Al Qaradawi's fatwa permissive to blow up oneself sparks off doctrinal controversy

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, after a recent appearance on Al-Jazeera TV, raised a wide-ranging controversy by responding to a question about the religion’s opinion about those people who blow themselves up in various processions and locations, stressing that such an act is allowed to be carried out but at the discretion of the group, without however, specifying the identity of such a group.

He said that such an act is permissible only as part of a collective measure, and only when the self-bombing is inevitable and is meant for the support of the legitimate rights.
Sheikh Qaradawi, in an attempt to minimize the “collateral damage”, argued that if the bomber himself managed to survive by himself, let him do it because the original aim is to kill others in “jihad” or be killed.
Al Qaradawi’s latest fatwa did not pass without provoking the bitter anger of the Egyptian regime and of the victims of the recent bombings in Alexandria and Tanta, who translated the fatwa into several languages and sent it to many state institutional bodies in order to further reign in the Muslim Brotherhood opponents whom Al Qaradawi is known to be a fervent supporter.
He’s wanted by the Egyptian security services for his fiery comments and controversial fatwas (religious decrees).