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More than 150 prominent Muslim scholars from 50 countries are currently attending a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis and foreign nationals. At least 20 Muslim citizens of Israel were among 1,200 people murdered by Hamas terrorists and ordinary Palestinians that day. Thousands more were injured, and 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip, where 50 -- dead and alive -- are still held captive.
As far as Qatar's Muslim scholars are concerned, however, the war in the Gaza Strip did not start on the day Hamas launched its invasion of Israel. Rather, the war began the moment Israel fired back, and the only victims are the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, not those who were murdered, raped, beheaded and burned alive on October 7.
The conference, taking place at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, was organized by the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a body of Islamic theologians founded in 2004 by the late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian scholar known as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organization. Qaradawi was hosted and embraced by Qatar for many years before his death.
Qaradawi, who was closely associated with the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, apparently had no problem justifying Palestinian terrorism and murdering Israeli women and children -- or, evidently, in using Muslim women to do it: "Israeli women are not like women in our society because Israeli women are militarized," he told BBC in 2004.
Several Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have added Qatar's IUMS to their terrorism blacklists, saying it used "Islamic rhetoric as a cover to facilitate terrorist activities."
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As far as Qatar's Muslim scholars are concerned, however, the war in the Gaza Strip did not start on the day Hamas launched its invasion of Israel. Rather, the war began the moment Israel fired back, and the only victims are the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, not those who were murdered, raped, beheaded and burned alive on October 7.
The conference, taking place at the Eyüp Sultan Mosque, was organized by the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a body of Islamic theologians founded in 2004 by the late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian scholar known as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organization. Qaradawi was hosted and embraced by Qatar for many years before his death.
Qaradawi, who was closely associated with the Iran-backed terror group Hamas, apparently had no problem justifying Palestinian terrorism and murdering Israeli women and children -- or, evidently, in using Muslim women to do it: "Israeli women are not like women in our society because Israeli women are militarized," he told BBC in 2004.
Several Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have added Qatar's IUMS to their terrorism blacklists, saying it used "Islamic rhetoric as a cover to facilitate terrorist activities."
Qatar's Muslim Scholars: Nothing More Important Than Killing Israelis
As far as Qatar's Muslim scholars are concerned... the war in the Gaza Strip did not start on the day Hamas launched its invasion of Israel. Rather, the war began the moment Israel fired back, and the only victims are the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
