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Are there do-overs on fatwas?

A Jordanian sheikh who, in a video released on Nov. 1, issued a fatwa against killing Jews now wants a mulligan. Sheikh Ali Halabi, head of the Imam al-Albani religious studies center, proclaimed in the video that killing Jews outside the context of war and conflict was forbidden.

After the video went viral, his remarks were blasted on Arab social media sites. Halabi quickly changed his tune.

Related: Shocker: Jordanian cleric issues fatwa against killing Jews, Nov. 2, 2015

In his do-over video, released by MEMRI on Nov. 3, the sheikh said “jihad against the Jews, fighting them, and liberating the land from them is a binding and mandatory duty, incumbent upon the Islamic countries and upon the Muslim individuals, but it depends on capabilities, because everybody knows that America has Israel’s back. Are today’s fragmented Muslims up for the task? Let’s be honest. Let’s not fool ourselves.”

In the new video, Halabi calls Jews “the brothers of apes and pigs,” a common insult used by Muslims in the past including Palestinian Authority Mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad.

“The Jews are occupiers and plunderers. They are people [prone to] betrayal, fraud, cunning, and deceit. They are the slayers of the prophets and the messengers,” Halabi concluded in the new video.

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