Clerics to Tell Bush His Policies Aid Terror
When President Bush meets Indonesia’s leading Muslim clerics Wednesday they will tell him U.S. policies in the Middle East, seen as favoring Israel, are one of the root causes of terror attacks in Asia. But clerics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation don’t expect the leader of the globe’s sole superpower to listen. “I will tell it like it is. In Indonesia, the majority are not happy with the U.S. stance in the Middle East conflict,” Hasyim Muzadi, leader of the country’s largest Muslim group, the 40-million-strong Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), told Reuters on Tuesday. Full Story