Shmuley Boteach in the Jerusalem Post:

If that amorality weren’t wacky enough, Friedman then begins to personally praise Fadlallah, quoting Richard Norton of Boston University who said that Fadlallah supported women and “was not afraid to speak about sexuality,” adding that “he even once gave [a mosque sermon] about sexual urges and female masturbation.”
In the long line of recent bizarre columns by Friedman, this one wins a prize.
For the record I too am a cleric who writes about sexuality. My book Kosher Sex has appeared in 17 languages and its follow up, The Kosher Sutra, was likewise a best-seller. Having been raised by a single mother and as the father of six daughters, I too am a strong advocate for women. But I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were the spiritual head of a genocidal terrorist movement who publicly preached about the need for more suicide bombs against children, then notwithstanding how many lectures I might give about masturbation, it would not save me from being seen as a monster. Friedman’s train has simply left the tracks.
But lest you conclude that the three-time Pulitzer-prize winner has lost all sense of morality and the ability to condemn murder, he does confess that Fadlallah “was not a social worker. He had some dark side.”
Well now, Tom, you don’t say. Really?
Dark side, Tom, is Mel Gibson, who is a racist and misogynist. But even Mel hasn’t killed anyone or advocated that civilians be blown up (at least not yet). But here is Fadlallah in a 2002 interview with the Daily Telegraph: “I was not the one who launched the idea of so-called suicide bombings, but I have certainly argued in favor of them…[the Palestinians] are in a state of war with Israel. They are not aiming to kill civilians but, in war, civilians do get killed.”
Fadlallah is, of course, lying through his teeth, as the first target of a suicide attacker is civilians which is why, after the Mercaz Harav massacre in Jerusalem of March 6, 2008, when a Palestinian gunman walked into a yeshiva and shot eight rabbinical students dead, Fadlallah called the attack “heroic.”