Thursday January 7, 2010
Talabani demands an end to discrimination and calls for Tantawi rejects opinions of atonement
بغداد - القاهرة - الصباح Baghdad - Cairo - Al-Sabah
Surged in the past few hours, the feelings of denunciations and condemnation of the abuse that had been issued by a Saudi cleric against the religious authority, the Supreme Ali al-Sistani, surpassing the barrier of caste and the border.
As stressed Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, that the opinions and inflammatory incitements to completed with Islam and that Islam is innocent of them, denounced the theologians in abuse of religious symbols, and called for Islamic unity to confront the advocates of segregation, at a time in which he called President Jalal Talabani, the Saudi monarch King Abdullah Bin Abdel-Aziz to stop the calls for divisions among Muslims.
Talabani said in his letter to King Abdullah: The waiver of Mr. Ali Al-Sistani is the abuse to all Iraqis is a destructive element and to undermine the Islamic brotherhood.
The President declined strongly insulting to Mr. Ali al-Sistani, returned it as "a symbol and example to call for tolerance, harmony and brotherhood, and has played a critical role in extinguishing the fires of tribulations that you try to fueling the forces of evil in the country.
For his part, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi said the abuses by some of the Friday Prayer in Saudi Arabia does not serve the unity of Muslims and the sanctity of blood Atson, calling on Saudi Arabia to intervene to contain the strife and prevent the recurrence of such abuses.
It is said that the remarks fired by Saudi cleric Mohammad Arifi against religious authority, Mr. Ali Al-Sistani has given rise to severe condemnation and denunciation.
In Cairo, Sheikh Tantawi said in a statement to correspondent "morning" Isra-Khalifa in Cairo, said the neighboring countries not to harm Iraq in any form, whether fatwas or other.
Mohammed Sayed Tantawi said in reaction to issuing fatwas of satisfaction and abuse of religious symbols: "We are always with a middle man that does not interfere to each other, not ungrateful and imams to apply Islamic law, as commanded by the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) does not come verdicts contrary to Islam, which is a religion love and brotherhood, cooperation and love, tolerance and other qualities that hurry, by God, stressing that these opinions were not relevant to Islam. In Riyadh, he stressed, Sheikh Abdul Mohsen al Obeikan world legal adviser in the Saudi Royal Court, that "what he said Arifi not represent the view Government of Saudi Arabia, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and is always trying to renounce the differences between Muslims and unifying the floor, and left extremism in all its forms that run through a row of the nation ", stressing that" the view out the Arifi is totally unacceptable.
