Muslim religious heads from Indonesia pay a rare public visit to zionist state
zionist Shimon Peres on Friday hosted a rare delegation of Muslim religious leaders from Indonesia, a country that doesn't have diplomatic ties with zionist state.
The clerics, who represent 70 million Muslim faithful, told Peres they came to "present the moderate face of Islam that seeks cooperation and peace with other countries and religions, and repudiates Islamic extremists," Peres' office said in a statement. In welcoming the delegation, Peres declared that zionists enemy is not Islam, but terror.
"The people of the world must repudiate the use of religion to justify the use of terror and bloodshed," he told the clerics. Because the two countries don't have diplomatic relations, visits to zionist state by Indonesian dignitaries are extremely rare, and publicized visits are rarer still.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, is a secular nation with 235 million people, nearly 95 percent of whom are Muslims. It recently joined other Muslim nations that don't recognize zionists at the recent Mideast peace conference in Annapolis .
AP
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