Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Brotherhood spiritual and intellectual leader, July 2003

“The martyrdom operations carried out by the Palestinian factions to resist the Zionist occupation are not in any way included in the framework of prohibited terrorism, even if the victims include some civilians." Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi in London to Establish 'The International Council of Muslim Clerics’,” MEMRI, July 8, 2004, http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1168.htm#_edn2.