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Qaradawi: Abbas must be stoned if proven guilty |
2010-01-10 |
Doha-based Egyptian scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi says if it is proven that acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas instigated the Israeli war against Gaza, he must be stoned. "During the debate raised over the Goldstone UN report which accused Israel of war crimes against Gaza, there were reports that Abbas encouraged Israel to launch its offensive against Gaza," Qaradawi said as he delivered a Friday sermon at Doha's Omar bin al-Khattab mosque. "There also were reports that he stalled a vote on the report by the UN Human Rights Council," said the Egyptian scholar, who is a Qatari citizen, as well. "The Arab League should investigate the matter, and if it is proven that Abbas instigated the Israeli war against Gaza, he deserves to be publicly stoned in Mecca because this would be a betrayal on his part," he added. However, Qaradawi pointed out that he was not issuing a religious ruling (fatwa), but simply calling on the Arab league, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and certain other unbiased parties to conduct a probe. "I did not issue a fatwa. I am not a judge or investigator," he stated, rejecting a contrary claim made by the acting Palestinian Authority Chief. Abbas accused Qaradawi of issuing such a fatwa, while speaking to members of the Qatari media during a visit he paid to the Persian Gulf littoral state last week. |
Posted by:Fred |
#8 The whole argument was covered by Dylan in the 60's. Everybody must get stoned |
Posted by: 3dc 2010-01-10 23:08 |
#7 You were meant to become a Rantburger, Rhodesiafever. QED. :-) Mr. Wife has two similar tales that I am aware of, from his days doing that factory start-up in Greece: once he dropped off a letter at the post office, walked around the corner only to hear the boom; the second, he couldn't get on an overcrowded ferry to the islands, which was subsequently attacked by terrorists in motorboats with machine guns. I put his life in the hands of Providence in 1987. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-10 21:36 |
#6 Was lucky, missed a Netanya market bomb by a matter of weeks. And then IRA bömb by a couple of days, parked my van round the corner, sheesh. |
Posted by: Rhodesiafever 2010-01-10 20:19 |
#5 I can live with that. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-01-10 15:12 |
#4 Well Mike , not just stoned .. I'd have to say stupid , inbred and eeer stupid again ! |
Posted by: Oscar 2010-01-10 10:12 |
#3 ...Well, to take on the Israelis, you'd have to be stoned. Mike |
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-01-10 08:56 |
#2 Every!Body!Must!Get!Stoned! That's how I hear the lyrics (such as they are). |
Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2010-01-10 06:57 |
#1 You know... I was just thinking of a chocolate sundae with a cherry on top - Spencer Tracy |
Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-01-10 03:19 |