Influential cleric calls for Sunni-Shi'ite dialogue in Iraq
 

By Amena Bakr DOHA, June 23 (Reuters) - An influential Sunni Muslim cleric said on Monday that only dialogue could solve Iraq's crisis, sounding a conciliatory **te on the threat posed by Sunni Islamist insurgents that could further polarise the Middle East along sectarian lines. Fighters from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have seized a swathe of **rthern Iraqi towns, as well as border posts with Syria, in a thrust towards Baghdad, stunning the country's Shi'ite Muslim-led central government. Sunni Saudi Arabia has blamed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, saying his rule had incurred Iraqi Sunnis' wrath, and hinted that Shi'ite Iran should **t enter the fray in Iraq against the militants. "There's ** doubt that Sunnis all around the world are being repressed but even more so in Iraq under the Shi'ite leadership," cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi told a news conference in the Qatari capital Doha.

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