Saudi Paper: No limits on actions against Israel.

ARAB NEWS(Saudi) 22 Dec.'03:"Sept.11 Attacks Nothing But
Terrorism"Adil Salahi

[Adil Salah answers reader's questions]

QUOTES FROM TEXT:

"Islam does not approve of indiscriminate killing in
any situation."

"I cannot understand how a Muslim could justify
boarding a plane, intending to kill all its passengers by flying into a
building used by thousands of civilians."

"To resist Israel by all means available to us is
justified under devine and human law. It is indeed Israel and its supporters
that are engaged in a gigantic and continuous act of terrorism."

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EXCERPTS:
Q. Could you please tell me whether the Sept. 11 attacks
were acts of jihad or terrorism? Would those who were killed in them be
martyrs? What about other acts such as those done by Hamas and similar
groups?

A. Islam does not approve of indiscriminate killing in any
situation. When Muslim armies went out to war in the early period of Islam,
the Prophet... and his successors... gave them clear instructions.

They ordered the army not to kill a child, a woman, an
elderly person, a priest or anyone who is not engaged in the fighting or
helping the enemy fighters. The attacks on the US...on Sept. 11 involved
hijacking planes and flying them into buildings.

The passengers in the planes were innocent bystanders and
the people in those buildings were the same. Those who launched this attack
did not consider them so, because they followed a mistaken view that
everyone who pays taxes to the US government is aiding war against Islam.
This view is seriously defective, because people have to pay taxes or they
will be in great trouble with their government. Besides, to ask every
citizen in the world to have an informed opinion on the justice of our cause
and then to take an attitude of peaceful disobedience to their government is
to live in a dreamland. ...

I cannot understand how a Muslim could justify boarding a
plane, intending to kill all its passengers by flying it into a building
used by thousands of civilians. This is simply terrorism and cannot be
justified under Islamic law. The operations launched against Israeli
occupation are totally different. They are undertaken against occupiers who
have turned the local people, Muslims and Christians, from their homes and
lands, desecrated mosques and terrorized the population into leaving their
land. To resist Israel by all means available to us is justified under
divine and human law. It is indeed Israel and its supporters that are
engaged in a gigantic and continuous act of terrorism.

[IMRA: Contradicts opening statement.]

Dr. Joseph Lerner, Co-Director IMRA