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.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 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·
      18 hours ago

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

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

        It confirms that she was born in Germany, lived there for the first years of her life before fleeing Nazi persecution, and had German citizenship until it was revoked by the Nazis. “She was a German who had her citizenship revoked by the Nazis at the time of her death” and “she wasn’t German” aren’t compatible without accepting the Nazi definition of who was and wasn’t a German citizen. The Holocaust was carried out on Germany’s citizens (in addition to those of other nations), even if they denied that these people were citizens.

        In the current political climate I feel this is a very important distinction to make.

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Thank you! My whole point is regardless of shitty GOVERNMENT actions, there are absolutely loads of innocent civilians and we should keep that in mind when condemning countries. That was all and everyone lost their minds claiming all sorts of things about my stance, infuriating.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          12·
          17 hours ago

          Yes, so it confirms that she didn’t live in Germany and wasn’t a citizen