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Islamic scholar Qaradawi tells Kurds to
help end Iraq strife
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January 27, 2007
Islamic scholar Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi yesterday
called upon Kurdish leaders in Iraq to mediate
between Sunnis and Shias, saying that the spiralling
sectarian strife in Iraq could spill over to other
countries and undermine the unity of the Islamic
world.
Qaradawi said Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and
Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region
(Iraq), should mediate an end to the sectarian
violence.
"Our Kurd brethren should play a reconciliatory role
between Sunnis and Shias. Kurds are currently more
influential in Iraq. They have the presidency and
the foreign ministry. They should intervene between
the two sides. The neutrality of Kurds is
unacceptable in this regard," he said.
Qaradawi said Kurds should also fight the side
rejecting their mediation. |
Islamic scholar Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi |
"In case their mediation is refused, they are
entitled to fight the side rejecting it," he said,
while observing that Sunnis are not expected to
refuse such mediation because they are the ones
suffering the highest death toll.
"Sunnis are deported from Baghdad and Basra. Their
bodies are found headless in streets. Everyone with
the name Omar or Othman is being killed by the death
squads," he said.
The scholar, who is the head of the International
Union of Islamic Scholars, also said that the IUMS
has sent a delegate to Iran to hold talks with
officials about what Tehran can do to help end the
sectarian bloodshed.
"I have repeatedly called upon Iran to use its
influence in Iraq to help end the escalating
sectarian strife. Iran holds the key to stop the
bloodshed in Iraq. I have been accused several times
of instigating people against Iran, while this is
untrue. I am only worried about the unity of Muslims
and want to caution them against schemes to cause
fragmentation," he said.
He also criticised the leaders of Muslim countries
who, he said, stand by while Sunnis in Iraq are
being eliminated by death squads.
"I have recently visited Indonesia and called on the
country to play a pivotal role in mediating an end
to the sectarian strife in Iraq. I appealed to the
Indonesian president to talk to Iran and urge it to
step in to stop the daily bloodbaths in Iraq," he
said.
He warned against an all-out war breaking out in the
whole Islamic world if Muslim countries did not take
the required measures to put an urgent end to
sectarian violence in Iraq.
He hailed the recent Doha conference for Dialogue of
Islamic Schools of Thought as an opportunity for
transparency between the main Islamic sects.
"I have stressed in my speech in the conference that
transparency between Sunni and Shia scholars is a
must. Shia clerics should condemn the sectarian
violence as we did," he said, while observing that
Sunni scholars have condemned the atrocities
reportedly carried out by the forces of slain
militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi against Shias in Iraq.
gulf-times com
* - Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an Islamic scholar
with weekly programs on Al-Jazeera TV, his view
almost supports 'Jeehad',
radical Muslims and Al-Qaeda Islamic terrorist group
and the holy Islamic war against the west.
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