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Leaders in the Arab world....
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   ....[1]continue to speak out against suicidal extremists.

     Interviewer: The American invasion of Iraq â isn't it a provocation
     to Arab mentality?
     Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: That's true: but there have always been
     international conflicts. Besides, it is not only the Muslims who
     are subject to these so-called injustices. Since America is a
     superpower, it intervenes in the affairs of all the other
     countries, and all the peoples suffer because of this. But the
     question is how to respond. Should I respond by sending my children
     to commit suicide and blow themselves up? Let's say we accept that
     a certain person is anti-American â who are the civilians, children
     and women in Algeria to blame? Are they Americans? I ask you, who
     are most of the victims of suicide operations and terrorism - the
     Muslims or the non-Muslims? They are Muslims. The number of people
     killed by Muslims carrying out suicide operations is far greater
     than those killed by the Americans or the Israelis.
     Interviewer: Why is this in your opinion?
     Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: Since you allow him to blow himself up
     among the so-called enemy, and since he believes you do not belong
     to the same school or ideology, he considers you to be the enemy,
     and himself to be a martyr.
     Interviewer: So the chain extends from one to another...
     Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: If you allow them to blow themselves up
     among Israeli citizens, they will end up blowing themselves up
     among Muslims citizens, because they hold different views.
     Interviewer: Some time ago, you wrote an article, in which you call
     upon the religious scholars to ban all suicide operations.
     Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: That's true.
     Interviewer: Do you think that the fact that mistakes were made in
     suicide operations â in Algeria and Morocco, for example â should
     make you pull the rug from under suicide operations that target
     enemy soldiers, even in Israel?
     Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari: There has never been in Islam â not in the
     raids of the Prophet, or of his companions, or of other Muslims â
     anybody who blew himself up among the enemy or anybody else.
     Whoever gave the green light to suicide operations against Israeli
     civilians, and said that the dialogue with the Jews would take
     place through human bombs, did so out of political, ideological
     motives, in support of a certain political group. It has nothing to
     do with religion. All the religious scholars, especially the Salafi
     scholars, have said that whoever blows himself up, even among the
     enemy, is killing himself, and will be punished in hell.

   The interviewee is the former Dean of Islamic Law at Qatar University.
   Tags: [2]terrorism [3]Islam [4]suicide bombers [5]jihad

References

   1. http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1450
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/terrorism
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/Islam
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/suicide%20bombers
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/jihad