US war like satan’s apple

LOCAL muslim scholar and president of the World Muslim League, Dr Waffie Mohammed, has said that the US-led war against Iraq is a war against Islam and has called on muslims to be “firm in their faith”.

It was at the weekly congregational prayer on Friday at ASJA Mosque, San Fernando, which evoked anti-US sentiments from a large turnout of worshippers. Mohammed said that the dropping of bombs in Iraq was merely an illusion which seemed like a beautiful endeavour for the US. “But the eyes which see the real beauty,” Mohammed, quoting from the Koran, said, “will prevail.” Saying that the war was against ‘believers’, Mohammed referred to the onslaught of bombs on the Arab nation as an act which could be likened to Satan’s attempt to fool Adam with an apple. “The apple seemed beautiful, but it wasn’t the apple,” Mohammed said.

In a special prayer (dua) after the service in which worshippers joined in, Mohammed pleaded: “Our prayers are with the people of Iraq. “The severe onslaught on the unbelievers is a great challenge and we ask you, Oh Allah, for strength and fortitude...patience and wisdom.” Mohammed said that the way of Islam will prevail over all other systems. He said that the systems of the world when one examines international politics and moral life, “have blinded people through which they are being deceived.”