Sadr urges unified prayers in Baghdad to reject pact
November 14, 2008 - 02:31:10
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Friday called for performing unified prayers next Friday at Baghdad’s al-Firdos square to reject the Iraqi-U.S. security pact.
“Let all worshippers next week join a peaceful demonstration to express their rejection to the pact,” Sadr said in a release that was read after today’s Friday prayers in Sadr city.
“I hope that all Muslims in the Muslim and Arab worlds would support the demonstration morally by joining unified prayers at their countries,” he added.
“I call on pilgrims in Mecca to pray that the nations in Jerusalem and Iraq would dispel the darkness of occupation,” he noted.
“I call on Arab governments to launch enlightenment and reform and to use their authorities to drive the occupation forces out of the Arab homeland’s territories, because we would not be a unified nation as long as we are occupied,” he explained.
“I repeat my demand to the U.S. occupation forces to leave our beloved Iraq without keeping bases or signing treaties; otherwise, I support the honest people who resist the occupation,” he proceeded.
“We hope that security forces would not damage the honest resistance that has not and will not target any Iraqi,” he asserted.
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