UN condemns Gaddafi jihad call

EXCERPT from Al Jazeera English (link below):

The United Nations and European Union have condemned a call from Libya’s leader for Muslims to carry out jihad against Switzerland over a recent vote to ban the construction of minarets in the European country.

Gaddafi said: “Any Muslim around the world who has dealings with Switzerland is an infidel [and is] against Islam, against Mohammed, against God, against the Quran.”

“Let us fight against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression,” he said in a speech broadcast live on television.

Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the UN director-general in Geneva, said the call by Muammar Gaddafi on Friday was “inadmissible”.

Read the full article at http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/02/2010226124744420153.html

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