Attack On Iraq Is War On Islam

7am.Com News ^ | 12:41 am PST, 24 February 2003 | 7am News

[Bobby777]

Malaysia's Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has opened a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement with a scathing attack on the West, calling the U.S.-led war on terrorism a pretext for an attempt to dominate the world.

Mr. Mahathir told leaders and ministers from 114 non-aligned nations gathered in Kuala Lumpur today that "no single nation should be allowed to police the world."

The Malaysian leader says war is a "primitive" way of settling disputes between nations and should be outlawed, adding that the United Nations should be the arbiter of all international disputes and take the lead in disarming the entire world.

Mr. Mahathir's remarks set the tone for the Kuala Lumpur summit. The two-day meeting of developing nations will approve a resolution urging Baghdad to disarm, but it also will oppose any U.S. action against Iraq without the support of the United Nations. The statement warns that war in Iraq could destabilize the entire Middle East region.

Earlier, Mr. Mahathir said an attack on Iraq would be regarded as a war against Muslims, not against terrorism. The prime minister said that perception was strengthened by what he described as mild Western reaction to North Korea's rejection of nuclear safeguards, compared with the hard-line U.S. policy on Iraq.

Senior diplomats at the summit plan to resume talks about North Korea today, after efforts to reach a consensus reportedly broke down during ministerial meetings yesterday. Diplomats are trying to agree on the wording of an appeal to North Korea to reconsider its withdrawal from the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The Non-Aligned Movement, founded more than 40 years ago, represents two-thirds of the world's nations and more than half its population.

[Bobby777]

NOTE: 7am.Com tends to move articles often. I have this on a news page on my website that is powered by 7am.Com.

I wonder if any of these complainers had any sympathy on 9/11/2001? ... I highly doubt it ...

[ezo4]

Yep ...sucks to be them

[Uncle Miltie]

"the U.S.-led war on terrorism (is) a pretext for an attempt to dominate the world."

Against us alert.

[weegee]

The Malaysian leader says war is a "primitive" way of settling disputes between nations and should be outlawed, adding that the United Nations should be the arbiter of all international disputes and take the lead in disarming the entire world.

Iraq's weapons' program was very restricted after the peace settlement from Gulf War I yet Saddam did not hold to his agreement. The UN sent inspectors in and he kicked them out.

The United Nations does not seem interested in actually enforcing the Saddam's weapons ban. Doesn't sound like a good idea to make them the "arbiter" of all international disputes. Was Kosovo an international dispute or an international intervention?

If all nations destroy their weapons, then only outlaw nations will have weapons. Nice try. Same as the "ban guns" crowd.

[xzins]

Here is a supporting bit of information

A Critical History of Islam, click

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

[I found something that might reveal a bit about Malasia.]

Media Statement
by Lim Kit Siang

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(Penang, Thursday): DAP leaders will meet the United States Charge d’affaires Robert A. Pollard at the United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow over the US Immigration blacklisting of Malaysia as one of the 15 “terrorist-risk” countries from October 1, from which date “visiting aliens” to the United States who had travelled to these countries would be subject to special screening, like being finger-printed, photographed and tracked, “if they can’t credibly explain their trips there”.

On Tuesday, DAP asked for an urgent meeting with the US Ambassador, Marie Huhtala to protest over Malaysia being blacklisted in the expanded list of 15 “terrorist-risk” states, which will not only cause grave inconvenience and hardships to Malaysians travelling in the United States but also highly detrimental to Malaysia’s international image and attractiveness as a safe investment destination.

DAP leaders will meet with Pollard as the Charge d’affaires of the United States Embassy as Marie Huhtala is overseas and will not return until next month and will discuss three inter-related subjects:

The blacklisting of Malaysia from Oct. 1 as one of the 15 “terrorist-risk” states under the new ruling made in early September by US Attorney-General John Ashcroft, whereby visitors from these countries could be finger-printed, photographed and tracked like common criminals in the United States by the US immigration authorities;
The problem faced by some 5,000 bona fide Malaysians after months of waiting in getting approvals for visa to study, work or vacation in the United States; and
The reasons for the US branding of Malaysia as a terrorist state, such as by naming Malaysia as one of the 15 “terrorist-risk” states from October 1, despite the protest by the Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to United States Vice President Dick Cheney when they met in Washington last week that Malaysia does not like to be branded as a terrorist state or as having links with terrorists especially in view of the Malaysian government’s “firm stand against terrorism and terrorists”.
DAP had protested strongly when two months after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington last year, Malaysia was included in the list of 26 countries with large Muslim populations and judged by the Bush Administration as presenting terrorism concerns, subjecting them to tight visa review process where all men, Muslim and non-Muslim, age 16 to 45 would have to complete a detailed questionnaire to be studied in Washington by a terrorist task force.

Besides Malaysia, countries affected by the new rules were Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Although the Bush Administration had promised at the time that it would take 20 days for such visa applications to be cleared by the Washington terrorist task force, there was recently a backlog of some 10,000 applications some of which had been outstanding for more than six months.

Malaysia had suffered the worst as well over 5,000 of this 10,000 backlog were from Malaysians, including Malaysian Chinese and Indian students from prestigious universities such as Harvard, Yale and MIT. Although the State Department claimed two days ago that this 10,000 backlog had been cleared by “automation and other improvements in procedure”, it had not explained how such a backlog could take place with many foreign students who went home for the summer vacation unable to get back to the United States in time for the new academic year.

The interminable delays for bona fide visitors to the United States, in particular for study, are most short-sighted, especially as the failure to halt the September 11 attacks was the result of US intelligence failure of unprecedented magnitude and not visa processing.

Now, Malaysia is to be the object of further selective discrimination, “graduating” from the blacklist of 26 countries where visa applications are subject to tight “terrorist’ screening into a more select blacklist of 15 “terrorist-risk” countries in the company of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Somalia, Pakistan and Indonesia.

From the new “short-blacklist”, it would appear that countries like Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had passed the test of the United States Justice Department and are not included in the “terrorist-risk” states, unlike Malaysia.

DAP leaders would like to find out from the US Embassy how these countries passed the test, while Malaysia failed and is now lumped in the new blacklist of 15 “terrorist-risk” states - whether it is connected with the “929 Declaration” by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad on September 29 last year that Malaysia is an Islamic State and the escalating UMNO-PAS competition to out-Islam and out-Islamic State each other in disregard of the 1957 Merdeka Constitution, the social contract and the 1963 Malaysia Agreement that Malaysia is a democratic, secular and multi-religious nation with Islam as the official religion but Malaysia is not an Islamic State, whether UMNO Islamic State or PAS Islamic State.

(26/9/2002)

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*Lim Kit Siang - DAP National Chairman

[Rudder]

Mr. Mahathir said an attack on Iraq would be regarded as a war against Muslims...

Not an entirely bad idea.

[AFPhys]

well, it wouldn't be the first time war was banned. i think there was just exactly that type of "treaty" passed in the 1920's, and that got us the largest war ever.

[tet68]

The Malaysian leader says war is a "primitive" way of settling disputes between nations and should be outlawed, adding that the United Nations should be the arbiter of all international disputes and take the lead in disarming the entire world.

For an Islamic to endorse the UN means that they feel it is the vehicle to use to achieve a world Islamic state.

[Enduring Freedom]

90%+ of the world's conflicts involve radical Muslims, and we are about to admit it?

Finally, some rationality in the world.

Let's Roll!

[tm22721]

the U.S.-led war on terrorism a pretext for an attempt to dominate the world.

We already dominate the world.

Now we must make them grovel.

BUMP

[Jumper]

He must be either a dictator or communist, for those voted into office normally exhibit more diplomatic skill when addressing the "masses", in this 114 nonaligned nations....

[Check6]

"...said an attack on Iraq would be regarded as a war against Muslims...."

No problem. Let's go.

[TFMcGuire]

a pretext for an attempt to dominate the world.

Interesting, coming from a Moslem.

Yes. it is war. At best idealogical; worse, militarily; worst of all when Islam can perforce impose its black will on conquered peoples without possibility of redress.

Ishmael has set his hand against all the world, not, vice-versa.

[arthurus]

Attack On Iraq Is War On Islam

It is an attack on an enemy of the US. If that enemy turns out to be Islam then, well, yes, It is.

[ClearCase_guy]

And really, we were attacked first. Is an attack on America an attack on Christianity? You might say that we are a secular society -- but so is Iraq, really. But if we do want to couch this event in terms of Wars of Religion, it is very clear that the Religion of Islam (Religion of Peace) attacked us first and initiated a War against Christianity.

Time to scrape the scum off the pond.

[American in Israel]

Mahathir Mohamad, told leaders and ministers from 114 non-aligned nations gathered in Kuala Lumpur today that "no single nation should be allowed to police the world."

I would like to ask him if the Empire of Islam is more what he has in mind.

[wgeorge2001]

"The Malaysian leader says war is a "primitive" way of settling disputes between nations and should be outlawed, adding that the United Nations should be the arbiter of all international disputes and take the lead in disarming the entire world. "


Another liar and fool. The appeasers world wide are wolve's in sheep's clothing and plan to make a substantial sum of money and grab of power if foolish Americans let them.

[Free the USA]

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[MHGinTN]

Attack On Iraq Is War On Islam Totalitarian Tumor Growing at the heart of Islam