Al-Rai al-Aam: Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh says it is forbidden to assist attacks on Iraq

Al-Azhar Grand Mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Sayed Tantawi, has announced that it is forbidden for any Muslim country to utilize its lands for the US or others to attack Iraq, or to facilitate aggression against a Muslim people.

In a statement to the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Aam issued on Sunday, Sheikh Tantawi said "we are against that Iraq's children, women and the elderly are attacked," because the Iraqi people are part of us and we are part of it," rejecting repression and aggression against any Arab or Islamic state whatsoever.