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’m only surprised it took so long. I would have thought they’d done this long ago, or at least considered it as obvious. Haven’t they been waging Jihad against Israel since its inception?
Most Arab countries are in bed with Israel. Anyone who stokes the flames there goes to jail. Their top imams speaking out is not a big deal by itself but it does indicate a turning of the tide.
Your name is gold. It really does describe it well. And yeah, most arab countries are in bed with israel and the US. They only care about staying in power or being a puppet for them.
Sure, let’s put murder upon murder.
Yes, I fully understand why this fatwa is put out hut please remember that these are bad things. Teonbaf things don’t cancel eachother out, they just make two bad things.
How about you putting a fatwa on Netanyahu specifically? And the tip leaders of Israel, perhaps, hut leave the rest alone
Seriously, if you want to stop the violence, put leaders of both Israel and Hamas against a wall and have both groups be led to peace by actual reasonable people
"how about declaring war against Hitler specifically? And the top leaders of Germany, perhaps, but leave the rest alone.
Seriously, if you want to stop the violence, put leaders of both Germany and Jewish partisan organizations against a wall and have both groups be led to peace by actual reasonable people"
Calm down scholar there isn’t even a religious leader for islam anymore
When Muslims go to Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, they pay to kill kids in Gaza. Those bomb dropping airplanes are not EV.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Eygpt, and Morocco these six in particular paid actual money, intresected missiles toward Israel, fought the Houthies blockade, and contributed with military intellegence and weapons , and made new air/sea/land routes for trade that kept Israel genocide for 17+ months.The Saudis are separately at war in Yemen and against the Houthis and have been since I think 2015.
The Houthis have just endured a decade of fighting a US backed coalition, which isbwhy they’ve become increasingly capable of expanding their operations to interfere with shipping lanes unrelated to their direct civil war.
MIC knows it must sustain war and conflict and will always play all sides to keep the orpham crushing machine going.
If it stops, or even threatens to slow, well… stonks go down faster than any tarriff effect.
Muftis (and scholars) occupy a prominent position in Islam but their departments often sit within the state. They owe their existence to the state governments they’re in. Even if this decree carries weight among muslim communities where fatwas are often studied to their minute detail, respective muslim governments ultimately have the final say on whether they’re willing to adopt their decree. With leaders like MBS and others, I doubt there’s real appetite for change even if the fatwa in question is in line with traditional islamic laws.
So turns out their religion is as much hypocritical BS as christianity or any other.
Defending the weak and oppressed is a core pillar of Islam. Its not hypocritical .
So are they advocating to take in refugees?
Many have, but that’s the thing Israel is still committing genocide if Palestinians leave their home.
Yet only Yemen really does it and countries like Saudi Arabia or UAE are in bed with Israel. How many of muslim (sunni i guess since it was sunni fatwa) majority countries will follow this fatwa?
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I do forget there are Americans from the dark ages here sometimes.
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Sorry, bigot, your talking points from October 2001 don’t really fly in the rest of the world.
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Its a woman’s choice in most non westernized Muslim countries, those countries, incidentally, containing a minority of Muslims.
Incidentally westernized Muslims countries tend to have the harshest restrictions, like Saudi Arabia.
As far as gay communities it, like it always does, depends on local culture. Pakistan officially recognizes transgender women; Saudi, the West’s darling, stones gay people. Iran has multiple gay organizations that are recognized by the state, and Sudan was influenced by Christians so they really hate the gays. As it turns out different people and cultures believe different things regardless of religion.
Almost like people are people, you bigoted fuck.
Islam is a religion of peace, and does explicitly promote protecting the weak and doing charity. Its a large reason why Jews were safe in Palestine for centuries before zionist decided to hijack the region.
If bigots like you didn’t exist, maybe we could move on from demonizing 1/8th of humanity and start to deal with the actual problems you mentioned.
Bruh, it’s an Abrahamic religion, of course it’s hypocritical.
All of the abrahamic religions are pretty awful.
What are you talking about you stupid cracker
Yeah thats definitely the here you freak
Whats hypocritical about calling for people to fight back against genocide?
The first steps include: boycott, and divest
Boycat is a really good app to use where you can scan items and it will tell you if you should boycott. Highly recommend.
I have three boycats and they are a pain in my ass.
Maybe wear thicker underwear?
They’ve been happening already
What’s “Ovement?”
I agree!
The Boycott Divest Struggle movement
I see what you did there
Fuck all religious leaders. Free Palestine. Religious leaders can suck my ass.
Wouldn’t it have been better to fatwa specific Israeli leaders instead of the entire country that is full of civilians who didn’t cause this?
Would have gone a long way I think to showing they are the moral high ground in the situation.
Israel is the cause of this. Their target is completely correct.
Idk man, there’s been many protests such as this one since. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339490/israel-protests-netanyahu-hostages-gaza-war
Notice that those protests are not in opposition to the genocide
Those are about the captives. The do not care one bit about Palestinians. Actually scratch that, they care 3/100 bits about Palestinians.
“wouldn’t it have been better to only go to war with specific Nazi leaders, instead of the entirety of Nazi Germany, that is full of civilians who didn’t cause this?”
Also yes? Do you think there were literally no innocent or anti-nazi during Nazi Germany? It was just extremely dangerous to speak out.
So you disagree with the allies going to war with Nazi Germany?
Is that what I said -_-
Certainly seems to be
Try reading instead of assuming
Israel is a democratic country. The Israelis willingly elect war criminals to lead their country.
I voted D, but all Americans are to blame for Trumps shitty actions because a minority of Americans voted for him?
Back to Israel, you sure about that? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–2022_Israeli_political_crisis
because a minority of Americans voted for him?
That’s not how representative democracy works
No, that’s idiotic collective punishment. This whole thread is full of fucking genocide supporters pretending they have the moral high ground.
genocide supporters
Wdym? The thread has a pretty antiisrael stance
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.
You would have defended Nazi Germany
I’m not a genocide supporter. I was pointing out an obvious contradiction in your statement.
And if you think Israelis are against collective punishment then how would you describe what’s been happening to Palestinians all those decades?
Are innocent Israelis more deserving of mercy than innocent Palestinians?
Here are is your lever and some complementary trolleys 🎚️🛤️ 🚃, please submit your answers before all Palestinians are ethnically cleansed
Jesus christ you people just make up what you think I believe huh?
My principled stance is genocide is bad regardless of who is perputrating or even saying it SHOULD BE perpetrated (basically what this Fatwa is saying no?)
I am absolutely against the abhorrent things that Israel is doing, fuck off.
All genocide is bad. A declaration of war is not.
My principled stance is genocide is bad regardless of who is perputrating or even saying it SHOULD BE perpetrated (basically what this Fatwa is saying no?)
No. There is nothing in it about killing unarmed civilians or eliminating all Jewish people. It’s a call for all Arab/Muslim nations to form a united front and declare war, which, like all wars (sans Israel’s concept of war?) has rules of engagement.
Your assumption that the word “jihad” means genocide is the problem with this conversation. “Jihad” literally means “to struggle/strive”. It’s used in several contexts and there are types of Jihad. (See the Wikipedia article on it for more)
- There is “jihad Al nafs” for example, which translates to “to struggle against one’s self”, and an obvious example of it is to quit smoking, or stop overeating, etc.
- There is “jihad Al mal” which means “struggle with money” and an example would be donating to a rightful cause
- There is “jihad Al tarbiyah” which means becoming an educator/a teacher of good morals and Islamic/scientific principles
You think I’m advocating genocide. I am not. I, however, am supportive of a war against a genocidal rogue state.
Source (in Arabic): https://www.uae71.com/posts/117288
Direct translation for the lazy bums who won’t bother:
The International Union of Muslim Scholars, through its Ijtihad and Fatwa Committee, issued a fatwa regarding the continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the violation of the truce. The fatwa called for jihad and urgent, widespread action by Muslim states and peoples, including military action.
The fatwa, shared by Ali Qaradaghi, Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, via his X account, affirmed “the obligation of armed jihad against the Israeli occupation for every capable Muslim,” emphasizing that “this duty extends throughout the Islamic world.”
The committee also called for “immediate military intervention” by Arab and Islamic countries to halt the aggression on Gaza and impose a comprehensive blockade on the occupying entity by land, sea, and air, including closing its waterways, straits, and airspace.
The fatwa emphasized the necessity of supporting the Palestinian resistance militarily, financially, politically, and legally, deeming it a “religious duty.” It also called for the formation of an Islamic military alliance to defend the nation and deter any aggression, asserting that the establishment of such an alliance is an urgent necessity.
In the same context, the fatwa prohibited any form of normalization with the Israeli occupation, prohibited the supply of oil and gas to it, and called for a review of the peace treaties signed with the occupier.
The committee stressed the need for financial support for the people of Gaza and the importance of urgently opening the crossings to provide humanitarian aid.
In concluding the fatwa, the committee called on Muslim communities in the United States to pressure the US administration to implement its election promises to halt the aggression and work to bring peace to the region.
Last Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced the expansion of his military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,523 martyrs and 114,776 wounded since October 7, 202
Edit 2: more sources for your perusal:
I mean yeah
I’m sure Western News will report on this in a completely fair, unbiased, and reasonable way, of course.
Yes because as we know western media is known for having a fair and unbaised view whenever a native people fight back against a foreign military occupation. Especially when said resistance is supported by a non Christian people who also dont fit the arbitrary definition of white.
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Death to Israel
Is that “unbiased” enough for you?
Muslim scholars are calling on fellow Muslims to fight back against genocide.
The problem is that they are scary words like “futwa” and “jihad” and, in the West, this language is seen as uncivilized and barbaric.
Orientalism, in other words.
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Right, but whether or not it’s disputed outside of Lemmy doesn’t change the fact that it’s a genocide. The only people who don’t think it’s a genocide are those in favor of the genocide and the genuinely uninformed/propagandized.
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neutrality in the face of oppression is just siding with the oppressor for cowards. you’re either against genocide or you’re for it. your position here is clear.
So in your opinion, calling this genocide is biased.
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The unbiased take is that it’s a genocide
Well, I hope we can agree that genocides have occurred in history. Putting this article aside, how do you propose a genocide be reported on as it’s occurring without being biased?
“Unbiased” does not mean “statistical mean”.
If
1 + 1 = 2, then it equals two irrespective of anyone’s opinion on the matter.But zeroth of all, there is no such thing as an unbiased take, because no one is without bias.
I think for now most objective would be “actions consistent with genocide” and war crimes. That being said most prominent human rights organizations do classify it as genocide. Here i think bias was referring to nonfactual reporting, so translations or what some people dispute bears no value.
Not sure what your translation says, fatwa or not doesn’t really matter or do shit for the Palestinians.
But I do know MEE is a UK based garbage source.
I mean at this point if you have seen what Israel has done, unfiltered by the media, then there is almost nothing that will shake people out of their views. If you support Israel after knowing that they purposefully shell hospitals and children, then you will most likely keep supporting Israel no matter what. Same goes for those who oppose Israel and it’s genocide.
Exactly what Israel wants. Religious people should be closed in prison islands to let them kill each other.
No, Israel wants them to be quiet and do nothing while they eviscerate their cities and kill their citizens.
Maybe you should be locked up somewhere for your gross views that generalize millions of people and wishes to “let them kill each other”.
Things decent people say, surely.
There is no reason for the Muslim-majority countries to react with a religious argument instead of strong and even violent political and civil action.
Israel needs Hamas and other Islamist groups to legitimate their actions.
I lived 41 years on this Earth, born a Catholic, always been fascinated by religious difference as a child, only to see religious people being always at the root of the biggest scandals, massacres and inhuman actions in the world.
Religions are the most common and ancient method with which elites split humanity in groups and pit them against each other for their own gain, apart from being used to exploit young, disabled and other vulnerable people to gain money, power or force them to sexual acts and other atrocities.
An inquisitive rational person who is also genuinely religious defies all of my experience and any logic argument that I know can be thrown at it.
Israel wants people to… Fight back against the genocide they are committing?
A religious cult wants another religious cult that it got labeled as unstable terrorists all over the western world to do the one thing that triggers everyone to think that terrorists attacks will escalate potentially all over the world and that therefore action against Muslim countries and governments is required, because of at least 24 years of pedantic racist propaganda.
I know the details follow no logic but it’s religious people governing all over Israel, USA and the Arab countries: no logic to be found there.
Last time they issued a fatwa was in 2017 in response to Larry David’s hit play “Fatwa!”
Gee, I never would have guessed that would be a result of Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Muslim and Scholar. Two things that don’t exist together. If you believe in a religion that allows you to kill others. Then you are not intelligent. Goes for any religion. Not just Muslims.
Muslims: we should defend Palestinians.
You: look at these stupid brown people thinking they have the right to defend themselves against the civilized white man.
How do you propose they get rid of the occupation. Flowers?
This could be pretty bad…
