'Dhiban Youth' Reject IAF suggestions that they are led by Islamic Movement
13-07-2011 12:00 AM
Ammon News - By Jessica Watkins
AMMONNEWS - The Committee of Dhiban Youth issued a statement Monday rejecting statements made by Islamic Action Front (IAF) leader Zaki Bani Ersheid regarding the Islamic Movement's leadership of the Youth and Popular Mobilisation in Jordan.
The committee emphasised that 'these statements come at a time when the Islamic Movement is trying to ride the wave of the Popular Mobilisation and harvest its fruits in vain'.
Bani Ersheid had said in an interview with 'Assharq al-Qatriya' newspaper that most of the marches organised on a weekly basis are attended by Islamists and that we must not forget that most Jordanians are religious and believe that those who raise the banner of Islam deserve to be trusted even if they are not members of the Muslim Brotherhood or the IAF.
"It was therefore not strange that the Islamic movement should head the marches and demonstrations, not only in Jordan but in other Arab states where Islamists are leading the revolutions and are ready because they are prepared to pay a high price for their faith and to achieve their lofty goals," Bani Ersheid added.
The Dhiban pro-reform movement objected to Bani Ersheid's statements, noting that the mobilisation of Jordan's pro-reform activism is being led by populist youth movements and the general Jordanian public who is fed up with being disenfranchised amidst endemic and rampant corruption and slow pace of reform.