Muslims Use Day of Prayer to Protest

[ECH1969]

Thousands across the Muslim world used Friday's Islamic day of prayer to protest Israel's attacks on Hezbollah, urging Sunni-Shiite unity to defeat the Jewish state.

Waving posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, thousands gathered after Friday prayers at Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, the most prominent Sunni Muslim institution in the Arab world.

"Sunnis or Shiites (there is) no difference; all together to resist the enemy," Sameh Ashour, head of the Arab Lawyers Union, told the crowd. "Resistance is the solution."

In Iraq, radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr predicted Israel would collapse like the World Trade Center if Sunnis and Shiites join together to fight.

http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/feeds/ap/2006/07/21/ap2896071.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. and any small voice for peace and tolerance is drowned out

by those who only want war.

Meanwhile, in Russia, Jews and Muslims work together for understanding.

[Igel]

2. Such tribalism.

Downright medieval.

However, I love all the very prominent clerics, institutions, and mosques. Probably the same stuff put out over the state-run Friday afternoon sermon-broadcasts. The usual assortment of suspects using their well-oiled machine.