Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Clerical crooks/cooks

"In an emotional address about the plight of Sunnis in Syria, Qaradawi declared that "anyone who has the ability, who is trained to fight . . . has to go; I call on Muslims to go and support their brothers in Syria." "In 2009, he wrote a book titled Jurisprudence of Jihad, in which he dismissed the individual duty argument for the jihad in Palestine [Sunnis occupied by Israel], Iraq, and Afghanistan [Sunnis occupied by NATO]." "According to data that we have collected over the past nine months from hundreds of primary and secondary sources, about 5,000 Sunni fighters from more than 60 different countries have joined the Syrian rebels since the uprising began in 2011. This makes Syria the second-largest foreign-fighter destination in the history of modern Islamism."