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**Egypt’s mufti defends Hizbollah operations **
Fri Jul 28, 11:11 AM ET
CAIRO (Reuters) - The Mufti of Egypt, the country’s senior exponent of Islamic law, said the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizbollah was defending Lebanon against Israeli injustice.
“The attacks, killing and destruction that are taking place in Lebanon now by Israeli forces are injustice itself,” Mufti Ali Gomaa told a meeting in southern Egypt. He was quoted by the state news agency MENA on Friday.
“This gives the Lebanese the right to defend themselves. Hizbollah is defending its country and what it is doing is not terrorism,” said Gomaa, a government appointee.
On Thursday Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, one of the largest Islamist political movements in the Arab world, rejected fatwas or religious rulings by Saudi clerics against Sunnis supporting Hizbollah, which is Shi’ite Muslim.
In Qatar, prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi condemned the fatwas as “fanaticism.”
“When the enemy enters a country all the people there should unite to resist, be they Sunnis or Shi’ites, Muslims or Christians … Such divisions hurt the resistance, which requires everyone to close ranks and speak in one voice,” Qaradawi said.
“One is not allowed to instigate religious fanaticism which divides the people,” he told Al Jazeera television.
In Cairo after noon prayers on Friday, about 1,000 people protested peacefully against Israeli attacks in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. Many of them chanted slogans in support of Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
At a separate demonstration by children outside a mosque in north Cairo, police detained 15 adult supervisors from the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, the brotherhood said.
Riot police with sticks broke up the protest by about 800 children, one of the organization’s Web sites said.
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