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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (19774)	3/12/2003 1:27:29 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The market continues its precipitous slide to oblivion.

To: Just_Observing who wrote (19774)	3/12/2003 1:28:26 PM
From: Just_Observing	Respond to of 25898

Scholars Urge Jihad In Event of Iraq War Cairo Center Declares All Muslims Threatened By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, March 11, 2003; Page A12 AMMAN, Jordan, March 10 -- Islamic scholars at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the preeminent seat of Sunni Muslim learning in the Arab world, have declared a U.S. attack on Iraq would threaten all Arabs and Muslims and urged a jihad to defend their interests. The statement, published in Egyptian newspapers today, said the U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf region in preparation for a likely invasion of Iraq is part of a new "crusade," a highly emotive word in the Arab world, where the medieval Crusades still frame relations with the West. "According to Islamic law, if the enemy steps on Muslims' land, jihad becomes a duty on every male and female Muslim," said the statement by the Islamic Research Academy, the center of religious scholarship at the 1,000-year-old university. It calls upon "Arabs and Muslims throughout the world to be ready to defend themselves and their faith." washingtonpost.com