Iraqi religious leaders to ban inter-Islamic fighting
10/7/2006
RIYADH - Iraqi Sunni and Shiite religious leaders are planning to sign in Saudi Arabia a declaration that forbids inter-Islamic fighting, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference said Saturday.

"This meeting aims to ban the fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in order to avoid a civil war" in the war-torn country, he said, adding that it is an OIC initiative "to help in ending the killings and bombings in Iraq." Mufti said that Iraq's revered Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is strongly in favour of holding the meeting, but he did not disclose names of the Iraqi figures who will be attending.
Iraqi religious leaders to ban inter-Islamic fighting