No Jewish rabbis will be invited to the International Islamic Conference, due to be organized next March by the Ministry of Wakfs (religious endowment), due to the massacres perpetrated by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq said. The imams of mosques have not received instructions on not talking about the war in Gaza, he added. "We, of course, reject to invite any Jew to participate in activities of the International Islamic Conference in light of the current Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip," Zaqzouq said in a press conference yesterday. "We do not want to spoil the conference by inviting the Jews because all people will take about their participation without paying attention to the conference's activities." "We will think to invite the Jews to attend our conferences only when there would be a peace between Egypt and all Arab countries on the one hand and Israel on the other hand and when all the usurped Arab rights return," he added. The minister stressed that he is not against the Jewish religion, but he strongly rejects the Zionist actions and the ongoing Israeli massacres.
