Turkish Scholar Fatwa Urges Killing ISIL

Saturday, July 25, 2015

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CAIRO – A popular Turkish televangelist has issued a controversial fatwa in which he urged people to kill militants belonging to the so-called Islamic State (ISIL), describing them as "the dogs of hell."

“If you run across them, slaughter them like you fight with the people of Ad and İrem [two places destroyed by God],” Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü said in his July 23 column for daily Vahdet, adapting a quote by Prophet Muhammad to today’s ISIL militants, Hurriyet Daily News reported.

"Those who kill them will be awarded and those who are killed by them will be martyrs," he added.

The sensational fatwa encourages people to kill members of ISIL, in the first such opinion expressed by Muslim scholars.

Ünlü, popularly known as “Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca” (Robed Ahmet Hoca) among his followers, also described ISIL militants as “the dogs of Hell.”

He was offered security protection earlier this year by the Turkish state after he was threatened by ISIL.

“If I am on God’s list, I will die anyway. If I am not on that list, then ISIL cannot intervene [to kill me],” he said at the time.

Ünlü is known for his controversial fatwas after he declared that oral sex is not forbidden in Islam.

Militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been widely condemned by Muslims worldwide who staged several protests to express anger against the terrorist group.

Echoing the Al-Azhar Grand Imam's condemnation of the group, Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh has urged Muslims to take up arms against the militant group’s members, condemning them as aggressors who abuse people’s lives, possessions and honor.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has dismissed ISIL announcement of forming a “caliphate” in areas they control in Iraq and Syria, saying it lacked any Islamic or realistic aspects.

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