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Monday, April 7, 2003
Kuwaiti Worshipers Said Opposing Anti-US Sermons, Preachers

Kuwaiti Worshipers Said Opposing Anti-US Sermons, Preachers
GMP20030406000044 Kuwait Al-Siyasah (Internet Version-WWW) in Arabic 05 Apr
03
[With thanks to www.mideastweb.org/mewnews1.htm ]

[FBIS Translated Text]

Al-Siyasah has learned that a new phenomenon has emerged in some Kuwaiti
mosques. The worshipers have begun to reject the extremism that some imams
express in their sermons and their advocacy of fighting the Americans and
viewing them as enemies. Worshipers at a mosque in the Janub al-Surrah
neighborhood interrupted the prayer leader Nabil al-Awadi when he began to
call down imprecations on the heads of the Americans during last Friday's
sermon. They demanded that he stop doing that. Friday worshipers at the
A'ishah Habib Mosque in the Al-Jabiriyah neighborhood yesterday shouted the
slogan: "O God, grant a lofty status to Islam and grant the same to the
United States." They did this to express their opposition to the
anti-American announcements that the mosque's imam was making.

Political observers affirmed that this phenomenon in Kuwait's mosques
demonstrates that the worshipers are no longer prepared to accept without
question everything that they are told. They have moved from the stage of
being passive listeners to the stage of being active protestors. This is a
clear challenge not only to the Awqaf Ministry, which has failed to deter
these imams and put an end to their actions, but also to the Political Islam
groups that have for a long time played a role in politicizing the country's
mosques.

[Description of Source: Kuwait Al-Siyasah (Internet Version-WWW) in
Arabic -- Independent daily newspaper; Internet:
http://www.al-seyassah.com/]

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