October 5, 2001 Yusuf al-Qaradawi, director of Sunna Research Center in Qatar

The first speaker, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a theologian and director of the Sunna Research Center in Qatar, denounced the attacks, but added:

”We Arabs are among the most sensitive to this because of the evil inflicted on us by arrogant Zionists. We go to sleep at night and get up in the morning in a Palestine transformed into a continuous funeral. We refuse terrorism but don’t consider it terrorism to defend one’s own home.”

Source: New York Times