Upsurge of Anti-U.S. Sentiment Among World Muslims, Arabs
October 28, 2000 - 0:0
TEHRAN A wave of hatred against the United States has once again swept the Muslim and Arab nations throughout the world.
Indonesian naval forces forced out an American destroyer equipped with long-range missiles from waters in the vicinity of Molok Islands, reported the Indonesian news agency Antara.
Antara, quoting Captain Joko Somariono, commander of the security forces of eastern area of Indonesia, reported that two fleets belonging to Indonesian Navy drove out the American destroyer that failed to provide convincing reasons for its presence in the waters of that country.
The captain said the officials of the U.S. destroyer only said they acted according to their right to cross the waters of Indonesia, providing no more explanation.
These days Washington has been accused of intervention in the internal affairs of Indonesia, and anti-American sentiments have mounted among Indonesian people.
Also U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, was closed down after receiving threats against the embassy and the U.S. Ambassador to Jakarta, Robert Gelbard.
Following the wave of anti-U.S. sentiment among Muslims and Arabs across the world, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen held a video conference with regional commanders to discuss the security of U.S. troops deployed around the world, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
The talk follows an October 12 bomb attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden that left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
U.S. forces in Qatar and Bahrain were put on the highest state of alert last weekend in response to multiple threats of attacks.
The alert status was also increased for U.S. troops at Incirlik air base in Turkey, used by the United States to enforce a no-fly zone over northern Iraq.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said force protection was the chief subject discussed during the conference.
Meanwhile, top Lebanese religions leader Allamah Seyed Mohammad Hassan Fazlallah called on Arab and Muslim countries to close down all American bases in the region.
Delivering his Friday prayer sermon, Fazlallah called on the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to hold an urgent session in order to review the probable dangers which may threat Islamic sites.
Furthermore, London-based Islamist Abu Hamza al-Masri on Friday called for the expulsion of all Americans from Islamic countries and for all oil deliveries to Washington to be halted.
"The United States and its people are carrying out an open war against Islam and Muslims, and for this, it is illegal for (U.S.) soldiers or civilians to live in Muslim countries," Abu Hamza said in a statement received by AFP in Dubai.
"It is not legal to provide them (the Americans) with a glut of oil," said Abu Hamza, a Briton of Egyptian origin.
"It is also good to reduce the oil price for those who adopt a hostile attitude" toward the United States, said Abu Hamza, who heads the supporters of Sharia (Islamic law) movement.
An Omani daily also stressed that the U.S. relations with the Zionist regime and its unjustness is the main reason for its defeat in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East region.
Three Palestinians were martyred in separate clashes with Israeli troops on Friday in the northern West Bank towns of Tulkarem and Qalqilya, hospital officials said.
Ahmed Mohammed Kassem, 25, died after being shot in the chest with a live bullet by Zionist troops at the western entrance to the Palestinian-ruled town of Tulkarem.
According to AFP, in Qalqilya, Bashir Saleh Salawit, 15, was shot in the abdomen.
Their deaths bring to 142 the number of people killed most of them Arab since violent confrontations flared throughout the Palestinian territories a month ago.
Palestinian groups had declared Friday a "day of rage" against Israel.
Also, six Palestinians were injured in scattered clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza strip on Friday.
In the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets after hurling stones at an army blockade near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The clashes erupted as thousands of mourners joined the funeral in Gaza city of the 24-year-old Islamic jihad activist who killed himself and wounded an Israeli soldier in a suicide bomb attack against an army post the day before.
In Gaza city, some 5,000 people, some firing weapons into the air, turned up for the funeral for Nabil Faraj al-Arrir, a member of the Islamic Jihad Group, who blew himself up Thursday near an Israeli Army post in the Gaza Strip, wounding one soldier.
Meanwhile, thousands of Indian Muslims Friday marched in New Delhi to protest against "Israeli brutality" toward Palestinians.
Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the spiritual head of Muslims in India, led a crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people from the Jama Masjid (mosque) in New Delhi after Friday prayer.
"Israel is brutally killing Palestinian Muslims ... they are systematically reducing the Muslim population in the area," Bukhari told the congregation in the mosque before the march. The protesters also chanted anti-U.S. slogans.
Indonesian naval forces forced out an American destroyer equipped with long-range missiles from waters in the vicinity of Molok Islands, reported the Indonesian news agency Antara.
Antara, quoting Captain Joko Somariono, commander of the security forces of eastern area of Indonesia, reported that two fleets belonging to Indonesian Navy drove out the American destroyer that failed to provide convincing reasons for its presence in the waters of that country.
The captain said the officials of the U.S. destroyer only said they acted according to their right to cross the waters of Indonesia, providing no more explanation.
These days Washington has been accused of intervention in the internal affairs of Indonesia, and anti-American sentiments have mounted among Indonesian people.
Also U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, was closed down after receiving threats against the embassy and the U.S. Ambassador to Jakarta, Robert Gelbard.
Following the wave of anti-U.S. sentiment among Muslims and Arabs across the world, U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen held a video conference with regional commanders to discuss the security of U.S. troops deployed around the world, the Pentagon announced Thursday.
The talk follows an October 12 bomb attack on the U.S. destroyer Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden that left 17 U.S. sailors dead.
U.S. forces in Qatar and Bahrain were put on the highest state of alert last weekend in response to multiple threats of attacks.
The alert status was also increased for U.S. troops at Incirlik air base in Turkey, used by the United States to enforce a no-fly zone over northern Iraq.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said force protection was the chief subject discussed during the conference.
Meanwhile, top Lebanese religions leader Allamah Seyed Mohammad Hassan Fazlallah called on Arab and Muslim countries to close down all American bases in the region.
Delivering his Friday prayer sermon, Fazlallah called on the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to hold an urgent session in order to review the probable dangers which may threat Islamic sites.
Furthermore, London-based Islamist Abu Hamza al-Masri on Friday called for the expulsion of all Americans from Islamic countries and for all oil deliveries to Washington to be halted.
"The United States and its people are carrying out an open war against Islam and Muslims, and for this, it is illegal for (U.S.) soldiers or civilians to live in Muslim countries," Abu Hamza said in a statement received by AFP in Dubai.
"It is not legal to provide them (the Americans) with a glut of oil," said Abu Hamza, a Briton of Egyptian origin.
"It is also good to reduce the oil price for those who adopt a hostile attitude" toward the United States, said Abu Hamza, who heads the supporters of Sharia (Islamic law) movement.
An Omani daily also stressed that the U.S. relations with the Zionist regime and its unjustness is the main reason for its defeat in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East region.
Three Palestinians were martyred in separate clashes with Israeli troops on Friday in the northern West Bank towns of Tulkarem and Qalqilya, hospital officials said.
Ahmed Mohammed Kassem, 25, died after being shot in the chest with a live bullet by Zionist troops at the western entrance to the Palestinian-ruled town of Tulkarem.
According to AFP, in Qalqilya, Bashir Saleh Salawit, 15, was shot in the abdomen.
Their deaths bring to 142 the number of people killed most of them Arab since violent confrontations flared throughout the Palestinian territories a month ago.
Palestinian groups had declared Friday a "day of rage" against Israel.
Also, six Palestinians were injured in scattered clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza strip on Friday.
In the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets after hurling stones at an army blockade near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and hospital officials said.
The clashes erupted as thousands of mourners joined the funeral in Gaza city of the 24-year-old Islamic jihad activist who killed himself and wounded an Israeli soldier in a suicide bomb attack against an army post the day before.
In Gaza city, some 5,000 people, some firing weapons into the air, turned up for the funeral for Nabil Faraj al-Arrir, a member of the Islamic Jihad Group, who blew himself up Thursday near an Israeli Army post in the Gaza Strip, wounding one soldier.
Meanwhile, thousands of Indian Muslims Friday marched in New Delhi to protest against "Israeli brutality" toward Palestinians.
Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari, the spiritual head of Muslims in India, led a crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 people from the Jama Masjid (mosque) in New Delhi after Friday prayer.
"Israel is brutally killing Palestinian Muslims ... they are systematically reducing the Muslim population in the area," Bukhari told the congregation in the mosque before the march. The protesters also chanted anti-U.S. slogans.