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http://www.bouti.com/bouti_e_fatawa_c14.htm#4
Is it for a non-palestinan native to come from a foreign land to do jihad (isteshhad fee sabiliah) against the Jews in Philistine that are slaughtring our fellow Muslim brothers within the blesed land?
Not the Palestinians alone are commissioned to practice Jihad which ought to be done until Palestine is liberated from the aggressors and occupiers. Rather, all Muslims are commissioned to practice it, because Palestine is a land of Islam, which all Muslims must guard it and protect it from aggression
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP124506
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1245
August 11, 2006 No.1245
"Syrian Cleric Influential in the U.S. on Hizbullah Al-Manar TV: Islamic Law Permits Destroying U.S, Israeli Facilities and Interests Worldwide"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On August 8, 2006, Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV aired an interview with Syrian cleric Muhammad Said Ramadhan Al-Bouti. In the interview, Al-Bouti stated that Islamic law allows for the destruction of U.S. and Israeli facilities and interests throughout the world, as long as "innocent people are not killed in the process."
TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1230 .
In a previous appearance, on Syrian TV on November 11, 2005, Al-Bouti claimed that President George W. Bush's grandfather had written a book about the life of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, "published in 1831, [in which] he says: 'As long as the Muslims' empire is not destroyed, God will not allow the return of the Jews to the homes of their fathers and forefathers.' This book exists."
TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT:http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P931 .
Sheikh Al-Bouti has many followers in the West, particularly in the U.S., who often seek his advice via the "Fatawa" page of his multilingual website (http://www.bouti.com/bouti_e_fatawa.htm ), WHICH IS HOSTED IN THE U.S. [1]
On this page, Al-Bouti answers questions from his followers on topics ranging from the Islamic permissibility of U.S. 401K pension plans and advice to young Muslims vacationing in the U.S., through family relations, to jihad. Some notable questions from individuals in the U.S. have concerned issues such as why American Muslims should not join the U.S. Army; how a Syrian living in the U.S. can convert his friends to Islam; and what protocol Muslim women in the U.S. should follow in wearing the hijab.
On the topic of jihad, Sheikh Al-Bouti has answered questions regarding jihad against the Jews, the return of the Caliphate, donating funds to support jihad, and boycotting U.S.-made products. He has also answered questions on what Islam says about the People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians, to whom Al-Bouti refers as "infidels"), and on whether Osama bin Laden is "good or bad."
According to his website, http://www.bouti.com/index.htm , Sheikh Al-Bouti has been on the Faculty of Religion at Al-Azhar University in Cairo; Dean of Religion and head of the Department of Tenets and Religion at Damascus University, Syria; a member of the Royal Society of Islamic Civilization Research in Amman, Jordan; a member of the High Council of the Oxford Academy in the U.K.; and a frequent participant in conferences and symposiums throughout the world, [2] including in Europe and the U.S. - in addition to authoring over 40 books."