.Jordan's parliament blasts four MP's for visiting Zarqawi's family
Amman- Jordan's lower house of parliament on Sunday rebuked four of its members for extending condolences to the family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaeda leader who was killed on Thursday in a US air-strike in Iraq.
'Such behaviour represents a flagrant and deliberate provocation of the Jordanian people's sentiments as well as a dangerous precedent as it involved issuing a fatwa (Islamic judgement) that legalises killing and praises killers,' the chamber said in a statement.
The four lawmakers, who belong to the Islamic Action Front (IAF), on Friday visited a tent set up by al-Zarqawi's family in the city of Zaraqa, 30 kilometres east of Amman, to receive condolences.
One of them, Mohammad Abu Fares, delivered a sermon at a mosque on Friday praising al-Zarqawi as a 'martyr'.
He also queried the legality of dubbing the 60 civilians killed in the Amman triple hotel bombings last November as 'martyrs'.
His remarks sparked a sharp reaction from victims' relatives who earlier Sunday issued an angry statement against the four deputies.
'The House of Representatives, which expresses extreme anger over such dangerous and irresponsible practices by the four deputies, urges the IAF to hold them accountable for their behaviour and consider what they did a crime that cannot be forgiven,' the statement said.
IAF spokesman has said that the four lawmakers had acted in a personal capacity and that the party had nothing to do with their remarks.
The IAF, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement, has 17 deputies in the 110-member chamber.
M&C
And they said they had disowned him. Pack of liars. It's too bad that we could not send them a funeral present to ease their mourning, you know, air mail.
'Such behaviour represents a flagrant and deliberate provocation of the Jordanian people's sentiments as well as a dangerous precedent as it involved issuing a fatwa (Islamic judgement) that legalises killing and praises killers,' the chamber said in a statement.
The four lawmakers, who belong to the Islamic Action Front (IAF), on Friday visited a tent set up by al-Zarqawi's family in the city of Zaraqa, 30 kilometres east of Amman, to receive condolences.
One of them, Mohammad Abu Fares, delivered a sermon at a mosque on Friday praising al-Zarqawi as a 'martyr'.
He also queried the legality of dubbing the 60 civilians killed in the Amman triple hotel bombings last November as 'martyrs'.
His remarks sparked a sharp reaction from victims' relatives who earlier Sunday issued an angry statement against the four deputies.
'The House of Representatives, which expresses extreme anger over such dangerous and irresponsible practices by the four deputies, urges the IAF to hold them accountable for their behaviour and consider what they did a crime that cannot be forgiven,' the statement said.
IAF spokesman has said that the four lawmakers had acted in a personal capacity and that the party had nothing to do with their remarks.
The IAF, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood Movement, has 17 deputies in the 110-member chamber.
M&C
And they said they had disowned him. Pack of liars. It's too bad that we could not send them a funeral present to ease their mourning, you know, air mail.
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