backpedaling furiously
Charles Johnson
Mon Apr 15, 2002 at 8:20 am PDT • Views: 193
Egypt’s top Islamic cleric Sheikh Tantawi digs the hole a little deeper.
He said that killing children and women “is not manly, even if the Jews do so” and that Islam does not sanction it. However, Tantawi said that a would-be suicide bomber may find it impossible not to harm civilians when he attacks the guards of a Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories. If, in such an event, he were to harm civilians, “he is a martyr,” he said.
I’m so glad he cleared that up.
Frank says: