palestine, and I always
say no. I support what Hamas says, that every martyrdom operation must
be within the lands of Palestine..."
"[If the clerics in Afghanistan call Muslims to Jihad], Muslims must
help as best they can, as they did during the Russian occupation of
Afghanistan... Must the situation be different from what it was during
the Russian occupation only because it involves the Americans?
No...the situation will not be different. We must support the
oppressed against the oppressors." Endnote: (1) Al-Jazeera Television
(Qatar), September 16, 2001.
PRAYER FOCUS: Pray that the world would see clearly the murderous
intent of Islamic teaching against other religions, and particularly
against the Jews. Pray that world leaders would have clear
understanding and wisdom in their dealings with those who oppose godly
beliefs.
SCRIPTURE: "Evil men will bow down in the presence of the good, and
the wicked at the gates of the righteous.Do not those who plot evil go
astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness"
(Prov. 14:19, 22).
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