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Tantawi cleric condones Iraqi 'resistance'
Egypt's highest authority in Sunni Islam has legitimised the "resistance" in Iraq on Friday and called on Iraqis to unite in order to return stability to the war-wracked country, state media has reported. "The Iraqi resistance has the right to defend its land, its fatherland and its right to independence," Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, resident imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar mosque, was quoted as saying by the Mena news agency. He also called on "all Iraqi communities to unite so as to make a serious commitment to restore stability in Iraq," Mena said. Sheikh Tantawi was speaking during the opening of a restored mosque in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.
He's declared which side he's on. All civilized people should assert their inalienable right to bump off enemies like him. The world's got enough deranged nutcakes that it won't be any worse off without him, and prob'ly a bit better.

Posted by: Fred 2004-12-04
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