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Cleric Lauds Bombings by Women
The Washington Post, April 2, 2002


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Cleric Lauds Bombings by Women

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Tuesday, April 2, 2002; Page A10

BEIRUT, April 1 -- One of Lebanon's most prominent Shiite Muslim cleric has given his blessing to female suicide bombers like one who struck in Jerusalem on Friday, calling them authors of a "new, glorious history for Arab and Muslim women."
    In the transcript of an interview with al-Jazeera television faxed by his office today, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said a holy war of the sort he feels Palestinians are waging against Israel could require women to undertake such suicide attacks.
    "It is true that Islam has not asked women to carry out jihad, but it permits them to take part if the necessities of defensive war dictate that women should carry out any regular military operations, or suicide operations," he said. "We believe that the women who carry out suicide bombings are martyrs."
    In Friday's attack in Jerusalem, an 18-year-old Palestinian woman killed herself and two other people in a supermarket. She was the second female Palestinian suicide bomber in the 18-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
    Fadlallah, once the spiritual guide to Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, has played a largely symbolic role since his falling-out with the Iranian patrons of the group.

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