[ 15/01/2010 - 02:49 PM ]
WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Worshipers in tens of West Bank mosques rejected attacks on the great Islamic scholar, Sheikh Yousuf al-Qardawi, for his patriotic stands against the Israeli aggression and siege on the Gaza Strip.
Local sources in the southern West Bank city of al-Beireh said that worshipers at the main mosque in the city rejected the Imam's attack on Qardawi and refused to pray behind him after he read an official sermon prepared by the PA's ministry of awkaf and religious affairs in which it launches a scathing attack on Qardawi.
The sources added that PA security elements stormed the mosque and assaulted the worshipers who started shouting "Allah Akbar" to protest the Imam's attack on Qardawi. The security forces also arrested a number of worshipers.
Meanwhile, worshipers in the Ibrahimi mosque, in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, forced the PA-Dayton Imam to get down from the pulpit when he started to attack sheikh Qardawi, as they interrupted his sermon with cries of "Allahu Akbar" to protest his impertinent attack on such a respectful Islamic figure who always stood by the Palestinian cause.
Local sources in the northern West Bank city of Nablus also reported that worshipers at the Salahi Grand Mosque also protested the Imam's attack on Qardawi and he was forced to get off the pulpit.
There are reports that worshipers in tens of other West Bank mosques protested at the sermon which was distributed the PA-Dayton ministry of awkaf lead by Mahmoud al-Habbash.
It is also important to point out that many free imams refused to read the official sermon, despite risking being sacked.
The PA in Ramallah instruct imams to assail Sheikh Qardawi
[ 15/01/2010 - 01:18 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The ministry of awkaf and religious affairs in Ramallah distributed a Friday sermon to Imams around the West Bank. The sermon launches a scathing attack on Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi.
Media outlets associated with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah has been attacking Sheikh Qardawi, who heads the International Association of Islamic Scholars, since he called on the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League to open an investigation into who was behind postponing the vote on the Goldstone Report at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
At the time Qardawi was asked if it was proved that any of the PA leaders was involved in this postponement and actually supported and encouraged the Israeli war on Gaza would he deserve the death penalty, he said he would even deserve to be stoned.
Qardawi answered him in last Friday's sermon, saying that he never gave this fatwa against Abbas, but what he actually said, at the time, was that if it was proved that any PA official helped the Israeli occupation in its war against Gaza he would not only deserve to be executed for high treason, but even deserves to be stoned, like Arabs stoned the tomb of Abu Rughal, who guided Abraha's army to Kaaba in Makkah to destroy it about 15 centuries ago.
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