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.

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      23 hours ago

      Yet cheering for a fucking fatwa against all of Israel, what the fuck kind of reality are we in where now we’re applauding this shit.

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          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.

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

            This is only something that you have assumed that other people want. Dismantling a settler colonial state is not genocide, on the contrary, it prevents future genocides. And obviously, a settler state can only be dismantled through violent forceful actions, especially against those who seek to uphold it. Any pretenses otherwise are just as delusional as the belief that Nazi Germany could have been destroyed without killing the millions of soldiers of the Wehrmacht who fanatically defended the regime to the very end.

            Or in other terms, there are no wars against the leaders, the very concept is nonsensical. Leaders don’t fight wars, soldiers do.

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            Literally nobody said anything about “specifically targeting civilians”.

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