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Egypt Foreign Affairs Council Says London Blasts Aim to Push Muslims into War

Posted on: Monday, 11 July 2005, 12:00 CDT

Text of report by Egyptian news agency MENA website

Cairo, 11 July: The Egyptian Council on Foreign Affairs warned, in a statement today of the ramifications of the assassination of the head of the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Iraq, Ihab al-Sharif and the explosions in London, saying that the perpetrators of those two crimes aimed to push the Muslim world into a religious war with non-Muslims.

The council linked between Al-Sharif's assassination and the attacks on the British capital London last week, saying that the perpetrators did them in the name of Islam, something that will increase confusion in the Western minds about Islam's tolerant, just and enlightened true nature.

The statement said that such acts were an extreme threat to the relations between countries and the internal cohesion of Arab societies themselves, where citizens of all religions live under the values of tolerance and acceptance.

The council called on institutions in the Muslim world and Egypt in particular to combat all these incidents with clear condemnation and work to explain the truth about Islam as a religion that shuns the killing of innocents and calls for a society of justice, freedom and equality. The council called in its statement for then end of the military occupation of Iraq and Palestine and the creation a mechanism suitable for peace, stability and reconstruction in the region and the world, considering that military occupation increases the forces of violence and extremism.

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

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