Bin Laden should be tried by Muslim judges

Noted Islamic scholar, Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi has said the Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Abu Musad Al Zarqawi, now based in Iraq, should be tried by Muslim judges if they are caught.

A local Arabic daily quoted Dr Al Qaradawi as telling a German magazine in an interview that most Muslims have sympathy for terrorists because of the atrocities being committed against the Palestinians.

Islam, he reiterated, did not preach terrorism at all. He clarified that a Muslim suicide bomber attacking a bus full of innocent civilians was to be differentiated from the one who was carrying out a suicide mission to resist foreign invasion. Islam, Dr Al Qaradawi said, did not allow the killing of innocent women and children.