The January 27, 2023 shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem's Neve Ya'akov neighborhood, in which a Palestinian terrorist, Khairi 'Alqam, shot and killed six Israelis and one Ukrainian national, was praised by presenters on Qatar's Al-Jazeera channel, by journalists in the Qatari press and by members of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which has
March 2, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9208
Facebook Shuts Down Account Of International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), Which Frequently Calls For Terror And Jihad
March 2, 2021
On January 5, 2021, Facebook shut down the account of the
International Union Of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which is based in Doha and has been supported since its establishment by the Qatari and Turkish regimes.
[1] The IUMS was founded in 2004 by Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, a major ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood who lives in Qatar and has been sponsored by its regime for years. Al-Qaradhawi also headed the organization until 2018, when he was succeeded by Dr. Ahmad Al-Raissouni.
Neither Facebook nor the IUMS reported the exact reason for the closure of the account, but Arab media that support the IUMS stated that the reason was a fatwa posted two days earlier, on January 3, signed by the organization s president Al-Raissouni and its secretary-general Ali Al-Qaradaghi. The fatwa called for an eco
December 16, 2020
Special Dispatch No. 9092
Online Conferences Sponsored By Turkey Call To Consolidate The Turkish Presence In Jerusalem, Say Turkish People s Claim To Holy Places In Palestine Is No Less Than The Claim Of The Palestinians, Encourage Jihad Against Israel
December 16, 2020
In early November 2020, two online conferences sponsored by Turkey were held on the topic of Jerusalem and Palestine. The conferences were attended by Muslim clerics and politicians, many of them Palestinian and Turkish members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and of Hamas. While stressing the importance of the Palestinians jihad and armed struggle against Israel, the participants also highlighted Turkey s support for the Palestinian cause and emphasized that the Turkish people, no less than the Palestinians, have a claim to the holy places in Jerusalem.