"Gaza's top Islamic scholar issues fatwa criticizing 7 October attack"

[EX500rider]

The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza, is one of the region’s most respected religious authorities, so his legal opinion carries significant weight among Gaza’s two million population, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim.

A fatwa is a non-binding Islamic legal ruling from a respected religious scholar usually based on the Quran or the Sunnah - the sayings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dr Dayah’s fatwa, which was published in a detailed six-page document, criticises Hamas for what he calls “violating Islamic principles governing jihad”.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4vw1l8xvdo

Sounds like he better go into hiding now...

[RubyRose]

1. Took him that long to study that?

[EX500rider]

2. Of course his complaint was less about the slaughtering of Israelis and more about the blowback..

But it's a start

[Frasier Balzov]

3. Principles governing jihad.

That sounds so crazy at its core.

[JI7]

4. Does he condemn the attack on Israelis in itself ?

[SunSeeker]

6. Of course not.

He didn't object to the killing of Israeli civilians. He objected to the Oct. 7 raid because it caused a massive response, and then Hamas hid among Palestinian civilians, causing more Palestinian civilian deaths:

Hamas, he says, has failed in its obligations of “keeping fighters away from the homes of defenceless [Palestinian] civilians and their shelters, and providing security and safety as much as possible in the various aspects of life... security, economic, health, and education, and saving enough supplies for them.”

Dr Dayah points to Quranic verses and the Sunnah that set strict conditions for the conduct of jihad, including the necessity of avoiding actions that provoke an excessive and disproportionate response by an opponent.

His fatwa highlights that, according to Islamic law, a military raid should not trigger a response that exceeds the intended benefits of the action.

[SunSeeker]

5. Too little too late, Salman. It won't stop what is about to happen.

Your fatwa would have helped a year ago. But by staying silent for a year, you gave Netanyahu justification to clear Northern Gaza out and stuff everyone into Southern Gaza to starve. Now that Trump has been elected with the help of the dumbshits who refused to vote for Kamala because Biden couldn't get them a ceasefire, Trump’s buddy Netanyahu will be free to annihilate your people, regardless of your fatwa and your sudden attempt to distance yourselves from Hamas. And I don't think those pro-Palestinian protesters will even bother protesting Trump over it, not like they did Kamala.

[Cha]

7. No Shit Sherlock! I know you don't care about

the Innocent Victims, Dr Salman al-Dayah . But therein lies the Big Problem.

It's Called Karma.