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At 96, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qardawi - the "Sheikh of Death," as he is known among some of the Western intelligence agencies - is still the most popular Sunni Muslim arbiter of our generation;

"Global Mufti", the father of the "Pika al-Akliat" - the laws of Muslims living in the West - whose rulings against Muslim minorities around the world are considered moderate, modern and even relatively innovative.

But the pragmatism and liberalism of the thinker and arbitrator al-Qaradawi - who has become the supreme spiritual authority of the Muslim Brotherhood around the world - ends when it comes to the Jewish-Palestinian conflict.

In their joint book, "The Head of Hamas" (Pardes Publishing), which is being published these days, Dr. Nessia Rubinstein-Shemer and Dr. Shaul Bartel reveal how extremist and influential al-Qardawi is and what a central place in his thinking his writings and rulings regarding Jews, Zionism and the state occupy. Israel.

Al-Qaradawi's preoccupation with his son, it turns out, is almost obsessive.

Apart from an orderly ideological doctrine that seeks to erase the State of Israel from the universe and destroy its Jewish inhabitants, al-Qaradawi does not withdraw from dealing with details and sometimes even details.

He often halakhically and spiritually directs the image of the war on terror, which has been going on here against us for decades.

Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, the northern faction of the Israeli Islamic Movement and the terrorists of all shades, are the contractors who are actually fulfilling its murderous ideology.

Bartel and Rubinstein-Shemer discover, for example, that al-Qardawi is the man whose rulings have included women in the Palestinian terrorist circle.

This happened immediately after his ruling (contrary to the position of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin) which also allowed Palestinian women interested in carrying out massacre (suicide) attacks on Jews in Israel, even without their husbands' permission.

This ruling had and still has a dramatic effect on the map of terrorism against us, although in 2006 al-Qaradawi moderated it slightly.

Already in the years of the second intifada, 68 Palestinian women were arrested who wanted to carry out suicide bombings, and another ten managed to carry out their time.

Since then there have been hundreds more.

"This far-reaching permit has no parallel in other wars waged between Muslims and non-Muslims," ​​Bartel and Rubinstein-Shemer note.

GSS investigators who visit terrorist homes and suicide bombers, even today, often find on their bookshelves al-Qaradawi's writings dealing with "sacrifice," meaning suicide bombings against Jews in Israel. Eliyahu Kay last November near the Western Wall.

Extensive literature by al-Qaradawi was found in the killer's home, in the Shuafat refugee camp.

Abu Shahidam, who wrote in his will that "our blessed words and devotion ... require sacrifice and devotion on our part ...", also said that "he has long prepared himself to join the martyrs and walk in their path."

The killer was a loyal student of al-Qaradawi and a Muslim halakhic teacher even passed on the teachings of the sheikh of terror to his many listeners, as part of religious classes, sponsored by the Waqf, on the Temple Mount.

Another figure who was deeply influenced by al-Qaradawi is that of the former Mufti of Jerusalem, now the chairman of the Supreme Muslim Council, Sheikh Akram Sabri. Al-Qaradawi himself took them from the books of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna (1949-1906).

"The longing for death"

"The Arab nation," al-Qaradawi quotes al-Bana, "prefers the death industry and knows how to die a dignified death, which God longs for, which gives its perpetrators a powerful life in this world and the eternal paradise in the next world ... the longing for death that gives you the life".

Hamas operatives in Gaza, Photo: GettyImages

To what extent does this death philosophy affect terrorists who have taken part in the latest waves of terrorism?

Rubinstein-Shemer and Bartel explain that in the case of al-Qardawi, it is not a "Torah that remains hanging in the sky," but an orderly worldview, which al-Qardawi sees to be realized: "The Hamas Ministry of Culture included Al-Qaradawi as a must - Quite a few Hamas prisoners in prisons are consuming al-Qaradawi between the bars, as they did before. ".

What is meant by maximum?

"The implication is that if a mother is to be persuaded to allow her son to carry out a suicide bombing, al-Qaradawi will provide legitimacy for it. In his memoirs and sermons, he says that his friend 'Abd al-Wahhab, who was orphaned by his father and mother raised him and his brother, dreamed all his life of going to fight in Palestine, but his mother, despite his pleas, refused to allow him to join the fighting.

Al-Qaradawi and two of his friends, who could not stand their friend's grief, went to 'Abd al-Wahhab's village and talked about the mother's heart for hours.

They told her about the mothers of the heroes in Muslim history, about 'Abd al-Wahab's desire for jihad and explained to her that life and death are in the hands of Allah.

"This is how we sat and talked to the mother," al-Qaradawi describes, "until she overcame her natural pity for her son and told us: If this is my son's wish, I will not stand in his way."

'Abd al-Wahhab, al-Qaradawi recounts in his sermons, "so happy, a smile spread across his face and he kissed his mother's hand and head."

There would be no point in dwelling here on this slightly simplistic act, had it not been for Hamas turning it into a founding story and one of the central features of the martyrs' genre, while sucking from it the "mother motif" that allows a girl to go out and engage in jihad.

From this, among other things, are also derived the descriptions of mothers that martyrs rejoice next to the bodies of their sons who carried out sacrificial attacks, as well as many of the letters that left many victims to their mothers before they went out to harm Jews.

One of the harshest examples, which well illustrates the doctrine of death that al-Qaradawi and Hamas have adopted, is embodied in one of the children's programs that Hamas television broadcasts over and over again over the years.

I watched it too.

"Holding a bomb in your arms"

The studio is full of dolls and cheerful colors, hosted by children, including the daughter of the terrorist Rim Riashi, who exploded at the Erez crossing in 2004 and murdered four Israelis.

On the screen is an actress who plays Riashi, and a girl who plays her daughter.

The "daughter girl" asks "Mother" in the song: "What are you carrying in your lap? A gift or a toy for me?"

And replies herself: "Instead of carrying me, you held a bomb in your arms. Only now did I realize what was more precious than us."

When the broadcast returns to the studio, the presenter presents "The children of the martyr who sacrificed everything for her people and did not treat her children blood and flesh, for whose sake she sacrificed her life to Allah."

"For al-Qardawi, there is no problem killing everyone."

Rubinstein-Shemer,

Al-Qaradawi, as your number suggests, also allows harm to children, infants, women and the elderly.

How does he explain this?

Rubinstein-Shemer and Bartel: "His argument is that all Israeli society is a conscripted society, whether in practice or in reserve. In it, so there's no problem killing them all.

"Al-Qaradawi's permission to send suicide bombers is special only for the struggle for Palestine, because the Palestinians are in a state of 'bundle', a great need, for which even things that are normally allowed are allowed. For example, a son does not have to get permission from his parents when he goes out. "The act of sacrifice. The Palestinians are therefore allowed to turn themselves into bombs and Jews must be killed until they die or leave Palestine."

Al-Qaradawi retired in 2018 from the most significant organization he founded, the Union of Muslim Religious Scholars.

Sheikh Prof. Ahmad al-Risoni replaced him there.

Despite this, al-Qaradawi is still very influential.

How does he do it?

Rubinstein-Shemer: "He will probably influence others after he leaves us. The man has written more than 120 books, which have been translated into many languages. His first book - 'Forbidden and Allowed in Islam', is the best-selling Muslim religious book in the world after the Koran, Two of his books, The Laws of Jihad and Jerusalem - The Problem of Every Muslim, are found in almost every Hamas home.

"The organization of clerics he founded now has more than 90,000 Muslim clerics, and in our case, including Saleh Aruri, who has directed terrorism against us in recent years, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mashaal, and the heads of the northern faction of the Islamic Movement in Israel. "

The money path

In this last matter, Mash'al and Rubinstein-Shemer do not elaborate, but security sources reveal that what is left of al-Qaradawi's "Charity Fund" and also the "Waqf of the Nation," which Raed Salah was involved in establishing - all Muslim Brotherhood bodies, are flowing money into East Jerusalem. , To Judea and Samaria and even to Gaza.

The money goes through Turkey and from there, more than once, from banks in Turkey to banks in Judea and Samaria. Activists from organizations such as Kandil or the IHH, which are still present in Turkey, are sometimes involved in the money transfer, as part of the al-Qaradawi network and its people.

Security sources also describe the movement of couriers from Turkey to Israel, and often the couriers themselves do not know for what purposes the money is directed, which is officially intended for needy families.

Until recently, the funds from the al-Qaradawi funds were linked to it also went to the Morbiton and Morbitat organizations, which for years have been trying to torpedo Jewish visits to the Temple Mount and are now trying to return to activity there.

Does the southern faction, represented by RAAM in the Knesset and the government, also accept al-Qaradawi as a halakhic authority?

Rubinstein-Shemer: "Unlike the northern faction of Raed Salah, they reject the ruling of al-Qaradawi, which prohibits participation in Israeli elections. Sheikh Raed Badir of Kfar Qassem is the main arbiter of the southern faction. "The elder is great, but he explained that there are things that al-Qaradawi rules and the southern faction disagrees with. His ruling, Badir points out, may be appropriate for Muslim minorities in Europe, but is not necessarily appropriate for the reality of Arab life in Israel."

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What did Bedir mean?

Rubinstein-Shemer: "The political issue is the most prominent, but there are other examples. Al-Qaradawi, for example, forbade Muslims in Israel to donate organs for fear of reaching Jews. "Even Sheikh Mashhur Fawaz, a judge of the northern faction, followed Badir for the same reason, after a 17-year-old boy from Umm al-Fahm was killed by a policeman and his limbs saved the lives of one Arab and five Jews."

Al-Qardawi, whose rulings and directives have triggered several severe riots on the Temple Mount in recent years, and which has even been involved in drawing the forbidden and permissible boundaries of famine-stricken Palestinian terrorists, does not differentiate between Jews and Zionists.

He is not satisfied with the role of interpreter of Muslim law and believes that as a cleric he must stand up and side with the Palestinian resistance.

In the long run, he aspires to the establishment of Islamic suits, and in the meantime he extends his sponsorship to a number of institutions - such as the International Jerusalem Institution, based in Beirut - that take an active part in ongoing incitement against Israel and the Jewish people.

Al-Qaradawi now sees the struggle in Israel as a direct continuation of the war between Muhammad and the Jews of a state, in the early days of Islam.

Al-Qaradawi admires the unity on the Jewish side and criticizes the split among Muslims.

He often uses the writings of Jewish thinkers such as Rabbi Kook or Martin Buber, in an attempt to prove his claim that "the Jews violated their covenant with Gd" for example in the act of the sin of the calf.

In al-Qardawi's view, Bartl and Rubinstein-Shemer note, "the Muslim war against the Jews is not only military-political, but also ideological, religious and moral."

Three personalities have shaped the perception of the man who over the years has become a kind of chief rabbi for Sunni Muslims in the world, and also the "chief rabbi" of suicide terrorists: the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Bana;

The Grand Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini, from whom al-Qaradawi copied the plot that the Jews seek to destroy al-Aqsa and harm the saints of Islam;

And Sid Katab, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who was executed there.

Decades later, al-Qaradawi's popular television program, Al Jazeera, was recently released.

60 million Muslims watched it every week, but al-Qaradawi, at an extreme age, is still active on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, and millions are thirsty for his words.

Although he does not hold an official position in Hamas, he continues to ideologically and halakhically direct the suicide terrorism perpetrated by Hamas and jihad, to refer them to charitable money (charity) and to quote another Jew-hating exemplar, Amin al-Husseini, who said "Palestine is not a homeless people, to be given To a people without a homeland. " 

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