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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (5131)	2/25/2007 2:56:10 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Jordan queen urges Muslims to reject extremism Yahoo!News ^ \| February 25, 2007 news.yahoo.com JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - Jordan's Queen Rania on Sunday said Muslims must recognise that much of the terror in recent years has been committed in the name of Islam if they want to be taken seriously by the West. "We are right to deplore Islamophobia and the branding of Muslims as terrorists," she told an annual economic forum in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah. "But we must face up to the horrible truth that many of the worst terrorist attacks in recent years have been committed by people who claim to be acting in the name of Islam," she said. "We are right to question Western governments when their actions only make it easier for radicals to recruit new followers. But our moral authority depends on our willingness to reject the voices of extremism and violence in our midst," Rania said. "It is hard to insist the West should embrace us as neighbours in the global village when across the Muslim world we are at war with ourselves, brother against brother -- in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan," she added. The Jordanian queen, whose husband King Abdullah II is a close US ally, was the keynote speaker Sunday at the Jeddah Economic Forum, an annual gathering of business and political leaders billed by organisers as the Middle East's think tank. Like other VIP guests in Saudi Arabia, she was exempted from wearing the long black abaya which is required for Saudi and foreign women in the conservative Muslim kingdom. However, a dark glass-screen separated male and female delegates attending the forum in the same hall.