Saturday, February 14, 2004

WELL DONE!

Finally...a story about someone related to one of the countless "Muslim Clerics" standing up for what is right.
A top aide to Iraq's most influential Muslim cleric ripped the al-Jazeera news agency Friday and called for its expulsion from his country.

Imam Jalal al-Din al-Saghir said that al-Jazeera was trying to spark a civil war between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Iraq, al-Jazeera reported.

"Al-Jazeera lies, and it creates divisions between people," he said at the Aatafiya mosque in central Baghdad. Al-Saghir is seen as close to Iraq's highest Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani.

Speaking during a well-attended sermon, al-Saghir urged the Iraqi Governing Council to close permanently the Qatar-based satellite channel's Baghdad bureau.

Specifically, al-Saghir slammed television presenter Faisal al-Qassam for trying to create sectarian divisions and supporting Saddam Hussein.

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