Jordan, Turkey refuse to link between Islam and violence

Jordan and Turkey refused to make a link between Islam and Violence while Australia and the US stressed that Muslims are not the target in the campaign against terrorism.

News reports quoted the spokesman for the US state department Richard Boucher as saying that the Jordanian King Abdullah II expressed during talks held on Thursday evening with the US secretary of state Colin Powell the sympathy of Arabs and Muslims with the US following the crisis and rejecting of comparing between Islam and terrorism.

Boucher explained that similar talks were held in Washington between Powell and each of the foreign ministers of Turkey and Australia to learn about the US plans to chase Usama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and their assertions that the Muslims are not the target in the campaign against terrorism.