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| Iraq |
| Sunni Clerics Criticize Iraq Shiite Call to Arms |
| 2014-06-15 |
| [An Nahar] A union of Sunni Moslem holy mans on Saturday criticized calls for Iraqi Shiites to fight a jihadist-led myrmidon offensive in northern Iraq, which the body called a "Sunni revolution". The Doha-based International Union of Moslem Scholars said developments in Iraq were a "result of oppression and exclusion of people that wanted freedom," in reference to the country's minority Sunni Arab community. The union, which is led by influential holy man Yusef al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Lifeon Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization.Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , who is linked to the Moslem Brüderbund, denounced "sectarian fatwa edicts calling for arms among our Shiite brothers" insisting they would lead to "devastating sectarian war." "We urge our Shiite brothers in Iraq and elsewhere, and Sunnis, to avoid being the fuel for an awful sectarian war, and call on them to stand by their Sunni brothers to reach a viable solution," it said. Thousands of Shiite volunteers have reportedly signed up after revered Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on Iraqis to join the fight against the myrmidons. A major offensive, spearheaded by powerful jihadist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... but also involving late dictator Saddam Hussein's supporters, has overrun a large chunk of northern and north-central Iraq since Monday. The holy manal union said the insurgency "could not have been led by one Islamist party," a reference to ISIL, instead describing it as a "all-out Sunni revolution." "This is not a revolution against the Shiites. It is aimed at recovering legitimate rights," it said, calling for the formation of a "national unity government." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 #2 TU: Yes. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-06-15 18:56 |
| #2 Which is the most violent religion Sunni or Shia? |
| Posted by: Thusosh Untervehr8552 2014-06-15 18:31 |
| #1 The opening shots of the great Moslem civil war. The Sunnis are calling BS on Sistani and giving their guys theological cover to do what they've been doing...tut tut...anything goes after all those Shia are just a bunch of demon spawned apostates and heretics. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-06-15 12:09 |