Well…Well…Well…Ali Gom’a agrees with Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
Ed Husain and Maajid Nawaz claim that Shiekh Ali Gom’a is a great sheikh that points us in the correct direction when tackling ‘extremism’, but guess what comes out? Ali Gom’a’s views on suicide operations, within occupied Palestine, are identical to Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. Similarly he argues for an identical position regarding military and civilian populations in occupied Palestine, arguing that such a distinction does not exist amongst ‘Israelis’. Let me quote:
The Zionists themselves do not differentiate between civilian and military personnel. They have set the entire people to military service. The civilian settler who occupies land in a state of war is a Harbi [that is, a non-Muslim living in an area regarded as 'Dar Al-harb,' the 'domain of war,' in which Islam does not dominate]. Besides, everyone in Israel, civilians and military personnel, bear arms. That is, they are ‘Ahl Al-Qital’[that is, those who deserve to be fought].
All this and Ed went out of his way to support the ban on Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi and at the same time showers praises on Ali Goma. For more details on Al Gom’a’s views on the issue click on this article from the ‘Maqasid Blog’.
Another favourite of Maajid & Ed, namely Sheikh Muhammad Sa’id Ramadhan Al-Buti, quotes a notorious Anti-Semitic fabrication about Benjamin Franklin supporting the expulsion of Jews from the United States! This can be viewed by clicking on this MEMRI link. Without doubt MEMRI is a notorious Zionist and pathologically racist website, set-up by Ex-’Israeli’ intelligence service agents, but the clip itself is authentic.
I personally don’t think the vapid Ed actually knows the ideas of the people he cites as ’scholarly giants’, due to his lack of credentials and rudimentary knowledge of religious views, and how they map out to specific organizations and individuals.
