BAKU: Azeri cleric lashes out against western policy on Islam

Azeri cleric lashes out against western policy on Islam

Yeni Musavat, Baku
20 Oct 06, p 3

"Haci Ilqar Ibrahimoglu: ‘The occupation of Quds is also the occupation
of Azerbaijan’"

Ilqar Ibrahimoglu, head of the Centre to Protect Freedom of Conscience
and Religion (DEVAMM) and imam of the Cuma mosque, has held a round
table devoted to the Quds [Jerusalem] Day. The occupation of Quds is
not only an invasion of Palestine but also of Azerbaijan, Ibrahimoglu
told the round table.

Commenting on the French National Assembly’s adoption of the bill
criminalizing denial of the "Armenian genocide", Ibrahimoglu has
described it as a position of the West towards Muslims.

"At present the West wants to disintegrate Islam from inside. They
damage Muslims by awarding Nobel Prize to [Turkish novelist] Orhan
Pamuk. He both recognized the self-styled "Armenian genocide" and
praised Salman Rushdi’s The Satanic Verses novel that defamed Holy
Koran," he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS