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British Muslims warn of 'conflict for generations'
(Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian, January 14, 2003)
Britain's biggest Muslim organisation yesterday warned Tony Blair that war with Iraq would cause community relations to deteriorate and breed "bitterness and conflict for generations to come". . . . "It is generally believed the real American objective behind such an invasion is to change the political map of the Middle East, appropriate its oil wealth and appoint Israel as a regional superpower exercising total hegemony over the entire Middle East and beyond," he [Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain] wrote. . . . Seven out of 10 British Muslims believe the war on terror is a war on Islam, according to an ICM poll published last month. . . . Mr Sacranie said he did not believe there should be war even if Iraq was found to possess weapons of mass destruction. . . . "If WMD are being got rid of, all countries have to get rid of them, and war is not the way to go about this. . . . "If we are talking about the region, Israel has chemical, biological and nuclear weapons."

posted by LoZo 5:17 PM