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Arab Politicians Reject Bin Laden's Call to Arms, Support Palestinians
Sunday, November 4, 2001
IslamOnline & News Agencies

"We face an international situation that demands much vigilance," Jordan's Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah al-Khatib added, so that Arabs and Muslims "do not bear the repercussions of the [terrorists] causes."

DAMASCUS -- Syria
Arab politicians and the highest authority in Sunni Islam rejected Sunday a call from Osama bin Laden for Muslims to join in a "religious war" against the Christian West, and called for international action to ensure the creation of a Palestinian state, saying verbal promises no longer sufficed.

"We warn against any political fraud of which the Arabs would be victim if a peace process, whose content and aims remain unknown, is launched," Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said at a committee meeting of Arab foreign ministers, charged with the dossier of the Palestinian uprising, or Intifada.

Mussa warned: "A peace process must have content and its aim must be the establishment of a Palestinian state."

U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have recently issued statements favoring the establishment of a Palestinian state, while stopping short of concrete details.

"We will not wait 10 more years, statements alone are not enough, they must be backed up on the ground," Mussa added, referring to the 1993 Oslo accords, which have failed to produce the hoped-for results.
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