Muslim scholars issue 'fatwa' calling for 'jihad' against Israel as strikes pummel Gaza

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?

Lets hope they can bring peace to the region. The secularists sure won't.

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.

Israel wants people to... Fight back against the genocide they are committing?

"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"

Try reading instead of assuming

Certainly seems to be

Is that what I said -_-

So you disagree with the allies going to war with Nazi Germany?

Also yes? Do you think there were literally no innocent or anti-nazi during Nazi Germany? It was just extremely dangerous to speak out.

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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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>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.

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>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.

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>Last Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced the expansion of his military operations in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

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>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:

• Aljazeera

• Rasd Network

• Arabi 21

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.

You would have defended Nazi Germany

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.

>genocide supporters

Wdym? The thread has a pretty antiisrael stance

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 is your lever and some complementary trolleys 🎚️🛤️ 🚃, please submit your answers before all Palestinians are ethnically cleansed

No, that's idiotic collective punishment. This whole thread is full of fucking genocide supporters pretending they have the moral high ground.

because a minority of Americans voted for him?

That’s not how representative democracy works

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%E2%80%932022_Israeli_political_crisis

Those are about the captives. The do not care one bit about Palestinians. Actually scratch that, they care 3/100 bits about Palestinians.

Notice that those protests are not in opposition to the genocide

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

Israel is the cause of this. Their target is completely correct.

97% of Israelis support ethnically cleansing Gaza.

"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?"

>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?

I hate this excuse liberals keep making, either to whitewash the actions of nations that have lost their minds, or to do cringe "I hate the government not the people" sthicks.

The government doesn't fall from the heavens. The Israeli leaders, just like the Americans or Nazis did not come out of nowhere and cause mass hypnosis amongst the innocent populations whose only crime was to be too weak to resist hypnosis. These leaders emerged from the population. They were supported by the population before they acquired legislative/executive power (that's how you aquire the power in the first place). Their commands mean *nothing* if the population doesn't go along with it. These leaders are leaders of nations only so long as they represent the wills of their nations, and the will of their nations is to kill, to loot and to worship their capitalist masters.

No man, and I mean *none at all* rules alone. One comes to realise this truth when one converses directly with the supposed innocents in America, or Germany or Israel. These people by and large know that their governments are involved in genocide (at this point, who isn't aware?), and if they aren't actively cheering it on, at the minimum they are going along with it.

Israel is a democratic country. The Israelis willingly elect war criminals to lead their country.

Maybe wear thicker underwear?

I have three boycats and they are a pain in my ass.

I see what you did there

I agree!

What's "Ovement?"

They've been happening already

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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.

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.

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.

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, delivered oil shipments, 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.

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.

Sorry, bigot, your talking points from October 2001 don't really fly in the rest of the world.

I do forget there are Americans from the dark ages here sometimes.

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?

Bruh, it's an Abrahamic religion, of course it's hypocritical. I

Terms and conditions may apply.

So are they advocating to take in refugees?

What are you talking about you stupid cracker

Yeah thats definitely the here you freak

All of the abrahamic religions are pretty awful.

Whats hypocritical about calling for people to fight back against genocide?

Defending the weak and oppressed is a core pillar of Islam. Its not hypocritical

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The Houthis *are* Yemeni government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Political_Council

They have their own government, with its own policies, and *de facto* recognised territory.

The continued application of military force by the U.S.-backed Presidential Leadership Council, and capitulation to U.S. hegemony leading some member states of the U.N. to attempt to delegitimise them, cannot change the reality of the situation.

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Lol I was thinking the whole western world accepting all Israeli transgressions against international law, and rewarding her with political shielding, vetos, and their own citizens tax money... And double standards.

No where in the world is it acceptable to use a military against unarmed civilians with sustained force. But Israel gets her pass... Why?

The larger forces at play:


I'd say Iran and Hizbollah in Lebanon haven't exactly ignored the situation either, and have paid a fairly heavy price themselves thus far.

In yemen the houthis (aka not the government) is willing to do anything, the actural government only makes statements and votes in the UN while taking no real action.

It's very surprising, but it's due to larger forces at play.

obviously

what would your plan have been 120 years ago?

They starting colonizing in the 19th century dawg.

48 67 and 72 didn't happen

What do you mean 120 years. Israel is less than 80 years old.

The unbiased take is that it's a genocide

So in your opinion, calling this genocide is biased.

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.

“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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Death to Israel

Is that "unbiased" enough for you?

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.

I'm sure Western News will report on this in a completely fair, unbiased, and reasonable way, of course.

Meanwhile every Muslim country government bar Yemen: *Nah, I don't really feel like it*

A jihad against the Zionist Entity is a jihad I can get behind.

Can't say that I blame them.

I mean yeah

120 years too late

Last time they issued a fatwa was in 2017 in response to Larry David's hit play *"Fatwa!"*

The first steps include: boycott, and divest

Gee, I never would have guessed that would be a result of Israel's actions in Gaza.

Finally

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.

The military industrial complex is counting on it

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?

hell yeah 🔥🔥🔥

nothing will happen

Fuck all religious leaders. Free Palestine. Religious leaders can suck my ass.

This could be pretty bad...

Calm down scholar there isn't even a religious leader for islam anymore

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.