Grand Ayatollah Ali SistaniHello, Lancet?... Hello?
Asia News
September 26, 2007
The powerful and revered Iraqi spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani issued a statement today blasting the foreign press for making it sound like Iraq is in a civil war.
Maybe Ayatollah Sistani reads the blogs?
Iranian Mehr News reported:
TEHRAN, Sept. 26 (MNA) – The Iraqi spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has issued a statement demanding resistance against certain Arab satellite news networks which try to convince the viewers that Iraq is entangled in a tribal war, AFP reported on Wednesday.It's too bad that Joe Biden and the other foolish US senators would have read this before they voted to split Iraq into pieces today!
The statement was issued after a group of Iraqi tribes met with Ayatollah Sistani in the holy city of Najaf.
“Your country is rich and I want you to set aside differences between yourselves and your Sunni brothers and stand like a formidable mountain against attempts by certain satellite networks which try to disrupt this unity because these networks exaggerate about the reports of deaths and explosions and depict them in a way as if tribal war is underway in Iraq,” the statement read which was released by the information office of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
It is the first reaction by the grand ayatollah against foreign media which try to inflame hatred among Iraqi civilians.
Certain Arab networks such as Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera exaggerate about the scope of explosions and armed struggles in Iraq.
These networks do interviews with certain persons who claim the government is unable to establish security in Iraq.
In their interviews with these people the networks try to convince the viewers that Iraq is entangled in communal clashes.
(How does the US Senate divide another foreign sovereign democracy into pieces, by the way?... No wonder the democrats call the US occupiers. They don't want it but think Iraq is theirs to divide up, anyway.)
Previously:
Iraq's Spiritual Leader Calls for Unity & the Disarming of Militias
Real Developments in Iraq
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Expresses Solidarity with Pope!
Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Calls For Peace & Unity in Iraq
Largest Iraqi Shiite Party Splits With Iran
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ReplyDeletegood freakin' luck with splitting
Iraq apart you stoopid (_o_)'s!!
dang, we sure could use a Sistani to tell our f'n seditious media.. and politicians off!! where the heck is BUSH??
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Who died and made the US Senate king? I for one do not believe we should be imperialists.
ReplyDeleteThis character is one of the Mullah tools and a close "friend" of Khomeini's from the days that greater Satan lived in Iraq. He has never been worth listening to and it is an absolute joke that anyone even gave him any credence to begin with...another MAJOR screw up of Paul Bremer.
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[The Persian-born ayatollah represents the conservative and mainstream of Iraqi Shias - rejecting the model of Iranian - style theocracy in favour of a separation between religion and politics.]
Largest Iraqi Shiite Party Splits With Iran
every little bit helps..
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[Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani met the country's Sunni vice president on Thursday for the first time to discuss a new initiative aimed at uniting feuding politicians.]
[Hashemi stressed he had not asked Sistani to put pressure on any Shi'ite group to return to cabinet, saying the purpose of the meeting had been to discuss the new initiative, known as the Iraqi National Compact.
"The meeting was profound and many issues related to the political process were discussed," Hashemi told reporters after his meeting with the highly influential Shi'ite cleric.
"I briefed his eminence on the Iraqi National Compact and he informed me he had already seen a copy and read, analysed and expressed his remarks on the initiative," he said.
Sistani's office declined to comment on the meeting.
The Iraqi National Compact is a set of 25 political principles unveiled by Hashemi's party on Wednesday aimed at removing deep mistrust among politicians.
The compact is being distributed to political parties, senior clerics and neighbouring countries. Hashemi said he had asked Sistani for detailed comments on the principles.]
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Yo dude, he not only reads the blogs, he has a blog. I don't agree with the teachings of his religion but he along with Dr. Jasser are among the few muslims that I have respect for.
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