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Historic edict prohibiting internationalizing Quds Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem
4 June 2009
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Tens of Muslim scholars on Wednesday issued a religious edict prohibiting the internationalization of Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque and normalization of relations with Israel. Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, read out the edict at a press conference in occupied Jerusalem saying that the edict also calls for liberation of occupied Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque from Israeli occupation. He said that 53 scholars have signed the edict topped by Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradawi and Sheikh Salman Al-Oda along with tens others from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Turkey, Mauritania and other countries. The edict said that the liberation of Jerusalem, Aqsa and Palestine is a "religious duty" on all Muslims each according to his/her potentials and responsibility. Sheikh Salah explained that the edict entailed that any measure allowing Jews to control Jerusalem or judaize it through selling lands or homes or renting them to Jews was religiously not acceptable. Any political stands allowing Jews to control the Aqsa Mosque is prohibited and anyone adopting them would be betraying Allah, His Messenger and believers. Sheikh Salah then called for resisting any possible call by American president Barrack Obama to normalize Islamic relations with Israel at a time Israel was continuing its judaization of the lands and holy shrines in Jerusalem the West Bank and continue to besiege the Gaza Strip. Normalization of relations with Israel at a time it is committing crimes against the Palestinian people is prohibited, he said, adding that the edict also includes banning any attempt to give up the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees. He concluded saying that hundreds of Muslim scholars would sign the edict. For his part, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, the chairman of the higher Islamic authority and Khatib (preacher) of the Aqsa Mosque, declared his support for the edict. He said that those championing internationalization of Jerusalem do not realize the seriousness of this idea, adding that they would be stripping Arab and Muslim sovereignty in the holy city.
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