All lives apparently not equal

Qatar's leading English-language daily, The Peninsula, reports that Al-Jazeera's leading telecleric, Dr. Yousuf Al Qaradawi, is calling for "militant groups in the Islamic world to re-examine their concept of 'Jihad' and open a dialogue with Muslim scholars." From The Peninsula :

"There no justification for the suicide operation in Iraq where civilians are being killed, as Iraq has many developed weapon to fight the enemy. This was acceptable in Palestine in a certain time of period when the Palestinian people didn't have weapons to fight their enemies. Now, thank Allah, they do have some weapons and there is no much of that kind of operations," Qaradawi said answering a question from the audience.

Too bad he couldn't take the opportunity to issue a blanket condemnation of all terror attacks that target innocent civilians. Perhaps Dr. Qaradawi ought to re-examine his own concept of Jihad.