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Sistani: An ex-moderate?
We used to hear all the time that Sistani was a moderate. But it should be clear to everyone now that he wants Sharia in Iraq, and, in accordance with Sharia principles, will not side with infidels against a fellow Muslim. From The Guardian:
Iraq's most powerful Shia spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, warned the United States against entering the holy city of Najaf in pursuit of his militant rival, Moqtada al-Sadr, it was reported yesterday.A senior Shia source told Reuters that Ayatollah Sistani had declared Najaf a "red line".
The warning came as 2,500 US troops gathered around the central Iraqi city in pursuit of Mr Sadr and his Mahdi militia. It is significant because that US incursions into the holy city would unite Shia factions, and possibly spark a broader uprising among Iraq's majority population.
The sensitivity of the situation appeared to have been taken on board by the US military and General Richard Myers, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said talks were under way to try to avoid a bloodbath in Najaf.
General Myers, on a visit to Baghdad, said the US admin istrator Paul Bremer was using "multiple channels" in the negotiations to resolve the situation both there and in Falluja, where more than 700 Iraqis have died.
The stand-off around Najaf came during a day of violence in Iraq, alleviated only by the release of three Japanese hostages who had been threatened with being burned alive by their captors.
Only hours earlier, Italian security guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi was shown to have been executed by hostage takers. Film of the execution was sent to the Qatar-based television station al-Jazeera.
In Baghdad, an Iranian diplomat was assassinated only a day after Tehran revealed the US had asked for its help in defusing violence in Shia areas. Khalil Naimi, first deputy at the embassy in Baghdad, was shot dead near the Iranian embassy in the Salhiya neighbourhood.
In the face of a rapidly deteriorating situation, the defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that over 20,000 US troops would have to stay in Iraq three months longer than expected, breaking an earlier pledge that combat tours would not last over a year. The decision kept the US troop level in Iraq at 135,000. It had been due to drop to 115,000.
Posted by Robert at April 17, 2004 8:37 AM
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How does one ever trust a Muslim, from anywhere? The Islamic philosophy builds a human organism which operates like the story about the scorpion and the frog. To synopsize that story for any unfamiliar with it: A scorpion successfully pleads with a very wary frog to transport the scorpion to the other bank of a stream. The frog is reassured by the scorpion that he will not be stung; such would be ingratitude. While riding the frog to the next bank, the scorpion stings the frog fatally. Dying, the frog asks why the scorpion broke his word and did this, to which the scorpion replies, "This is my nature."
Study the face of Sistani, particularly the eyes. Aristotle, and others, referred to the eyes as the portals to the soul, and all were so correct about this. Look at any of these Mullahs, including Sistani, Al Sadr, the Iranian crowd, and any others, anywhere. Note the deadness. When you look at them like this, you are looking at the countenance of pure evil. Study it carefully: It is coming for you.
Posted by: Ilhad at April 17, 2004 11:18 AMIlhad - Your story sounds like the B'rer Rabbit's encounter with the wounded snake in the road. The moral was the same. "You knew what I was before you picked me up."
Sistani and all the rest are evil. They aren't interest in the Almighty. Religion is only their tool for creating and maintaining a POWER base. Power is a heady sensation. These men have absolute power of life and death, punishment using great brutality, their choice of women sanctioned in the Koran, disposition of funds and armies, all at the slightest gesture and with a few words dropped from their tongues in the form of fatwa or command. Even moderate Muslims admit that if they were ordered to violence through fatwa they would have to obey. Thus all clerics are potentially able to order murder and violence. Yes, indeed, be ready, these people are coming for us sooner or later.
Posted by: epg at April 17, 2004 12:43 PMNeither holy or moderate, this ‘cleric’ wants an Islamic state every bit as much as Sadr or the Iranian mullahs do. He seems to have done everything possible to put a spanner in the works when the new constitution was being drawn up earlier this year.
The only reason he’s not actively backing Sadr now and calling for all out opposition to democracy is because he realizes Sadr is a violent and dangerous rival.
Don’t know how true this is, but I read somewhere that Sistani even refused to meet Bremmer because he considers him an unclean infidel. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Posted by: Northerner at April 17, 2004 12:52 PMGentlemen. You do not negotiate with evil. You destroy it. If you do not, it will destroy you.
He looks like Khomenni or however you spell his name....the dead and rotting Iranian...
Posted by: D.C. Watson at April 17, 2004 5:07 PMMy feelings are hurt; doesn't anyone like my "pig poop plan"? You know, it's the one where you liquify pig poop, mix it with the adhesives used for chemical weapons, and spray it wherever you want to have a show-stopper (around Sistani's house or mosque or whatever would be good) to a depth of at least six inches. It should have the consistency of cream, so it will ooze under doors and such. Because of the adhesive, it would stick to everything and everyone who touched it--sort of an "anti-Midas touch."
It may sound funny, but I'll bet with a firehose full of Cube's Famous Pig Poop Recipe aimed at the right targets, we could gain a lot of cooperation from all sorts of a** h****.
Posted by: cubed at April 17, 2004 6:22 PMGive Sistani the "Taliban Ultimatum". Surrender Sadr or we consider you the enemy by harboring terrorists/murderers and we will attack, clear and succeed.
Posted by: Max Darkside at April 17, 2004 7:28 PMIs Sistani the new commander in chief of our armed forces?!
If we listen to this illiterate muslim fanatic,if we allow muslims to kill our soldiers and get away with it,just because an ayatollah said so,we desearve to lose the war.
This man is one of Islam's top clerics and someone who has achieved the very pinnacle of Islamic Holiness.. Take a clos look. Can't you just see in his face pure 'holiness' and see in his eyes all the love he has for his fellow man?
Posted by: Mahdi Al-Dajjal at April 18, 2004 5:07 PMAnd another thing.. If I saw this guy walking down the street I'd take out my mace and cross to the other side. Also, I'd be damn sure not to bend over to pick something up with him behind me..
Posted by: Mahdi Al-Dajjal at April 18, 2004 5:12 PMWhy are they so ugly? Do they get special training for this? Can you imagine a mother being proud of this? No wonder they want to blow themselves up!
Posted by: Mustapha Burger at April 18, 2004 6:37 PMIs it just me, or does this guy look a lot like the emperor in "Star Wars"?
This is not a pretty man; and besides the fact that they must have been picked for the job after winning an "Ugly Contest," have you noticed how dead the eyes of these zombies are? I mean, when they blow themselves up, they aren't killing anything.
Posted by: cubed at April 18, 2004 10:19 PM
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