AMMAN,
November 4 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Muslim scholars issued
a fatwa at the end of a meeting in Jordan Sunday, November 3, banning
Muslim leaders from cooperating with the United States in a war on
Iraq, and branding Washington and its ally Israel as "enemies of
God".
Jihad
against the American aggressor is compulsory, the scholars said,
adding that all U.S. interests in the Muslim world are permissible
targets if the United States stages a war against 12-year-sanction-hit
Iraq.
All
those who collaborate with the United States in this new aggression is
a traitor to Allah, his Prophet and all Muslims and could be
considered an infidel.
"Governed
and governing Muslims are prohibited from helping the Americans who
are preparing to attack and occupy Iraq," said the fatwa, a
religious edict, a copy of which was obtained by Agence France Presse
(AFP).
The
ban was issued at the end of a meeting in Amman organized by Jordan's
opposition Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political branch of the
influential Muslim Brotherhood.
Dr.
Ibrahim Zayd Al-Keelani, head of the Ulama (scholar) committee in the
Islamic Action Front said that the United States is carrying out a
crusade against all Muslims and is therefore an enemy that must be
fought against and Muslims should not help the U.S. war effort
"by giving them access to their airports, their ports and their
national airspace, or by providing them fuel for the aircraft and
their vehicles."
He
warned Muslims against "cooperating [with the U.S.] through
espionage to help" and banned them from "selling the
American aggressor a morsel of bread or a drop of water".
The
scholars also criticized Arab rulers who prevent Muslims from
"fighting the Jews and the Americans" whom they described as
"enemies of God".
"Islam
dictates that all Muslims must not obey anyone who stands in the way
of the jihad [holy war] and that they must carry out the jihad ...
against the enemies of God, the Jews and the Americans, who have shed
the blood of Muslims in Palestine, Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq,"
the fatwa said.
It also urged Muslims to "boycott" U.S. products in an
effort to face "the crusade led by the U.S. administration".
The
statement issued by the scholars slammed regimes in the Islamic world
for not applying the Sharia'a law, considering it an aggression on the
most delicate matters of divinity. They also slammed not calling for
Jihad against occupiers, adding that fighting the Jews who occupy
Palestine and all other enemies of the Islamic nation is compulsory on
every Muslim.
