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Name of Questioner

Ahmed

Title

Attacking Civilians in Martyr Operations

Question

Is the bombing of pizza parlors and other civilian targets by Palestinian Muslims considered a legitimate form of Jihad? What should be a Muslim's response to what has recently happened? Could you provide relevant citations from the Quran or Hadith that argue one side or another?

Date

26/Oct/2003

Topic

Jihad: Rulings & Regulations

Answer

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

All praise and thanks are due to Allah and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger.


Dear questioner, thanks for having confidence in us and we hope our efforts meet your expectations.

We earnestly implore Allah to grant our dear brother and sisters in Palestine victory over the oppressive enemy, and to guide their steps along the path of removing the occupation, Amen.

In his response to the question, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, states the following:

"In fact, there is no war between Muslims and every Jew in this world; rather, our war is against those who have usurped our Holy Land and try to establish a homeland for themselves in a place that does not belong to them. In this sense, we do not kill any Jew who resides in any part of the world other than Palestine.

As for those Jews living inside our occupied lands and carry the Israeli nationality, they participate in the aggression against our fellow Palestinians. Our target should be military personnel and not civilians when Israel does not attack our civilians. But as we can see nowadays, they violate the lives of all Palestinians, civilians or non-civilians.

In their aggression, they make no distinction between a baby or an elderly person. They have also committed many massacres. Qaana, Hebron and Dir Yaseen are a few examples and evidences of Israeli atrocities. In Qaana, hundreds of terrified civilians took refuge in the UN headquarters to escape murder. However, Israel bombed the headquarters and left dozens of dead: children, elderly and women among them. Even now, we can see them targeting and killing our Palestinian brothers in cold blood. They mercilessly kill everybody in the Holy Land. According to the Qur’an, we are to stick by a principle that reads: “If ye punish, then punish with the like of that wherewith ye were afflicted.”(An-Nahl: 126) We are to retaliate in the same way we are attacked.

Hence, we have no other choice but to treat them like with like to deter them. Hence, we are allowed to kill every Israeli until they stop this mass killing and paganism. It is only then that we can stop our attacks on the Israeli civilians but our Jihad against the military will never stop till they leave our land and give us back our holy site, Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa."

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