Why aren’t Ibrahim Hooper and Edina Lekovic calling Zahar right now and telling him that suicide is forbidden in Islam? What’s that? Because he would probably respond that Paradise is guaranteed to those who kill and are killed for Allah (Qur’an 9:111)? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
“Gaza groups agree in principle to truce,” by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post (thanks to Sr. Soph):
12 small Palestinian factions in Gaza have agreed in principle to an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel, an Egyptian diplomat told The Jerusalem Post.
Egypt’s proposed cease-fire agreement includes a six-month truce between Israel and the Gaza Strip, an exchange of prisoners and the opening of Gaza’s border crossings.
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On Tuesday, top Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said that Israel may have 200 nuclear warheads, but Hamas has 200,000 people who want to blow themselves up inside Israel.
Zahar, who was speaking to supporters at the Islamic University in Gaza City, said Israel would pay if it rejected the Egyptian initiative for truce with the Palestinians.
“If Israel says no, it will pay a heavy price,” he said. “We are a besieged people and we will have to use all our tools to defend ourselves against Israel.”…
Oh, and about that truce: Hamas and Islamic Jihad pattern their activities around Islamic teaching and law. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, once said: “By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath.” Is there any reason to believe that Hamas does not subscribe to this point of view?