From The Religion Of Peace

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

APR 23, 2020 8:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER16 COMMENTS

“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.”