The newly appointed Egyptian Mufti (one of the highest clerical positions in Islam), Sheikh Dr. ‘Ali Gum’a, issued a fatwa shortly after the beginning of the Iraq War forbidding Muslims in the US military from fighting other Muslims.

“A Hadith says: ‘A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim; he does not abandon him and he does not give him away.’ … The Muslim soldier in the American army must refrain [from participating] in this war, and if he cannot, he must serve in the [logistic] ranks, and if he cannot, he must submit his resignation. If he is forced to [fight] and is among the combating ranks, he is forbidden from killing a Muslim with his weapon; if he kills him in error he must pay reparation. If he kills him intentionally, he has committed the sin of killing a Muslim intentionally.”

Sheikh Gum’a has also gone on record supporting Islamic orthodoxy that says Muslims can agree to anything, sign any treaties, and then break the agreements as soon as they are strong enough:

” The one with the authority to declare Jihad is the imam who has under his [command] a regular army capable of waging a war of regular armies. When the Prophet was in Mecca, he had no army, and therefore he could not declare Jihad … that is, when there was a state of enmity between Muslims and the polytheists and there was harm caused to the believers by the polytheists, all the Prophet ordered his comrades to do was to say: ‘You have your religion and we have our religion.’

“[But], when the army in Al-Madina was formed, there was land, there was a regime, and there was the capability to fight, the Prophet launched war …

“The Prophet taught us that warfare can exist only under a flag, and that the one with the right to declare Jihad is the one with the flag. The one with the flag in our day is the president of the state, in every one of the [Muslim] countries. He, and the leaders at his side, are capable of assessing whether this war is beneficial or whether it leads to loss, whether the war will protect the Muslims or whether it will harm them … “

This Egyptian hate-monger also (unsurprisingly) supports and encourages suicide bombings and shaheed attacks:

“The one who carries out Fedaii [martyrdom] operations against the Zionists and blows himself up is, without a doubt, a Shahid because he is defending his homeland against the occupying enemy who is supported by superpowers such as the U.S. and Britain.”

This is the mindset of our enemies, expressed by a “spiritual leader” who now reigns at the very highest level of Islam.

The United States gives Egypt more than $2 billion a year in foreign aid, and they appoint an evil bloodthirsty freak like this as their Mufti.