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January 23, 2007
Palestinians Unpopular
Nothing new. Palestinians are unpopular where ever they live. The Lebanese didn't like them. The Jordanians didn't like them. And now it appears that some Iraqis don't like them. Palestinians living in Iraq have been warned that they will be killed by Shia militias unless they leave the country immediately.It appears that this is a part of a general Sunni - Shia war brewing in the Middle East. DUBAI: An influential cleric of Saudi Arabia's hardline Sunni school of Islam has denounced Shia Muslims as "infidels" in a new religious edict that comes amid rising sectarian tension in the region. "The rejectionists (Shias) in their entirety are the worst of the Islamic nation's sects. They bear all the characteristics of infidels," Sheikh Abdel-Rahman al-Barrak said in the fatwa, or ruling, distributed on Islamist websites. "They are in truth polytheist infidels, though they hide this," the fatwa said, citing theological differences 14 centuries after the death of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), such as reverence of shrines which followers of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school consider abhorrent. Concern is growing in Saudi Arabia over Shia-Sunni violence in Iraq which has taken the northern neighbour to the brink of civil war. Sunni-Shia tensions are also high in Lebanon, where Shias are leading efforts to bring down a Sunni-led cabinet. "The Sunni and Shias schools of Islam are opposites that can never agree, there can be no coming together," the fatwa said. Barrak, an independent scholar, has come to be regarded by many as the highest authority for Wahhabi Muslims.It seems like our little adventure in Iraq has opened the fault lines of the Middle East. Jeeze, if this keeps up we could have a religious war on our hands. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.23.07 at 06:37 PM |
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I thought we already have a religious war on our hands.
It started in the seventh century, came to Europe in 711, had a reversal in Spain in 1492, outside Vienna in 1683, at Lepanto, at Malta, and now since 1979 (maybe 1968, I'm not convinced otherwise) there has been a resurgence, of which 9/11/01 was merely a single attack.