During a seminar held at the Journalists? Syndicate, the heavyweight Muslim scholar Shaykh al-Qaradawi discussed, among other subjects, the situation in Iraq. Shaykh al-Qaradawi, the head of the newly established, Ireland-based Union of Muslim Scholars, was quoted as saying that all Americans in Iraq are combatants and fighting them is an obligation and they should be driven out of Iraq. ?There is no difference between civilians and combatants in this regard because American civilians came to Iraq to serve the occupation, Shaykh al-Qaradawi reportedly said.