West told to ‘cease meddling in Muslim world’
Tony Hotland and Muhammad Nafik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
* with thanks to Weasel Zippers

Islamic scholars blamed protracted conflicts in the Islamic world on Western countries and incessant disunity among Muslim nations.
The West’s perpetual interference in many Muslim states has resulted in enduring domestic strife within them, they said Thursday on the sidelines of the third International Conference of Islamic Scholars (ICIS) in Jakarta.
The scholars urged Western nations to change the pattern of their relations with Islam in order to end the widespread conflicts. (Does that mean give more money or stop the money?)
The three-day international conference, attended by some 300 Muslim scholars from 65 countries, is hosted by Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) — Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization — and will end Friday after the adoption of several key recommendations.
“The main cause for the chaos we see in Muslim countries is the external factor — the Western interference. In the 19th century, they exploited and made Muslims backward,” senior Iranian Muslim scholar Mohammad Ali Taskhiri said at a news conference.
(Hmm, no mention about the jihad, Islamic conquest and occupation of Christian & Jewish lands, Muslim raids on infidels over 1400 years and the more than 30 relentless jihad wars worldwide?)
“Western countries chose to stay put even when we gained independence, meddling in our economic and domestic affairs because they wanted to maintain their presence and exploit our natural resources.” (Really? Muslims don’t exploit their natural resources?)
Taskhiri pointed out Iran’s nuclear program as an example, saying Western countries continued obstructing its efforts to develop the technology for peaceful purposes. (who says they want nukes for ‘peaceful purposes? Ahmad-in-jihad?’)
Said Sulaiman Hassan Qeeeq from Palestine and Ali Mahmoud Hassan from Somalia shared Taskhiri’s views, saying foreign intervention rendered the Muslim world powerless to stop internal conflicts. (‘stop conflicts by wiping out the existing kuffars?’ Translation: resistance from infidels to the spread of Islam makes it harder for us to make the world Islamic..’)
Hassan Qeeeq said the ongoing hostility between Palestine and Israel was not a conflict of religions but rather one between “the colonized and the colonizers”, who were supported by Western powers. (Sure. Continued presence in Israel by Jews over 3500 years makes Jews ‘colonizers’)

“Islam teaches its followers to live peacefully with non-Muslims. So it’s a question of occupation by these powers, not a question of Islam and the Jews,” he said.
* Â Yep. ‘Peaceful’ like here:

Beheadings of Christian schoolgirls by pious Muslims
Update:
* Â Indonesia: Hundreds of Muslim Attack Bible School With Machetes, Sharpened Bamboo Sticks and Acid…..

* Â Â Christians, Jews praying on Temple Mount ‘seek religious war’
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