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  Iraqi urges Muslims to denounce terror   (AP)  Updated: 2005-11-15 23:15  
 Muslim clerics and scholars must do more to denounce terrorism and its 
leaders or risk allowing Islamic radicalism to spread, the president of Iraq 
said at a conference Tuesday. 
 "It is incumbent on Muslim theologians — and all Muslim thinkers — to make 
sure these criminals have no peace and have no room," Jalal Talabani told a 
gathering of religious and political leaders examining ways to improve contacts 
between the West and Muslim nations. 
 Terrorism has dominated the agenda and showed the deep quandaries over how to 
wage an intellectual battle against al-Qaida and other radical groups. Talabani 
echoed the appeals of many moderate Muslims for sharper anti-terrorist 
condemnations from religious authorities, such as Sunni clerics who have 
influence in regions of Iraq considered rebel strongholds. 
 "Islamic leaders and philosophers must expose that they 
(the terrorist groups) are only trying to deceive their followers and they do 
nothing but destruction," he said. 
   
  
  
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