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Queen Noor Appeals to Muslim Moderates
Queen Noor of Jordan is urging Muslim moderates to speak out against the "ranting" of extremists who use Islam to justify beheadings and suicide bombings against the United States and Westerners. The American-born widow of King Hussein, who perhaps more than any other prominent figure represents a fusion of the United States and the Arab world, also told The Associated Press in an interview that Washington should tone down its militaristic approach to the Middle East. Noor denounced the twisting of Islam preached by extremists, who are waging what they say is a holy war against the West. "What I believe are the vast majority of moderate Muslim clerics ... do not at all subscribe to the distorted ranting of these militant extremist groups and abhor the form that their zealotry has taken in terms of beheadings and suicide bombings and the killings of innocents, because these are forbidden in Islam," the queen said Sunday in her hotel suite in Bogota, where she is campaigning against land mines.Posted by: Fred 2004-10-25 |
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