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Muslims should fight U.S. in Iraq: cleric
Tehran Times ^ | September 4, 2004 | Al-jazeerah via Tehran Times

Posted on 09/03/2004 7:10:55 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John

CAIRO (Aljazeera) --An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S. civilians, his office director has said.

But the cleric, Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, said that two French journalists kidnapped in Iraq should be freed immediately. "All of them (U.S. military personnel and civilians) are invaders who came from their country to invade our country and fighting them [in Iraq] is a duty," said his office director Essam Talima on Thursday, quoting a fatwa or ruling on religious law by al-Qaradawi.

Al-Qaradawi is revered in much of the Muslim world for his intellectual rigor and ability to adapt the fundamental tenets of Islam to the modern world.

The cleric was quoted by pan-Arab daily newspaper Al-Hayat as saying that the French journalists should be freed.

"If those kidnappers care about the reputation of Islam they should free the two French journalists," the newspaper quoted him saying.

Al-Qaradawi said the presence of the French journalists "broke the American monopoly on relaying information and facts (on the situation in Iraq) to the outside world". He also referred to France's foreign policy in dealing with the Islamic and Arab worlds, which he said could serve as an example to other countries. "If those kidnappers care about the reputation of Islam they should free the two French journalists"

Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi The kidnapping of Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot on 20 August by a group called the Islamic Army in Iraq has deeply shocked France which was a fierce opponent of the U.S.-led invasion and has no troops in Iraq.

The kidnappers have demanded that Paris rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves and other conspicuous religious symbols from state schools. The deadline passed on Wednesday and France enforced the ban from Thursday.

Al-Qaradawi was one of 93 prominent Muslim figures who in August called on Muslims around the world to support resistance against U.S. forces in Iraq and its appointed interim Iraqi government. After the 11 September 2001 attacks al-Qaradawi urged Muslims worldwide to donate blood to help the victims and also condemned the 2002 Bali bombing as barbaric and immoral but he caused controversy during a visit to Britain in July after condoning some attacks by human bombers against military targets. Reuters


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaradawi; cair; cairsilentonchechnya; egypt; france; islam; islamicarmyiniraq; muslims; nocaircondemnation; religionofpeace; rop; silenceissupport; silenceofcair; whereiscair
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To: blam

With the reputation of Islam being as it is, the beheading of two Frenchmen (not advocating it for a moment) might even improve it.


21 posted on 09/03/2004 7:53:58 PM PDT by luvbach1 (President Bush is conservative only when compared with the commies allied against him.)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Gee, Al Jazeera and Tehran Times. There's a combo.


23 posted on 09/03/2004 7:58:23 PM PDT by Brooklyn Kid
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Kill the SOB and you won't have to worry about him anymore.


24 posted on 09/03/2004 7:58:28 PM PDT by CurlyBill (John Kerry is PeeWee Herman in a Frankenstein costume)
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To: Bommer

I would love to see what u said:

..."You'd see Mullahs slaughtered by the thousands by regular muslims who finally stand up for their religion."...


25 posted on 09/03/2004 8:05:25 PM PDT by jolie560
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

He should be handed a rocket launcher, an AK, and a spare towel, and then parachuted into Iraq.


26 posted on 09/03/2004 8:08:24 PM PDT by JATO (jihad does NOT translate as "holy war" it translates as "TOTAL WAR". Ask Hiroshima...)
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To: LiberalBassTurds
This cult has outlived its usefulness.

I was unaware that Islam ever had any use at all.

Thank you for enlightening me.
27 posted on 09/03/2004 8:19:18 PM PDT by RonHolzwarth ("History repeats itself - first as tragedy, then as farce" - Karl Marx)
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To: nuconvert

If you don't like doing it based on citizenship then I'd be happy if a similar plan was adopted based on residency. No complaint from me either way!


28 posted on 09/03/2004 8:24:12 PM PDT by American Soldier
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

The U.S. JUST CONDUCTED A LOTTERY for granting citizenship to SELECTED foreign nationals trying to establish themselves here. The Countries included in the lottery were those judged "under-represented" in the present American population.

GUESS WHICH WAS ONE OF THE COUNTRIES WAS GIVEN A LARGE NUMBER OF CHANCES IN THIS LOTTERY???


EGYPT!!!!!!


The West and the U.S. has to WAKE UP from its somnolence.

Each Madrasseh, each Mosque, each new Islamic immigrant, is another cocked gun pointed at our heads, our children's heads, and our children's children's heads.

What happened in Russia can and WILL happen here unless we INSIST our government and our leaders STOP the continued FLOOD of Islamic invaders into America, and put those already here under the closest scrutiny.

For the sake of our CHILDREN we must prevent a repitition of the act of Fiendish horror committed in Russia in our own backyard.

Its beyond time to cut out the politically correct insanity.


29 posted on 09/03/2004 8:24:46 PM PDT by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns)
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To: Doe Eyes
And I would like to see a joint cleansing effort. They sure as heck won't police themselves so "Allah" should do it during virgin assignments.
mc
30 posted on 09/03/2004 8:27:00 PM PDT by mcshot ("When you don't think too good, don't think too much" Ted Williams)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

This cretin needs a date with a Hellfire.


31 posted on 09/03/2004 8:28:05 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: American Soldier

Don't forget that Egypt was a Nazis asylum after World War II, like Argentina. Alois Brunner, Leopold Gleim, Oskar Dirlewanger, and untold thousands of Nazis and Nazis collaborator monsters were given shelter in Egypt. Brunner is Adolf Eichmann's lieutenant, who is now in Syria. Gleim is head of the Polish division of the Gestapo and SS Colonial, who was the head of the Egyptian police force. Mosser is a SS General who killed Ukrainian Jews and was an aide to Nasser.


32 posted on 09/03/2004 8:30:22 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
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To: American Soldier

I point it out, because that's where our planes that used to be in Saudi are now.
A little cooperation from the gov't there would be nice.


33 posted on 09/03/2004 8:30:43 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: Ptarmigan

Sorry, I forgot to mention who Dirlewanger was. He was a SS general known for his brutality.


34 posted on 09/03/2004 8:31:21 PM PDT by Ptarmigan
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Refuse US visas to any person who is Moslem. Require them to renounce Islam, to get a visa.


35 posted on 09/03/2004 8:34:31 PM PDT by Tax Government (Promote democracy: help drive the democRat party to extinction.)
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To: Robert_Paulson2

Americans have yet to face up to what Islam really is, and we have not yet done that. We have tended to think of them as civilized people, and they are not that.


36 posted on 09/03/2004 8:37:02 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: RonHolzwarth
This cult has outlived its usefulness.

I was unaware that Islam ever had any use at all. Thank you for enlightening me.


Actually it did...about 1,200 years ago. It united the Arabian Peninsula. Since then it's been all downhill.

LBT

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37 posted on 09/03/2004 8:52:16 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Al Qaeda needs to know we are fluent in the "dialogue of bullets.")
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To: RonHolzwarth
And you're welcome.

LBT

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38 posted on 09/03/2004 8:52:55 PM PDT by LiberalBassTurds (Al Qaeda needs to know we are fluent in the "dialogue of bullets.")
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To: Bommer

Since the US lacks any real balls to send the Islamic world a message, I really hope that Putin does. He should pick the most populated Islamic cities in Chechnya and nuke them, Hydrogen bomb and all. Then tell the Arab world that the next attack by Islamic facists and "we'll nuke Medenia and then Meeca." Knowing that they possess the capability to do this and that they are a 3rd world sh!t hole, I would bet that Islam backs off in a hurry. You'd see Mullahs slaughtered by the thousands by regular muslims who finally stand up for their religion




Too late for that suggestion.

Main city in Chechnya, Grozny, was leveled several years ago (albeit with conventional rather than nuclear bombs).
http://www.hrvc.net/main.htm

Tens of thousands died, and the Russian army has been chasing the survivors into the surrounding hills for years. This week's assault on the school is one more action in this ongoing war.
http://www.hrvc.net/htmls/reports.htm

There will no doubt be more.


39 posted on 09/03/2004 9:17:45 PM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Amazing what a twenty cent bullet could do to make the world a better place.


40 posted on 09/03/2004 9:25:51 PM PDT by Fast1
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