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February 18, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7895485.stm

Muslim Clerics Meet in Turkey, Urge New Jihad Against Israel over Gaza

[BBC News] Bill Law - At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met with senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad against Israel centered on Gaza. The choice of Turkey was significant. As one organizer put it: "During the past 100 years relations have been strained but Palestine has brought us together." Many delegates spoke appreciatively of the protest by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the conference, dubbed the Global Anti-Aggression Campaign, Saudi religious scholar Mohsen al-Awajy and other delegates repeatedly referred to the Gaza war as "a victory." "Gaza gives us power, it solves our differences. We are all now in a unified front against Zionism," he said.

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