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.
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.
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.
Literally nobody said anything about “specifically targeting civilians”.
Also, Anne Frank wasn’t German, dip shit.
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.
So, like I said, nobody said anything about specifically targeting civilians.
She didn’t live in Germany, nor was she a German citizen.
You’re completely wrong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank
No? That corroborates what I said
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.
Yes, that does indeed confirm that she didn’t live in Germany and wasn’t a citizen.
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.