CNSNews.com - ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Imam Viewed Sanctions Against Iraq As an Act of Terrorism: "(CNSNews.com) – The Muslim cleric at the center of the controversy over the mosque near Ground Zero was quoted as saying four years ago that economic sanctions impacting civilians amounted to an act of terrorism.
“We must understand, terrorism is any act of violence which is waged on non-combatants or civilians with a political objective,” Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told reporters in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of a meeting on human rights in Islam, Malaysia’s official Bernama news agency reported on May 18, 2006.
Rauf was speaking in the context of Iraq, saying that according to the United Nations, more than one million Iraqis had died as a result of sanctions imposed by the U.N. against Saddam Hussein’s regime in 1990.
Half of those were children who did not have enough food and medical supplies, Rauf said.
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