Peaceful Islamic Spiritual Leader Tells Followers to Kill Gaddafi

What a dilemma… Who to side with?…
The killer Gaddafi or the violent Islamists?

Peaceful Islamic spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa today for supporters to kill Gaddafi.
Sky News reported:

Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has issued a fatwa that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi should do so ‘to rid Libya of him.’

‘Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should do so,’ Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who is usually based in Qatar, told Al-Jazeera television.

He also told Libyan soldiers ‘not to obey orders to strike at your own people,’ and urged Libyan ambassadors around the world to dissociate themselves from Gaddafi’s regime.

Famous in the Middle East for his at times controversial fatwas, or religious edicts, the octogenarian Qaradawi has celebrity status in the Arab world thanks to his religious broadcasts on Al-Jazeera.

He has in the past defended ‘violence carried out by certain Muslims.’

The West accuses the cleric of supporting ‘terrorism’ because he sanctioned Palestinian suicide attacks in Israel. Britain and the United States have refused to grant him entry visas.

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#1 February 21, 2011 at 8:24 pm
MrGoodWench commented:

I wouldn’t take this fatwa very seriously.
Afterall Salman Rushdie is still alive, isn’t he ?
#2 February 21, 2011 at 8:27 pm
SamR commented:

Do I have to choose? Can’t I prefer a meteorite big enough to take out both?
#3 February 21, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Conservative Ken commented:

What is that old saying about the ‘Evil you know”?

This is like asking me if I want Anthrax or Tuberculosis.
#4 February 21, 2011 at 8:37 pm
wanumba commented:

Maybe Ghaddafi will sic the Lockerbie Bomber on him.
#5 February 21, 2011 at 8:39 pm
NickDeringer commented:

Muslim Brotherhood is against violence except when it’s for it.
#6 February 21, 2011 at 8:44 pm
gus commented:

Opie is in quite a pickle??
#7 February 21, 2011 at 8:52 pm
m commented:

It is Obama’s fault. His foreign policy has failed. We didn’t vote for him; he stole the 2008 election. The Americans are waking up and will vote him out in 2012. Obama have ‘lack’ of inexperience and leadership. It is the liberal news media networks that are telling some disturbing news andl some bad things what has happened over there every days and nights. That why I don’t watch the news very often.
#8 February 21, 2011 at 8:53 pm
RS commented:

Hey, even a stopped (analog) clock is right twice a day.
#9 February 21, 2011 at 9:00 pm
shibumi commented:

Or, as Whoppie Goldberg would say, “it’s not kill-kill.”
#10 February 21, 2011 at 9:13 pm
dcat commented:

Good! After they kill him, maybe they can all just kill each other! Then we won’t have to deal with quite so many than!
#11 February 21, 2011 at 9:14 pm
donh commented:

It is obvious another Ayatulla figure has taken command of Egypt which is now a puppet state of Iran.
#12 February 21, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Joe College commented:

Everything he is calling for is going on now anyway, without the Brotherhood. He’s just trying to get on the right side, to give the appearance that he is at the head of the mob. He thinks that will increasing his stature and maybe give the Brotherhood a chance at Libya.
#13 February 21, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Chippy commented:

Here in America we need to build more mosques so they will like us. And make it fast.
#14 February 21, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Skandia Recluse commented:

Is this the guy who’s going to return to Egypt and be the spiritual leader for the New Egypt?
#15 February 21, 2011 at 9:56 pm
kato commented:

Such hatred. You’d think he was George W. Bush.
#16 February 21, 2011 at 10:24 pm
bg commented:

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hmmm, how ironic, don’t get much more ‘Islamist’ than Qaddafi, just ask
Obama, he knows.. or did you forget Mr. Peace put out his own fatwa..

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#17 February 21, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Chisum commented:

Isn’t Qaddafi best buds with Rev. “Goddam America” Wright?
#18 February 21, 2011 at 10:32 pm
bg commented:

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you know i still can’t help but wonder how the Jewish vote put Obama way
over the top.. i mean, since Israel supposedly has the best spy network in
the world, one would think they would have at least known as much about
Obama before the election as we did, go figure..

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#19 February 21, 2011 at 10:42 pm
Dennis commented:

Well, “Qaradawi’s side” (anti-Gaddafi folks) winning doesn’t mean Islamists will hold power when the dust clears, but Gaddafi’s side winning certainly means Gaddafi WILL hold power when the dust clears.
#20 February 21, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Rhoda A commented:

Dennis, In theory you are correct; however, the muslim brotherhood is the best organized group there. Remember the Russian revolution was taken over by the communists AFTER the Tzar was overthrown.