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Muslim scholars meet to define terrorism and agree: Israel to blame
Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
Friday, January 11, 2002
ABU DHABI � Saudi Arabia, under pressure from the United States to
cooperate in the war against terrorism, has defined Islamic holy war
against Israel as legitimate self- defense.
The definition was formulated during a Saudi-sponsored seminar on
terrorism attended by Muslim scholars from the kingdom and abroad.
The seminar was held as part of a Saudi campaign to defend the
kingdom and other Islamic states from charges that they have
encouraged insurgencies in the West.
The Mecca seminar termed terrorism as "all acts of aggression unjustly committed by
individuals, groups or states against human beings." The Muslim scholars termed
Israeli aggression as the worst form of terrorism and jus
tified any retaliation against the Jewish state and its people. They said Israel and
Jewish communities abroad were responsible for anti-Islamic sentiment in the West in
the wake of the Sept. 11 suicide attacks in New Yor
k and Washington.
"This [attacks by Israel] is the most dangerous terrorism to world peace and security
and its confrontation is a just self-defense and jihad [holy war] in the way of
Allah." the seminar, sponsored by the Islamic Fiqh Acad
emy of the Muslim World League, said in a statement on Thursday. "Jihad is meant for
upholding right, ending injustice, ensuring peace and security and establishing mercy.
Terrorism and violence committed by the aggressor
who usurp the land, desecrate holy sanctuaries and loot wealth cannot be compared to
the practice the right of legitimate defense as used by the oppressed seeking to gain
their legitimate rights to self-determination."
Saudi officials have acknowledged that the United States has pressed the kingdom to
implement reforms that would delegitimize Islamic insurgency attacks. But the
officials said Riyad rejected any prospect of changing its
education curriculum that would undermine the stress on holy war.
"War does not necessarily mean military confrontation so much as spreading awareness
to counter destructive ideologies and eradicating causes of the phenomenon by working
seriously to find just solutions to international
crises," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said in an interview with the
London-based A- Sharq Al Awsat daily.
The Muslim scholars, completing a six-day conference, said terrorism also included
"any act of violence or threat designed to terrorize people or endanger their lives or
security" as well as damage to the environment. The
y said world conflict stems from the failure to solve the Palestinian problem.
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