| Israel's attorney general will press criminal charges against the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikremeh Sabri, for allegedly breaking the national law against terror. The mufti is a Palestine Liberation Organization appointee. In Islamic law, a mufti is an attorney who writes opinions on legal subjects to help judges decide cases. Charges have not yet been filed. It's not clear what kind of penalty Sabri might face. However, police investigated a meeting that Sabri allegedly held in Lebanon with Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. Sabri has allegedly publicly called for the destruction of the United States, Great Britain and Israel. Israel has also accused Ahmad Jamus of sedition for allegedly calling for attacks on Jews in public sermons at the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem. Jamus is one of Sabri's deputies. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to host someone who's calling for your destruction. And it doesn't seem particularly courteous to call for the destruction of the people hosting you. |