Muslim cleric praises suicide bombings against any Israeli

Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet) ^ | 16 Apr 2002 | AFP

[grimalkin]

CAIRO, April 16 (AFP) - A suicide attack against any Israeli, even a civilian, is the "highest level of martyrdom," a Qatari-based Muslim cleric declared here Tuesday.

Yussef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian, issued his remarks to reporters covering a conference of clerics from Arab and Muslim countries, including some who opposed such attacks on civilians.

"Suicide attacks represent the highest level of martyrdom, because there are no civilians in Israel. It's a militarist society," Sheikh Qaradawi told reporters.

Meanwhile, the imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Mohammed Sayyed Tantawi, the highest authority in Sunni Islam, narrowed the target for suicide bombers to Israeli "aggressors," though he did not define who they were.

"Whoever blows himself up in the middle of (Israeli) aggressors, will attain the highest level of martyrdom," Sheikh Tantawi said, apparently referring to Israeli soldiers or armed settlers.

"But whoever blows himself up amid innocent civilians is not a martyr," the sheikh said at the opening of the conference dubbed "This is Islam," which is organized by Al-Azhar.

In December, Sheikh Qaradawi sharply criticized Sheikh Tantawi for having condemned any attacks on civilians following a wave of anti-Israeli bombings.

Egyptian Prime Minister Atef Ebeid read a speech to the conference on behalf of President Hosni Mubarak, which said Sharia, or Islamic law, stipulates that whoever dies defending himself is a "martyr."

"Sharia indicates that whoever dies defending his rights, liberty, dignity, his territory and his religion is a martyr," Ebeid said, quoting Mubarak.

The conference, which is scheduled to end on Thursday, seeks to "clarify the message of Islam for humanity."

[Bahbah]

I have just realized that the propensity for these imams to speak out for attribution is terrific and it will lose them the support of the civilized nations, however anti-semitic some may be. They will not want to ally themselves with people who take the position that babies can be slaughtered because they are "militants". Talk about losing the PR war.

[swarthyguy]

I believe this is the same guy who put out this fartwa!
Charity for terror

[dennisw]

 

CAIRO, April 16 (AFP) - A suicide attack against any Israeli, even a civilian, is the "highest level of martyrdom," a Qatari-based Muslim cleric declared here Tuesday.

Yussef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian, issued his remarks to reporters covering a conference of clerics from Arab and Muslim countries, including some who opposed such attacks on civilians.

"Suicide attacks represent the highest level of martyrdom, because there are no civilians in Israel. It's a militarist society," Sheikh Qaradawi told reporters.

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[My Identity]

A suicide attack against any Israeli, even a civilian, is the "highest level of martyrdom"
- Yussef al-Qaradawi, Muslim cleric, Qatar

So, Muslims believe the Arab-Israeli conflict is religious.
Therefore, compromise with the Israelis is a heresey.
Therefore, the "peace process" is a sham.
Therefore, only complete victory by one side will bring peace.

Thanks to TomGuy for much of the above.

MORAL CLARITY
An honorable, moral solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Isn't the only honorable way to "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict through the use "ethnic cleansing?" (And by that term I mean the polite, but forceful removal of all 3 million Pali from Eretz Yisrael -- which is not "genocide", as some on the Left misuse the term.) Let me explain.

The current wave of "suicide" bombers (a misnomer, since their primary goal is not suicide but the mass murder of civilians) is unprecedented and unrelenting. But it should not be unexpected. It is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as kindergarteners. Look at the faces of the babies in the pictures above. What vomitous horror - visiting this upon their heads. What unspeakable evil.

The Palestinian descent into barbarism does not have some dimly-lit origin. The homicidal-bombers are not some unforseen phenomenom that sprung forth from the "hopelessness" of the populace (as the PA "leaders" would have us believe). They are part and parcel of the war machine created by the PA to wreak systematic havoc on Israel. Someone was paid to train -- or more accurately, brainwash -- the Pali youth. Someone was paid to buy the explosives and make the bombs. Someone was paid to search out and plan a path to a weak spot in Israeli defenses. Someone was paid to store the bombs and then give these homicidal-bombers their weapons. Someone was paid to videotape their farewell messages. Someone was paid to transport these homicidal-bombers across security lines. Someone paid the family tens of thousands of dollars specifically for their "martyrdom." And, as we are now learning, those paymasters include Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Saudi elite.

The PA has not been preparing its people for peace, but radicalizing them for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. The PA has appointed militant clerics who preach hate and "martyrdom". By doing so, they have knowingly turned this into a religious war, one in which compromise is heretical. And in doing so, the Palestinians have rejected the Oslo premise that the conflict is about borders, about which compromise is required. Indeed, as Henry Kissinger has noted:

In reality, the number of Palestinian leaders... who want peace in the Western sense -- as a point after which the world lives free of tensions with a consciousness of reconciliation -- is minuscule. The fundamental schism is between those who want to bring about the destruction of Israel by continuing the present struggle, and those who believe that an agreement now would be a better strategy to rally forces for the ultimate showdown later on.

The result of Arafat's strategy of hatred is now known: Pali society cannot co-exist in peace with Israel. Recent polls tell the story clearly. Over 87% of the Palis support the murder of Israeli men, women, and children, even babies. Given these numbers and the underlying religious fervor, there is NO POSSIBILITY of a negotiated settlement that would be honored by the Palis within their lifetime. Arafat has filled the Palis with visceral hate to prepare them for unrelenting war. He has brainwashed an entire generation of youngsters to become terror-bombers. He has unleashed almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination on the Pali people. Arafat has committed crimes not only against the entire populace of Israel, but against Palestinians and their children as well. Truly, these are Crimes against Humanity.

Current conditions make ethnic cleansing not only justified, but morally required. As antithetical as it sounds to liberal ears, ethnic cleansing is literally the only humane solution. To pursue a negotiated settlement is akin to locking a tiger and a human with a gun in the same cage. Assign the roles to whomever you wish, but the result is the same. Someone in the cage is eventually going to be killed, maybe both.

The world community's role in this to date has been to create this inhumane spectacle, this caged, semitic death match. The world community's response going forward ought to be the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Nazi Germany" because nothing less will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Arab peoples from Gaza and the West Bank (because once you eliminate the terrorists, their supporters and their families, virtually nobody is left). Then round up the PA "leaders" (including "clerics" and "teachers"), and put them on trial for their Crimes against Humanity. If they are found guilty, hang them in public.

And to the extent that this PA policy was conducted, funded, supported, promoted, or otherwise enabled by their Arab bretheren (notably Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) then it is incumbent upon these countries to pay for their sins by taking in the Palis. Arabs created this mess. Let Arabs bear the toll for the human misery they created.

Even Tom Friedman of the New York Times has come around, finally grasping the global ramifications of Arafat's evil:

"...all they [the Palestinian leaders] can agree on is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build... Let's be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice... This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber... with a nuclear device threatening entire nations."

What is needed is the elimination of this cancer on humanity. End it quickly before more innocent lives are lost. End it now or it will escalate to Weapons of Mass Destruction. End it clearly and with finality so that there is absolutely NO ambiguity that civilization finds this abhorent. If nothing else, as a sop to liberal sensibilities, end it for the children. Moral clarity demands nothing less.

[BenF]

it will lose them the support of the civilized nations

Wanna bet?

[RnMomof7]

"Whoever blows himself up in the middle of (Israeli) aggressors, will attain the highest level of martyrdom," Sheikh Tantawi said, apparently referring to Israeli soldiers or armed settlers.

I would suggest this jerk aim high!

I find it interesting they send women and children out for the rewards and hide themselves.. hypocrites

[pgkdan]

Whoever blows himself up in the middle of (Israeli) aggressors, will attain the highest level of martyrdom,"

I hope there's a special place in hell reserved gfor the religious leaders who are promulgating this kind of crap.

[ecomcon]

The conference, which is scheduled to end on Thursday, seeks to "clarify the message of Islam for humanity."

I think I'm pretty clear on what the message of Islam is for humanity.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"Suicide attacks represent the highest level of martyrdom, because there are no civilians in Israel. It's a militarist society," Sheikh Qaradawi told reporters.

[Travis McGee]

Radical islam is an insane death cult, "moderate" islam is its trojan horse in the West.

[Tom Jefferson]

What a wonderful, peace-loving religion Islam is.

[Tom Jefferson]

It will lose them the support of the civilized nations

Not the European countries.

[Bahbah]

You may be right but I am going to keep my powder dry on this one for a while. The EU is good at denydenydeny (apologies to Freeper of same name), but Islam may be revealing itself to a point where denial will not be possible.

[sleavelessinseattle]

I'm curious whether any reference to 9/11 was made in this definition of a militarized state having no civilians... I'm of a mind for the US to grant the Wahabbi's wish, become a militarized state and show these savages what WAR is.

Maybe Bush should just sit still for two years while we pull up the Selective Service and build some more aircraft carriers and rip the Arabs a new one. Appeasement is worse than surrender because they just feed their armies with our money! I'd rather it go to JDAM's.