Denial in the Islamic World
Charles Johnson
Thu Feb 23, 2006 at 3:08 pm PST • Views: 216
Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today blamed the attack on Iraq’s Askariya mosque on the US and Israel: Ahmadinejad: US, Israel attacked shrine. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Speaking to a crowd of thousands on tour of southwestern Iran, the president referred to the destruction of the Askariya mosque dome in Samarra on Wednesday, which the Iraqi government has blamed on insurgents.
“They invade the shrine and bomb there because they oppose God and justice,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to the US-led multinational force in Iraq.
“These passive activities are the acts of a group of defeated Zionists and occupiers who intended to hit our emotions,” the president said in a speech that was broadcast on state television.
Addressing the United States, he added: “You have to know that such an act will not save you from the anger of Muslim nations.”
This story also quotes a highly-placed Islamic cleric often labeled a “moderate” by mainstream media, Muslim Brotherhood front man Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi (lgf: search), who says the same thing as Ahmadinejad:
“We cannot imagine that the Iraqi Sunnis did this,” said the influential Sunni cleric Sheik Youssef al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian who lives in Qatar. “No one benefits from such acts other than the US occupation and the lurking Zionist enemy.”
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