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Darfur Blacks Are Better Off Dead Than Christianized
From Pakistan TodayA prominent Islamic scholar on Friday described Western relief efforts in Darfur as attempts to "Christianise" people in the conflict-torn western region of Sudan. Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric with a large following in the Islamic world, also accused the West of plotting to control Sudan, like it has done in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories, by raising the spectre of Islamic terrorism. Al-Qaradawi, who lives in Qatar, arrived in Sudan late Thursday to meet government officials and rebels involved in the 19-month Darfur conflict, which has killed an estimated 30,000 and driven more than 1 million from their homes. "Sudan has become involved in a plot against the Islamic nation, which is the same plot woven against the nation in Afghanistan, in Iraq (and) in Palestine," al-Qaradawi claimed during a Friday mosque sermon in Khartoum broadcast on state-run TV. .... The cleric also accused the Bush administration of "seeking to create a new domesticated Islam that knows not to say no." .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-11 |
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