Islamic scholar denounces parcelling out of Muslim countries

Chairman of the Denmark's Islamic league, Mohamed Fouad Al Barazi, denounced attempts to parcel some Arab and Islamic countries, including Morocco, Sudan and Iraq.

The Syrian-born theologian who was talking at the 16th annual meeting of the Islamic cultural center of Wuppertal, (region of Dusseldorf) said the self-determination principle should be applied to peoples under foreign colonial domination, as is the case for the Palestinian and Irish peoples whose calls for self-determination are legitimate.

The theologian who calls "illegitimate" claims of self-rule by a group of individuals from a city or a region of a country, concluded that the attempts to divide the Sahara from Morocco are doomed to failure. The Sahara is, and will remain, Moroccan, despite anti-Moroccan plots, he insisted.

The Islamic cultural center's annual meeting was held by the Islamic association of Wuppertal which invites every year Islamic theologians from Europe and the Muslim world.