Islamic clerics debate jihad and terrorism
Aug. 21, 2005 at 7:35AM
United Press International
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20050821-071400-3411r.htm
Islamic scholars Sunday began a two-day conference in the Egyptian Red
Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik to discuss the difference between jihad
and terrorism.
Sheikh Mohammad Tantawi, the head of the Cairo-based al-Azhar,
the world's highest Sunni religious authority, told clerics at the
opening of the meeting the difference between jihad and terrorism "is like
the difference between the earth and the sky."
He said that jihad (struggle) "is defending religion, while
terrorism is aggression and sedition...It is treason of which Islam is
innocent."
The conference was convened in Sharm el-Sheik to challenge a
series of bomb blasts in the resort city last July that killed nearly 90
people and injured more than 100 others.
Egypt's Islamic Affairs minister, Mahmoud Zakzouk complained that
some Muslims were seeking to "destroy the Islamic entity" by resorting
to violence.
He said the suicide bombers were "not martyrs but they are
committing crimes against themselves, against God, against others and
humanity."
Zakzouk described legitimate jihad as a "defensive war against
aggression and it can take place through finance, education and ideas,
not necessarily through fighting, because Islam did not come to declare
war on the world."
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Posted on 08/21/2005 2:37:08 PM EDT by ElisabethInCincy
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Could someone so kind post the posters on here from arutz......
Is this psalm 83 coming alive before our very eyes ?