European Council for Fatwa and Research

The European Council for Fatwa and Research (ECFR), the "European Council for Fatwa and Research", is an organization of Islamic scholars. The Council was founded in London in 1997 and has its seat in Dublin . Founding member and chairman is Yusuf al-Qaradawi . The Secretary General is Hussein Halawa . The council had 38 members in 2010 and is part of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood . The body is based on the concept of Fiqh al-aqallīyāt .

The organization tries to bring Islamic scholars together in Europe and to standardize Islamic jurisprudence , and is particularly dedicated to issuing fatwas for Muslims in Europe in order - according to the Sharia - to solve their everyday problems and their interaction with the secular ones Regulate Western societies. The organization bases its reports and studies on the four classical schools of law in Islam .

Positions

At an ECFR conference in Stockholm in 2003, the chairman of the organization approved suicide bombings in Palestine. In particular, he justified civilian victims and the death of uninvolved Muslims. Literally he explained:

"What weapon can harm their enemy, can prevent him from sleeping, and can strip him of a sense of security and stability, except for these human bombs - a young man or woman who blows himself or herself up amongst their enemy. This is a weapon the likes of which the enemy cannot obtain, even if the US provides it with billions [of dollars] and the most powerful weapons, because it is a unique weapon that Allah has placed only in the hands of the men of belief. It is a type of divine justice on the face of the earth ... it is the weapon of the wretched weak in the face of the powerful tyrant ... "

The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg characterized the ECFR in spring 2011 as follows:

The ECFR sees itself as a representative of the Islamic world and, above all, of the Muslim minorities in the West. The Council's pronouncements indicate that the development of a European-style Islam and an interpretation of Islam based on democratic values ​​and the Western understanding of human rights and self-determination is to be prevented.

Web links

• Organization homepage (Arabic)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Organization site, in Arabic
2. ↑ The Global Muslim Brotherhood daily report: about  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated June 2, 2007  
3. ↑ memri.org