A Yemeni cleric who is on the US terror list has agreed to conduct conditional dialogue between the US administration and Islamic movements. Shaikh Abdul Majeed Al Zandani, chairman of the Shura Council of the largest Islamic Party (Islah), and founder and chairman of the Al Eyman university set three conditions for successful dialogue with America. âGovernments must be briefed on what is going in the dialogue, to prevent any misunderstanding, causing accusations of being agents. The dialogue must be highly transparent and obvious so people know what is going on. The opinion of religious scholars should be the main components of the dialogue,â Al Zandani said in his newspaper, Sawt Al Eyman.However Al Zandani, who is on the US terror list charged with financing Al Qaida and the Taliban, said the three conditions did not represent his partyâs vision but was deduced from the Holy Quran and Sunna. âWhat I said is not the vision of Islah, but the opinion which is supported by the Quran and Sunna,â he said. Regarding the third condition he said: âI mean the concerned religious scholars will clarify what is ambiguous and determine the possible and the impossible. It is politics that has no mercy, that does not know values.â
âThe call for dialogue with Islamists by the West is only a tactic to strike Islamists by Islamists,â said Shaikh Mohammad Mughales, a senior Islah member in a previously held symposium on this issue. âThey divide Islamists into two groups, moderate and extremists, they want to strike the moderates by the extremists, on the one hand, and they want to strike Islamists by the rulers on the other,â Mughales added.