American and Israeli tourists should avoid Islamic countries in the wake of the latest terrorist attacks, a leading Kenyan Islamic cleric warned yesterday. "There is an undeclared war between their countries and the Muslim world," said Sheikh Ali Shee, chairman of the Council of Imams. "It is not good for them to come until the [Palestinian] problem is solved."
This comes as a surprise to someone? The surprise is that Kenya has become an Islamic country. Oh, and it is a declared war. Binny declared war on us. We just didn't take it seriously at the time...
Sheikh Shee is a controversial figure. On Friday a French newsletter, Intelligence Online, said it "seemed impossible" that last week's Paradise Hotel and Israeli airliner attacks could have happened without his support. But he hotly denied the allegation. "We have nothing to do with al-Qa'ida and we have nothing to do with those bombs," he said. "We are condemning them very clearly."
Just like Abubakr Bashir...
But the sheikh, sitting under a fan in his side-street office in a neatly pressed white robe, said Israeli and US policy towards Palestine should also be described as "terrorism". And he would refuse to help investigators from the FBI or Mossad, Israel's spy agency. "We will never co-operate with these people," he said. "They are criminals. This Bush is the worst leader ever. He is a man of war."
Unlike Islamic clerics, who are men of p... p... I can't even type the word in the same sentence. |