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Hamas

Jamal Khashoggi, who I have written about previously, also writes in the Beirut Daily Star. Khashoggi offers strong praise for Hamas, and rejects the notion that Hamas is an extremist group, in contrast, he says, to the terrorists who have committed attacks in Saudi Arabia. Indeed, Khashoggi contrasts "Hamas’ martyrdom operations with Riyadh’s suicide attacks" and refers to Hamas as a group that "belongs to the 'mainstream and middle of the road Islamic trend. Its tenets are at the core of the legitimate Islamic movement and have nothing to do with irreverent and angry movements. It seeks to liberate a nation and build a state, while the nonbelievers want to destroy a nation, unravel a legitimate state, and create discord between them."

President Bush should listen to what Khashoggi is saying: that rather than a fanatical fringe, Hamas is at the core of what Islam is, with goals deemed mainstream within the Islamic world.
posted on 7/03/2003