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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 13 Sport | 22 Qatar Motor Show The Greek government Nasser Saleh Al 2015 attracted a large has vowed not to Attiyah was on course number of automobile accept any deal that yesterday for a 12th aficionados to QNCC keeps its bailout victory at the QMMF yesterday. programme in place. Qatar International Rally. SATURDAY 7 FEBRUARY 2015 • 18 Rabial II 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6334 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 GCC states Clerics slam call for bigger international burning of role in Yemen MUNICH: Gulf Arab States have called for a “stronger” position by the international Jordan pilot community on the situation in Yemen, a senior US State Department official said yester- Issue taken up in Friday sermons day following meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry. DOHA: Most imams in Qatar, a human, whether he has been The meeting between Kerry in their Friday sermons yester- killed or has died, is forbidden in and ministers from Bahrain, day, slammed the burning alive Islam. It is ‘haraam’, he said. Oman, Qatar, the United Arab of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic In Soheb Mosque in Al Wakra, Emirates, Saudi Arabia and State (IS) militants late last Imam Sheikh Ahmed Al Buanain, Kuwait also expressed concern week and dubbed them as cow- while delivering the Friday ser- about Iran’s influence in Yemen ards and anti-Islamic. mon, said the Islamic State was but no arrangements were made It was the first Friday after a group of terrorists. to talk to Tehran about it, the the pilot’s burning shocked the “They are misusing the name official added. world. In Islam, the only one who of Islam and destabilising Muslim “There was a feeling that the can punish a human with fire is countries and we are just watch- international community needed Allah, the Almighty, a cleric told ing as mute spectators.” to take a stronger position, either this newspaper. Al Buanain, who is Secretary- through the UN or another mul- At the Grand Mosque, Imam General of the International Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with US Secretary of State John Kerry and ministers from tilateral organization,” the official Dr Thaqueel Al Shummari, in his Muslim Preachers’ Association, other GCC countries during a meeting in Munich, Germany, yesterday. added. sermon, denounced the burning decried the killing of Al Kassasbeh REUTERS alive of Maaz Al Kassasbeh. as an act against humanity. It was an anti-Islamic act, In Al Khor’s Osman bin Affan for Maaz was a prisoner of war Mosque, Imam Dr Mohamed bin (PoW) and he should have been Hassan Al Miraikhi said these treated as per principles laid were times of crises as people Shia militia dissolves Yemen parliament down in Islam on how to treat a were deviating from Islam. He PoW, he said. slammed the pilot’s killing by the SANA’A: The Shia militia After another round of talks have had the blessing of some region of Yemen have urged GCC A PoW can either be released IS militants. that has seized Yemen’s capital late on Thursday attended by UN other political factions. states not to abandon their coun- or exchanged for another PoW or In Assailiya mosque, Imam Dr announced yesterday it had dis- envoy Jamal Benomar, partici- A senior American official said try, and to back them in the cur- released in lieu of cash, said the Abayee said, while denouncing solved parliament and installed pants had said negotiations would the United States was opposed to rent crisis. prominent Islamic cleric. the burning of Al Kassasbeh in a “presidential council” to run resume today. the Houthi militia’s creation of a A spokesman for Marib’s Sunni The Grand Mosque, now no uncertain terms, that some- the country in the face of a Yesterday, Benomar flew out of “presidential council” in Yemen, tribal leaders, Saleh Al Anjaf, was renamed as Imam Mohamed bin times people could be confused power vacuum. the country before the declaration after top US diplomat John quoted by Alarabia.net as exhort- Abdul Wahab Mosque, was packed with such acts of brutality and The Houthi militia said it would was announced. Kerry met leaders from the Gulf ing Yemeni tribes to stand up to to capacity with the devout. terror and may think Islam per- set up a national council of 551 Yesterday’s declaration sug- Cooperation Council. the Shia Houthis. Al Shummari said that Muslims mits them. members to replace the legislature. gested that the Houthis had taken “No, we don’t agree with it, Al Anjaf said what had hap- were being burnt alive in differ- “That’s not true. Islam forbids The five-member presidential on more powers, including form- and they didn’t agree with it pened in his country would lead ent places around the world: in such acts of terror,” he said. council will form a transitional ing the new parliament and con- either,” the official told report- to civil war. Central Africa, in Myanmar and On the website of International government to govern for two trol over the military and security ers in Munich, when asked what In Qatar, people commented in Iraq and Syria. “This must Muslim Scholars’ Union, of which years, the Houthis announced in forces. Washington thought about yester- on social networking sites, with stop.” he is head, noted cleric Dr Yusuf a “constitutional declaration”. Some political leaders attended day’s developments in Yemen. one person saying he feared that Even if an enemy is to be killed, Al Qarawadi said the rights of The declaration came after a the announcement, which took Hundreds of protesters took to Iran, which was active in Syria, Islam says he should be killed in a PoWs are protected in Islam. Wednesday deadline set by the place at the Presidential Palace. the streets in the Yemeni city of will now be active in Yemen. “The merciful way without much pain, “What we are seeing is against militia for political parties to Former interior and defence min- Taiz to reject the Houthi takeover, Shia extension is at our doorstep,” said the cleric. the teachings of Islam,” said Al resolve the crisis passed with no isters were also there, indicating eyewitnesses said. another commentator said. THE And mutilating the body of Qaradawi. THE PENINSULA agreement. that the announcement might Sunni tribal leaders in Marib PENINSULA & AGENCIES Ladies Tour of Qatar Oil surges after UAE: No victory over US jobs report NEW YORK: Oil prices scored IS minus Iraqi Sunnis strong gains for a second day yesterday, helped by a surpris- DUBAI: The United Arab concerns about the failure to arm ingly robust jobs report in the Emirates pulled out of US-led Sunni tribes at a meeting of coun- United States, the world’s larg- air strikes on Islamic State posi- tries supporting the coalition in est crude consumer. tions partly because it thought London US benchmark West Texas they could not succeed without a “The UAE said: ‘the main point Intermediate (WTI) for March push to arm Sunni Muslim tribes is what we have expressed in the delivery advanced $1.21 (2.4 per- in Iraq, a newspaper close to the last London conference — coali- cent) to settle at $51.69 a barrel. government said yesterday. tion against Daesh — about the Brent North Sea crude for The UAE’s decision to withdraw continuation of not empowering March, the European benchmark, its planes, reported by US offi- the Sunni tribes in Anbar province closed at $57.80 a barrel, up $1.23 cials after a Jordanian pilot was despite the promises to do so’,” the (2.2 percent) from Thursday’s shot down over Syria on December paper reported. closing level. 24, raised fears that regional sup- It did not give any details on the After several days of volatile port for the coalition air campaign source of its information. trade, the two key futures con- might be slipping. Tribes in Iraq’s western Anbar tracts posted their best weekly The UAE has not commented province, which borders Jordan, performances since February on the reports of its decision but Syria and Saudi Arabia, are 2011: WTI jumped 13.6 percent US officials said it was concerned divided. Some have chosen to join and Brent added 9.4 percent. about pilots’ safety. the hardline Sunni Muslim fight- AFP Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead (left) crosses the finish line to claim overall victory in the Ladies Tour of Qatar, ahead Al Etihad newspaper said yes- ers of Islamic State, while others of Australia’s Chloe Hosking, at Doha Corniche yesterday. See also page 21 terday that was only part of the are fighting the group. reasoning. The fall of large parts of Anbar “The other important part province to Islamic State poses behind the UAE’s reservation a major security risk for its ... was its discontent with the neighbours. UN, Arab League in urgent appeal to Gaza donors coalition, which has not kept its The United States has said the promise in supporting the Sunnis coalition includes more than 60 UNITED NATIONS: The to honour and disburse as soon as help rebuild Gaza after devastat- The United Nations Relief and in Anbar, not preparing them, countries, carrying out various leaders of the United Nations possible their financial commit- ing Israeli bombing aimed at stop- Works Agency, responsible for equipping them and arming them tasks, including military attacks, and the Arab League made an ments made at the October 2014 ping Hamas rocket attacks in July distributing much of the aid, has to take part in the war against humanitarian support, propa- urgent appeal to international Cairo Conference,” the statement last year.

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