(Gatestone Institute) Bassam Tawil - More than 150 prominent Muslim scholars from 50 countries are currently attending a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the situation in Gaza. The conference was organized by the Qatar-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a body founded in 2004 by the late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian scholar known as the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain have added Qatar's IUMS to their terrorism blacklists, saying it used "Islamic rhetoric as a cover to facilitate terrorist activities." For Qatar's Muslim scholars, the war in Gaza did not start on Oct. 7 when Hamas invaded Israel. Rather, the war began the moment Israel fired back, and the only victims are the Palestinians in Gaza. The conference totally ignores Hamas's responsibility for the suffering of the Palestinians. The Muslim scholars at the conference also made no reference to the thousands of Israelis and foreign nationals, including children, women and the elderly, who were murdered, wounded and kidnapped by Palestinian Muslims on Oct. 7. Earlier this year, the IUMS issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) in which it called on all Muslims to wage Jihad (holy war) against Israel. The scholars want to see Muslims commit more massacres against Jews.
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