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Leading Wahhabi Stokes The Fires Of Hate - Ruggedtouch - 01-01-2007
Fourteen centuries is a long time for smoldering embers of hate to burn. I think as we’ll see, those smoldering hatreds are going to erupt into a raging inferno.
Revered Saudi cleric denounces Shi'ites as infidels
Quote:DUBAI, Dec 29 (Reuters) - An influential cleric of Saudi Arabia's hardline Sunni school of Islam has denounced Shi'ite Muslims as "infidels" in a new religious edict that comes amid rising sectarian tension in the region.
"The rejectionists (Shi'ites) 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 Web sites.
"They are in truth polytheist infidels, though they hide this," it said, citing theological differences 14 centuries after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, such as reverence of shrines which followers of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school consider abhorrent.
Concern is growing in Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam, over Shi'ite-Sunni violence in Iraq which has taken the northern neighbour to the brink of civil war. Sunni-Shi'ite tensions are also high in Lebanon, where Shi'ites are leading efforts to bring down a Sunni-led cabinet.
"The Sunni and Shi'ites schools of Islam are opposites that can never agree, there can be no coming together unless Sunnis give up their principles," the fatwa said.
Barrak, an independent scholar, has come to be regarded by many as the highest authority for Wahhabi Muslims.
Ya' know, everytime I hear another politburo mouthpiece for islam utter the "fatwa" word, I just know that humanity is going to suffer because of it.
Anyway, this is pretty powerful stuff. In the orbit of the Moslem social milieu, being labeled an infidel is about as hateful a condemnation as can be hurled.
Although, this is all about a centuries old blood feud that, in an age of Moslems with a hand on the trigger of nukes, places the entire globe at risk. The most recent flare up in the Sunni-Shia hatefest resulted in the (Sunni) Iraq vs. (Shia) Iran war of attrition. The prospect of a nuclear Iran, ruled by Death Cult Endtimers’s, is absolutely chilling. Iran and Iraq during their 8 year long slugfest managed to do substantial damage and cause phenomenal loss of life. It’s likely that only the lack of “better” technology stopped them from obliterating entire cities and populations in the course of a single afternoon. Does anyone really believe the Iran vs. Iraq war would not have rivaled the death tally of Stalin or Mao if they had the ability to slaughter on a grander scale?