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Grand Mufti of Libya: Suicide bombings are “allowed by Sharia law”

Apr 23, 2020 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

Friends, I’ve been doing this work for about 600 years now, and I gotta tell ya, this one took me back to the early days, when I wrote my first book, and a couple of years after that, when I started this site. In those days I would quote Qur’an 9:111 to show the Islamic justification for suicide bombing and would in response be inundated with denunciations, as people called me an “Islamophobe” and much worse for suggesting that suicide bombings were allowed in Islam. The idea that they are completely un-Islamic became generally accepted among U.S. counterterror analysts. Meanwhile, the suicide bombings continued. Sadiq al-Ghariani gives a hint here of why they did continue.

“Muslim Brotherhood’s Grand Mufti of Libya Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani: Suicide Bombings Are Permitted by Shari’a Law,” MEMRI, April 15, 2020:

Sheikh Sadiq Al-Ghariani, who is regarded by the Muslim Brotherhood as the Grand Mufti of Libya, said in a video that aired on Al-Tanasuh TV (Libya) on April 15, 2020, that shari’a permits suicide bombings on the condition that they rattle the enemy, cause great harm and losses to the enemy, and cause a crushing defeat.

Sadiq Al-Ghariani: “If detonating oneself while carrying out a fedaai operation rattles the enemy and brings upon it a crushing defeat, then it is allowed by shari’a law. Many of the Prophet Muhammad’s companions threw themselves from walls. They sacrificed themselves and died in order to breach the enemy’s ranks. If a person is certain that this act will cause great harm to the enemy, that it will bring defeat upon it, that it will have great impact upon it, and that this attack will reverberate and cause crushing losses to the enemy, then it is allowed by shari’a law, in light of what some of Prophet Muhammad’s companions did. However, it is not allowed in order to simply kill oneself.”

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  1. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 8:11 am

    “on the condition that they rattle the enemy, cause great harm and losses to the enemy, and cause a crushing defeat.”
    So what recent suicide bombings did NOT meet this test?
    Never mind: there is a let out. If the person “is certain” the bombing will do this that is enough. It is a subjective matter, you see.

    • underbed cat says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 1:00 pm

      9/11 will always be a suicide mission to me, granted by a fatwah, the fact that it was debated amongst the politicians, media, liberals and some conservatives about the exact intent of the operation and still to this day some still want restricted speech to protect it, is unbelievable, this has allowed the successive years of protections, and mosque building unaware of the need to expose the doctrine. Those who “conspired” to deceive with facially nuetral dual meaning language ,even while experts tried to inform, the facts were dismissed, protested, sued, banned, threatened, silenced, demeaned and ridiculed. Our true heros were murdered, poisened and lived in protective places. It still happens, public at large but far less now, but many are clueless and have been taken into the fold. We sent young men to war while opening the borders, voting into office a political candidates allowing , swearing into office on the book that allows suicide attacks. The defenders giving into false narratives of a false religion, selling property to build organizations and restricting facts as if it is hate speech. The story is sadly hideous…and the heros such as Robert Spencer. Phil Haney was also was trying to prevent a crushing defeat and has educated many so we can defeat the misinformation and bring sanity to the world so why was there a decision to purge his work?
      China may have serious problems but in my mind is suddenly the replacement worst enemy….has all the press reporting maybe more will get known it may be related is other issues as I see China was attacked from within by a “internal seditious’ minded movement and the possible reasons the corona virus started in China in my opinion to end my comment.

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 1:08 pm

        Russia, China and U.S. India are being intimindated, invaded and accused by Iran and the Islamic global movement it is not just Iran it started 1400 plus years ago, in my opinion…..the use of deception rolls on.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 11:56 pm

        The Coronavirus having started in China doesn’t mean that anyone was attacking them.

  2. Michael Copeland says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 8:13 am

    Correction:
    The Grand Mufti of Libya is one of those many “misunderstanders”.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 10:46 am

      Actually, the Grand Mufti of Libya agrees with Islam’s top authorities.

      In 2001, Islam’s top authority, the grand imam of Al Azhar university justified suicide attacks for the promotion of Islam, “…”suicide operations are of self-defense and a kind of martyrdom, as long as the intention behind them is to kill the enemy’s soldiers, and not women and children.”

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 9:11 am

        ”not women and children”
        Killing the booty of jihad: now there’s a crime against Islam.

  3. Eur says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 9:47 am

    so peaceful

  4. Boromir's Horn says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:10 am

    Suicide bombings are “allowed by Sharia law”

    This headline should be front page, above the fold in every newspaper in the West. This Muslim leader is trying to tell us something. We should listen to his words, not the politicians that continue to lie to us.

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 8:25 pm

      Boromir’s Horn says,

      “This headline should be front page, above the fold in every newspaper in the West.”

      If the mainstream media journalists in the West conducted due diligence – and reported fair and accurately – this would be front page stuff…

      • Boromir's Horn says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 9:32 pm

        James, the word “If” separate’s the wheat from the chaff when it comes to this generations media. There are a few good journalists around, but the majority are completely corrupt and morally bankrupt. But I think there’s a reckoning coming.

        Right now we don’t have the faintest idea of the totality of damage from this virus. Livelihoods are being destroyed, families and businesses torn apart all over the world. When the dust finally settles, people are going to want answers. They’re going to look back and remember the daily fear-inducing coverage, the misinformation, hyper-partisan lies and cover-ups, and they will demand a change.

        When you think back to the complicit, trusting media we had 60 to 70 years ago and how the Vietnam War and Watergate turned everything around to what we have today. That was nothing compared to the tsunami that’s coming our way.

        • Lilith Weptb says

          Apr 26, 2020 at 3:39 am

          I don’t think so. I think that the majority people will be so concerned with there own lives they won’t pressure the goverment for answers, and of course the democrats will be ready with distractions the “crisis du jour ” real or manufactured.
          A few may demand answers but I don’t think it will be a large movement .
          I don’t have much faith in Americans “ outrage” or “demands for information or action” not when so many have allowed themselves to have their basic freedom taken away with little resistance ….. the freedom to move around freely, to go to their workplace to make a living and go to any place of business to purchase whatever they want .

  5. John Allan says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:14 am

    If Allah had more than two syllables, I seriously doubt that his followers could pronounce it!

    • Boromir's Horn says

      Apr 23, 2020 at 4:06 pm

      It is said, Mohammad suffered from chronic and severe constipation. in fact, successful movements were so infrequent, when he had one, his followers would hear him emit a long, deep sigh, agh….agh ….over time, the word Akbar was added to became a celebration of a “great dump”.

      While the Danes are gleeful in their revision to the writings of the Bible, amending the Quran to this latest development is not being considered at this time.

      • James Lincoln says

        Apr 23, 2020 at 8:22 pm

        Boromir’s Horn says,

        “It is said, Mohammad suffered from chronic and severe constipation.”

        Well that confirms it, I always thought that he was full of it…

  6. John Allan says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:23 am

    ‘If a person is certain that this act will cause great harm to the enemy, that it will bring defeat upon it, that it will have great impact upon it, and that this attack will reverberate and cause crushing losses to the enemy, then it is allowed by shari’a …’

    Pity that they can’t come back to check its effectiveness – or lack, thereof! Or perhaps wishful thinking is enough …

  7. Infidelicus says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Like I always said , the koran is a terrorist manual .

  8. mortimer says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:58 am

    From “Sirat Rasul Allah” (Guillaume’s translation page 300):

    “‘Auf bin Harith at the battle of Badr, asked the prophet, “Oh apostle of God, what makes the Lord laugh with joy at his servants” to which the prophet replied “When he plunges into the midst of enemy without armor”, upon which hearing this, ‘Auf drew off his mail-coat and threw it away then seized his sword and fought the enemy until he was killed.”

    Mohammed approved of self-directed suicide-attacks.

    • David says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 10:05 am

      Mortimer: It is said that muslims have a low IQ(uran) and this proves it. Satan(AKA Allah), must have had a real good laugh at this idiot.

      • Donovan Nuera says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 10:58 am

        It goes with that idiot having a stupid first name : “Auf”!!!

  9. Terry Gain says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    It’s becoming increasingly clear that Pope Francis is one of the few religious leaders who truly understands Islam.

    • David says

      Apr 24, 2020 at 10:02 am

      Terry: The Pope so loved his muslim brothers, he was prepared to lay down his life for them. Would he?

      • John says

        Apr 24, 2020 at 1:42 pm

        No but he would gladly lay down YOUR and my life to advance the religion of genocide, slavery, hate, lies and death. A Pope who advances a religion of death is not a Christian. What is there about psychopathy that he doesn’t understand? Islam at it’s core and from it’s beginning has trashed all of ten commandments. Would Jesus ever give in to this sickness?

        • John says

          Apr 24, 2020 at 1:59 pm

          OPS I forgot that Islam encourages child marriage, i.e. rape. Pedophilia is something
          the Catholic church knows a lot about. The two religions do have something in common after all.

  10. gravenimage says

    Apr 24, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    Grand Mufti of Libya: Suicide bombings are “allowed by Sharia law”
    ……………..

    Of course. When Muslims say they oppose this, all they mean is that they don’t refer to “killing and being killed in the way of Allah” to be suicide.

  11. OLD GUY says

    Apr 25, 2020 at 2:23 pm

    Ok Grand Mufti strap a suicide bomb on and go blow yourself up out on the desert. Oh wait that’s not for you only others on your behalf, because you are basically a coward who wants others to do your dirty work. Islam is truly the ideology/religion of the devil, no wonder o many criminals are drawn to it.

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