The Global Fatwa Index revealed that 100% of religious doctrines issued by terror groups call for the destruction of states and abolishment of nations and patriotic values, exploiting religious scriptures to brainwash youth into recruitment and staging terror attacks.
The Index, calculated by the Egyptian Fatwa Center after surveying some 300 fatwas released by extremist organizations, shows that false fatwas issued by terrorist groups conclusively call for the “destruction of national values” and heavily rely on wrongly invoking the Haram- duty absolutes in Islam.
ISIS, in a 100 percent of its fatwas called for the “obliteration” of nations and ending the idea of “states, borders, and nations.”
The Global Fatwa Index, after analyzing ISIS rhetoric on the topic of homeland, stressed that the group is keen to “blur the meaning of patriotism so that it can inculcate its malicious ideology into the hearts of its followers.”
In the meantime, the Global Fatwa Index said that al-Qaeda's literature referred to nationalism in a matter equivocal to infidelity. Al-Qaeda rhetoric focused on dismantling the concept of a homeland, considering 80% of the time patriots as infidels.
Most terror groups are highly expansionist and view all land as endowed religiously to their authority.
Al-Shabab and the Muslim Brotherhood, both of which are designated terror groups, released Fatwas nearly identical to that released by ISIS and al-Qaeda. For the Brotherhood, the homeland is the property of the group and cannot exist outside the host of fatwas the group issues.
Overall, the Index called for the need for religious awareness worldwide and promoted a shift away from conservative means of teaching religious affairs and indoctrination and closer to a method incorporating dialogue and critical analysis when interpreting religion in modern days.
