Algerian Civil War
CONFLICTED
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A Fatwa on the Islamic Jihad
The UK authorities believed his story about being a persecuted religious free thinker. The GIA reached out to him because he had gathered around him a strong Algerian diaspora following in the UK, France and Belgium. They wanted a jurist opinion on a theological matter in order to for him to sanction an act of bloodshed that they are planning to carry out. This sort of fatwa, I mean, amen, it's unprecedented. It flies in the face of classical Islamic jurisprudence on jihad. What basically 100% had any jurist of any note in the history of Islam allowed Mujahideen to indiscriminately kill civilians, women and children?
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