March 27, 2003
JUST TURN LEFT, GENERAL:
Syria's mufti calls for suicide attacks (News 24, 27/03/2003)Syrian mufti Sheikh Ahmad Kaftaro, the country's top Muslim religious authority, called on Thursday for suicide bombings against the US and British troops in Iraq."I call on Muslims everywhere to use all means possible to thwart the aggression, including martyr operations against the belligerent American, British and Zionist invaders," he said in a statement, a copy of which was faxed to AFP.
"Resistance to the belligerent invaders is an obligation for all Muslims, starting with (those in) Iraq," the mufti said. [...]
Separately, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad predicted the United States and Britain would never be able to bring Iraq under their full control and would face "popular Arab resistance", in an interview published on Thursday in Lebanese daily As-Safir.
Bashar al-Assad should be made to join his Ba'athist pal Saddam Hussein in Hell. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 27, 2003 5:10 PM
Anti-War protestors will also be pleased to know they're fulfilling the wishes of their Commander in Chief........Kaftaro also "urged 'free citizens' all over the world to demonstrate, strike and disrupt airports and ports and any other facilities that support the war effort in Iraq."
Congratulations San Francisco, NY, et al. You've got a big admirer in the mufti.
Rather more to the point, where is the Muslim
counterstatement to this? From the moderates,
you know.
If you lived in Syria would you speak out in favor of the anti-Ba'athist war? & , if you did, who'd take care of your widow & orphans?
Posted by: oj at March 28, 2003 12:11 PMAbout 99.5% of Muslims do not live in Syria.
Posted by: Harry Eagar at March 28, 2003 3:00 PM