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Muslim Scholars Call for Intifada Support
LONDON, Aug 22 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Muslim citizens around the world were invited by 129 leading Muslim scholars to recognize Friday, August 24th, as a day to express their solidarity and support for the Palestinians through demonstrations and strikes in addition to supplicating to Allah and gathering funds for them.
In a statement issued by the scholars, of which copies were sent to news agencies around the world Tuesday, the scholars asked Arab leaders to respond to the wishes of their citizens and "not to deprive them from participating in the war of dignity".
They also asked Muslim leaders to activate the economic boycott with Israel and stop all forms of normalization with the Zionist state.
The scholars ensured that "in return for their continuous sacrifices, the Intifada [uprising] martyrs deserve so much from their Muslim nation since they are the ones struggling on behalf of the entire Muslim world to protect the holy sites from the Zionist enemy."
"Zionists are embarking on policies to manipulate the nation's right for existence and because of that, it is essential that the Muslims everywhere, governments, people and organizations, to realize the critical situation and deal with it seriously," the scholars added.
"The struggle today is tougher than it has ever been because it is the struggle of al-Aqsa against the Zionist illusions, that [are] not limited to Palestine," they added.
The statement also called on Palestinian leaders and organizations to hold onto resistance and preserve national unity, and not slip back into negotiations aimed to quell the Intifada.
The statement continued by saying that Palestinians should know that the only language Zionists understand is that of force, and they have no respect for treaties or accords.
The statement also accused Western countries, which claim they are protecting human rights, are merely watching Israeli atrocities committed daily against Palestinians and creating excuses for Israel.
Meanwhile, Palestinians, under siege in their cities, are enduring Israeli crimes and are defending their lands and holy sites.
The scholars ended their statement by calling on all Muslims around the world to have a dignified stance, which would please their God and their conscious in fear of a day when God will ask them what they have done to vindicate their Palestinian brothers.
Statement signatories included:
Yusuf Al Qaradawi, head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research
Sheikh Mustafa Mashhoor, General Supervisor for the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt
Judge Hussein Ahmad Head of the Islamic Society, Pakistan
Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General for Hezbollah, Lebanon
Mutee Al Rahman Nizami, Head of the Islamic Society, Bangladesh
Sheikh Abdel Salam Yassin, General Supervisor for the Adl and Ihsan Society, Morocco
Mohamad Ali Taskheri, Head of the Cultural and Islamic Relation Association, Iran
Sheikh Ahmad Yaseen, Founder of Hamas Resistance Movement, Palestine
Abdallah Ali Al Mutawa , Head of Social Reform Society, Kuwait
Abdullah bin Hussein Al Ahmar, Head of the Supreme Council of the Congregation of Reform, Yemen
Sheikh Faysal Maulawi, Secretary General for the Islamic Society, Lebanon
Abdel Majeed Al Zunaybat, General Supervisor for the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan
Al Sadek Abdel Majid, General Supervisor for the Muslim Brotherhood, Sudan
Ali Sadr Al Deen Al Baynoni, General Supervisor for the Muslim Brotherhood, Syria
Mahfouz Al Nahnah, Head of Peace Society Movement, Algeria
Rashid Al Ghanushi, Head of the Islamic Renaissance Movement, Tunis
Fadel Noor, Head of the Islamic Party, Malaysia
Ussama Al Takriti, Head of the Islamic Party, Iraq
Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, Under Secretary for Islamic Jihad Movement, Palestine
Abdellatif Arbyat, Under Secretary for Islamic Labor Front Party, Jordan
Abdul Rashid Turabi, Head of the Islamic Society, Kashmir
Mohammad Hedayet Noor Wahid, Head of the Justice Party, Indonesia
Abdel Karim Khattib, Head of the Justice and Development Party, Morocco
Sheikh Hamed Al Betawi, Head of the Palestinian Scholars Society, Palestine
Rashid Al Haj, Head of the Islamic Society, Sri Lanka
Ahmad Al Raysooni, Head of the Tawhid and Reform Movement, Morocco
Sayed Omar, Under Secretary of Renaissance Party, Tajikstan
Sheikh Mohamad Bahr Al Eloom, Head of the Ahl Al Bayt Center, Iran
Ahmad Al Rawi, Head of the Islamic Organization Union in Europe
Sheikh Amin Bam, Under Secretary of the South African Scholar Society
Sheikh Raed Salah, Head of the Islamic Movement in 1948 Occupied Palestine
Sheikh Ahmad Al Bayli, Head of the Scholar Committee, Sudan
Abderab Al Rasul Sayaf, Head of the Islamic Unity, Afghanistan
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