AZERBAIJANIS BURN BUSH EFFIGY, US, ISRAEL AND UK FLAGS

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Oct 5 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / Ò corr I. Alizaeh / A group of residents of Baku’s
Nardaran and Sabunchu settlements held a protest action in the Imam
Hussein Square on 5 October as a response to the International Day
of Jerusalem. Their slogans were anti-US and anti-Israel.

The US and Israel are responsible for all the problems Muslims are
facing around the world, Haji Alikram Aliyev, an elderly man of
Nardaran and former Chairman of the Azerbaijan Islam Party, said. "
Israel’s Zionism torments all Muslims," he said.

The US has been occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and an end should be
put to it as soon as possible, another elderly man of the settlement,
Haji Hajiagha Nuriyev, urged. According to him, Azerbaijan’s sending
its peacekeeping forces to Afghanistan and Iraq is a mistaken policy.

The US wants to divide Iraq into three parts – Sunnis, Shiites, and
Kurds. The West occupies those countries the same way Nagorno-Karabakh
is occupies and they want to tear those lands off Azerbaijan.

According to the protest’s participants, Shiism (one of two major sects
of Islam, recognizes only the Holy Koran rejecting any supplements)
is oppressed in Azerbaijan. The protestors voiced slogans in favour
of Iran. An effigy of US President Bush, as well as American, Israeli,
and British flags were burnt.

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