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Egyptian Cleric Suspended Over Iraq Edict
Arab News, Agence France Presse
CAIRO, 29 August 2003 — The Egyptian government-appointed head of Islam’s highest seat of learning yesterday suspended a senior cleric who had called on Muslim states to boycott Iraq’s US-appointed governing council.
Al-Azhar chief Sheikh Mohamad Sayyed Tantawi said Egyptian cleric Sheikh Nabawi Mohamad Al-Ish “does not represent Al-Azhar.” “No Egyptian cleric has the right to pass verdict on the affairs of another country,” Tantawi said in a statement carried by the official MENA news agency. “I cannot overstep the Iraqi sheikhs and proclaim fatwas (religious edicts) on matters that concern them. Iraqi ulema (clerics) have to pronounce their opinion on this matter as they are more familiar with their own affairs.”
The Egyptian cleric had sparked a storm on Wednesday by telling the Cairo opposition daily Al-Wafd that Iraq’s governing council “has no legitimacy” and that “Arab and Muslim states should not deal with it.”
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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