Ruling is backed by more than a dozen prominent Muslim scholars and calls on all Muslim countries to 'review their peace treaties' with Israel

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.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      23 hours ago

      I would have defended against agreeing to specifically target civilians, yes.

      Anne Frank would have been slaughtered as just another nazi Germany with the bullshit ethics in this thread.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        32·
        20 hours ago

        Literally nobody said anything about “specifically targeting civilians”.

        Also, Anne Frank wasn’t German, dip shit.

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          19 hours ago

          My entire point was that the fatwa was not specific thereby including civilians.

          She literally was born in Germany, take half a second and look it up.

          • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            17 hours ago

            So, like I said, nobody said anything about specifically targeting civilians.

            She didn’t live in Germany, nor was she a German citizen.

                • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  21·
                  15 hours ago

                  Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1929. In 1934, when she was four-and-a-half, Frank and her family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party gained control over Germany. By May 1940, the family was trapped in Amsterdam by the German occupation of the Netherlands. Frank lost her German citizenship in 1941 and became stateless.

                  Did we read the same article? How do Nazis revoke citizenship from someone who wasn’t a citizen? She was still German born and would have had the right to legal recognition of her status as a German citizen had she survived. The only sense in which she wasn’t German is that the Nazi government in power at the time of her death didn’t consider her a citizen (or human being), but that’s a pretty poor basis to say she wasn’t German.

                  • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    12·
                    14 hours ago

                    Yes, that does indeed confirm that she didn’t live in Germany and wasn’t a citizen.