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From: zix@cs.nott.ac.uk (Zafer Iqbal)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Muslim View on Middle East conflict
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.020747.2112@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 02:07:47 GMT
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>According to Islam, what Sadam has done is correct. Borders between 2 Muslim
>countries should not exist!!! Islam requires unification of Muslim countries
>that the Uthmaniyah state was divided into so many smaller states that we know
>today!

Saddam has started using Islamic rhetoric only to gain Moslems' sympathy for 
his own devious purposes.  A person who has killed many of the ulema (Islamic
scholars) in his own country cannot be considered a representative of Islam.
He is moved by greed, not by Islam.  His country is one of the most secular 
states in the Arab world.

Would a true Moslem burn down to ground 500 Kurdish villages, killing innocent
women and children?  Weren't those Kurds Moslems too?

Unity for Moslems is an excellent goal towards which all of us should strive 
for.  But Saddam is clearly not moved by such Islamic motives.  I doubt that
Moslems can achieve unity by declaring war on one another.  The Quran prohibits
war against Moslems (unless its for stopping the party committing the act
of aggression).

>Secondly it is haram to have to rely on kufr for the defence of Muslims!!!
>The Saudi puppet regime should have been overthrown long ago as should most of
>the existing puppet regimes (including Sadam!). 

Of course, the un-Islamic actions of the Saudi puppets don't justify the 
the even more evil actions of Saddam.

>Zaf

Behnam Sadeghi