Conferences
The Organization of Islamic Unity in Mecca: Among attending heads of state is Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who included in his delegation Sheikh Abdel Majid Zandani, who is wanted by the U.S. administration on suspicion of financing terrorism.
Zandani, head of the Islamic Iman (faith) University, traveled out of Yemen for the first time since he was included in an international list of terrorism financiers by the U.N. Security Council last February.
Also the 4th annual al-Quds Conference was recently held in Sanaa.
7/12/2005 al Sahwa:
The leaders of resistance in Palestine
and Iraq renewed their intent to continue their legal
struggle against the occupation forces.
Khaled Mashal, chair of the political office of Hamas,
…renewed his pledge to continue resistance as a
strategic choice to conquer occupation. He reviewed
challenges that Arab and Islamic Umah faces at all
levels and the pressure that America practices on Arab
and Islamic nations and leaders to impose its
dominance in the region and to support Zionist entity….
Hussein Hadrooj, member of the political office of the
Lebanese Hezbullah, called upon resistance movements
to carry their responsibility towards people and to
consider the dangers around….
Chairman of the Muslim Scholars Association in Iraq
Hareth al-Dhari…also confirmed before the students
rally the adherence to the constructive resistance
choice in order to thoroughly crush occupation forces
that constantly kill and oppress Iraqi people.
al-Qaradawi also in attendence per Saba:
The Chief of Trustless Council of al-Quds foundation Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said that the Sana’a conference of the foundationwas fruitful and came out with positive results. Upon his departure, Sheikh al-Qaradawi said that the donations reached about $ 4 millions for supporting the activities of the foundation.
Qaradawi (Aug 2005): “It is a duty. All scholars say that defending an occupied homeland is an individual duty applying to every Muslim. Reducing this duty to a ‘right,’ which can be relinquished, is a kind of depreciation….“This has nothing to do with suicide. This man does not want to commit suicide, but rather to cause great damage to the enemy, and this is the only method he can use to cause such damage…The truth is that we should refrain from raising this issue, because doubting it is like joining the Zionists and Americans in condemning our brothers in Hamas, the Jihad, the Islamic factions, and the resistance factions in Iraq. It is as if we are joining them.”
So to discuss even the legitimacy of suicide bombing is traitorous.
