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Iran’s Supremo: ISIS and USA have common goal “to create a war in Muslim world”

Jun 21, 2014 11:09 am By Robert Spencer

ayatollah-ali-khamenei.jpg?w=620He might be right about the Sunnis of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, whom he terms “takfiris” — that is, Muslims who declare other Muslims to be infidels. But he is certainly incorrect about the U.S., which is so far from trying to create a war in the Muslim world that it is still fondly hoping that Muslims will “overcome” the Sunni-Shia division — as Condoleezza Rice put it in 2007.

“Iran Supreme Leader’s Twitter Account Warns Of ‘War In Muslim World,'” Reuters, June 19, 2014:

DUBAI (Reuters) – A Twitter account Iran experts believe is run by the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in comments apparently inspired by Iraq’s turmoil, accused Sunni militants on Thursday of wanting to bring about a war in the Muslim world.

Shi’ite Iran has been alarmed by rapid territorial gains made in Iraq by the militants of the ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL), which seeks a caliphate ruled on medieval Sunni Muslim precepts in Iraq and Syria.

ISIL’s advances pose a threat to the survival of Shi’ite-majority Iraq as a united country.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite-led government, an ally of Tehran, has called for military help from the United States, Iran’s longtime foe.

A message posted in English on the Twitter account @khamenei_ir said the Sunni militants wanted to foment distrust between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims, a goal they shared with “arrogant” powers – normally an Iranian codeword for the United States and its Western and Israeli allies.

The message referred to “takfiri” militants – Sunnis who proclaim followers of other sects of Islam to be infidels and therefore legitimate targets of holy war.

“Muslims should be aware of Takfiris and arrogant’s common goal to create a war in Muslim world – both Shias and Sunnis should be vigilant,” it said.

“The great danger of the Takfiris is not about killing innocents, although that’s a crime, a big crime.

“Yet greater danger of Takfiris is to make Shias and Sunnis distrust one another; this is a really great danger which fulfils goal of arrogants.”…

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  1. Wolfenberry says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:16 am

    If only the dreaded Ayatollah Khomeini of 1979 had known that his successors would be “tweeting”….. that’s so cute!

  2. Buraq says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:50 am

    Then Khamenei’s Shia and the Sunni component of Islam could easily poke a finger in Uncle Sam’s eye by agreeing to embrace each other in eternal brotherhood. That’d show the Great Satan that all his dastardly plans to split the Islamic Ummah are doomed to failure. Yeah?

    The logic is simple, but there’s just one problem: 1,300 years of hatred and blood letting between the Shia and Sunii factions of the the most violent ideology ever to be loosed on planet Earth.

    Clowns! A plague on both their circus tents!

    • John Haller says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 12:26 pm

      Allah’s curse is upon them. It’s called Islam!

    • Burak says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 10:21 am

      Clones!

  3. John C. Barile says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:51 am

    Sign me up as another agent of world arrogance.

    “Let’s you and him fight,” as we say.

  4. Uri says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:56 am

    Shias always always talk about unity among muhammadans. Being fewer in number – it’s a case of wishful thinking.

    I got into a long conversation with some Iranian Shias at the local dispensary – and all I heard about was this great reconciliation of Muslims that was just over the rainbow. This was 2 months ago.

    Next time. I see ’em , I gotta ask: “How’s that Muslim unity thing working out

  5. Jay Boo says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:57 am

    The Shias must have known that the conflict with Sunnis would come to this ever since their original subjugation to the shackle of Islam.
    As stated in the article
    “Sunnis who proclaim followers of other sects of Islam to be infidels …”
    It probably started with the first part of the shahada (“There is no god but Allah”) which reportedly predates Islam (see link)
    The key word in this sentence is not Allah but “no”

    The sentence is not so much focused on Allah being the only true god as it is focused on claiming that all other beliefs are of the infidel.
    Hence, the butcher knife bloodbath known as Islam was born with the addition of ‘Muhammad is his messenger.’

    http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2012/10/what-is-shahada.html

  6. Kepha says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 11:58 am

    All the more reason to stay out of the looming Sunni-Shi’ah war.

    At one point, they were talking about how stopping ISIS might be a way the USA and Iran could talk with each other; now, it seems, Iran remembers that the USA is the Great Shaitan, even greater than Sunni militants. Further, Khameini’s remarks show how blind Muslim leaders are to their own failings and shortcomings. Whenever things go wrong, they need to find a convenient external scapegoat–and their scapegoats of choice are either the USA or the JOOOOOOZ or both.

    However, Mr. Turbanandgrizzlybeard has a point. The O, the supposedly “most brilliant POTUS in US history”, has blown hot and cold on groups like ISIS. In the Arab Spring, US policy was firmly behind the MB, Libyan rebels, and whatnot; we were exploring ways to intervene on the side of the MB and Qaida rebels in Syria until the O “brilliantly” backed himself into a verbal corner over chemical weapons, until Putin had to rescue him; and now we are scared silly of the advancing ISIS forces in Iraq.

    However, I’m sure that if we parachuted a Social Democrat Belgian or Spanish judge into the war zone waving the appropriate writs, both sides would stop shooting and there would be peace. Or, perhaps, we could use Mr. Kerry. [sarc]

  7. Steffen Larsen says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    We are told again that “persecution is worse than slaughter”. What is harmful to Islam is more important than mere ethics.

  8. RCCA says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    If he could only somehow arrange for the US to do something terrible which would unite the Muslims…. hmmmm…..plotting ensues.

  9. Wellington says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I prefer Muslims scowling, not smiling. A smiling Muslim (as here) has an extra creepy aspect to it.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 2:14 pm

      Scowling Ayatollah Khomeini was much nastier than this guy it seems yet mobs of devout Iranian Muslims publically stripped him naked and knocked him out of his coffin just to get a souvenir piece of his burial clothes.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jun 21, 2014 at 2:17 pm

        Khomeini funeral
        Mob stripping Khomeini near naked for souvenirs of his burial cloths knocking him out of his coffin

        ALL CAUGHT ON VIDEO
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k7mpnPJWDo
        In a foreign language (graphic)

    • bettina says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 2:25 pm

      That’s so totally right-on, Wellington — I felt it too, the disturbing dissonance of lying smiles on the faces of these sinister muslims. Creepy is indeed the right word.

    • Champ says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 4:27 pm

      I don’t know about anyone else, but I prefer Muslims scowling, not smiling. A smiling Muslim (as here) has an extra creepy aspect to it.

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Yeah I agree, Wellington! …and your comment is really funny even though it’s so true, lol!

      Hope you and your wife are well 🙂

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 5:50 pm

      ”A smiling Muslim (as here) has an extra creepy aspect to it.”

      Yes, Wellington, I agree. One can imagine that same smile as he sentences some hapless gay person, or an ‘adulterer’ to death. Ugh.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 11:24 pm

      @Wellington
      Smile theory
      There is no joy allowed in Islam
      So when an adult Muslim smiles it is creepy indeed.

      In the following Youtube video from Kenya most of the words are not English and yet it is obvious that the singer (evangelist Anastasia Karaja) is not Muslim because of her genuine smile.

  10. Mirren10 says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    “Muslims should be aware of Takfiris and arrogant’s common goal to create a war in Muslim world – both Shias and Sunnis should be vigilant,” it said

    “Yet greater danger of Takfiris is to make Shias and Sunnis distrust one another; this is a really great danger which fulfils goal of arrogants.”…

    Is this repulsive old hyena trying to pretend shias and sunnis haven’t been at each other’s throats since the death of the vile mohammed ? For at least a **thousand** years ? Long before the US came into existence ?

    And does he think other mohammedans aren’t aware of this ? And that people who’ve studied mohammedan history aren’t equally aware of this ?

    This is so typically mohammedan ; refuse to take responsibility for their own actions, assume everyone else are fools who can’t read and observe, and deflect their own evil and viciousness on to others.

    Psychopaths and sociopaths do the same.

  11. Angemon says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    ““Muslims should be aware of Takfiris and arrogant’s common goal to create a war in Muslim world – both Shias and Sunnis should be vigilant,” it said.

    “The great danger of the Takfiris is not about killing innocents, although that’s a crime, a big crime.

    “Yet greater danger of Takfiris is to make Shias and Sunnis distrust one another; this is a really great danger which fulfils goal of arrogants.”…”

    Yeah, because sunnis and shias have always been bosom buddies before Israel and the US even existed… FFS, the concept of “taqyyia” was invented by shias to escape from sunni persecution. Hey towelhead, can you and Al-Qaradawi agree on who was the rightful successor of muhammad?

  12. Lawrence says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    Let us wipe away the complications. While the world is complex that it is so need not concern us. If this man and his forces and followers are our enemy then destroy them. If he is someone else’s enemy AND not ours than withdraw.

    It is not stupidity to admit that all of our soldiers died in vain IF they died in vain. Surely if they did die in vain there is no good reason to add to it more of us who have to and will die in vain.

    The only issue is this – who will decide. And that is what the ballot box is for.

  13. tpellow says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    “Arab Winter is coming to Baghdad”

    http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Analysis-Arab-Winter-is-coming-to-Baghdad-359348

  14. tpellow says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    “The foreigner’s gift: Why Iran would gain from US military intervention in Iraq”

    http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2014/06/21/foreigners-gift-iran-gain-us-military-intervention-iraq/?

  15. Myxlplik says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    Our commitment to democracy in the Middle East such that it really let us know what is in the hearts and minds of Muslims.

    In that regard our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan have been worth every drop of blood and dime. We can be proud of our efforts, we truly did put everything on the line, but the gig is up… the question is now that “we” know… what next? Americans didn’t want ISIS, sure the stupidity of wanting democratic Muslims would naturally lead to groups like Hamas and ISIS and the rise of the Caliphate, but I guess we just had to see, because nobody would believe Muslims were this retarded without seeing it. Now we see it.

    • voegelinian says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 7:12 pm

      “Now we see it.”

      Well, if your “we” is just a wee part of the West, then yes; but I’m afraid the majority remains weak in the head about the problem.

  16. mortimer says

    Jun 21, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    The ayatollahs of Iran have no lesson to learn about ARROGANCE!

    “Ayat-allah” means the ‘miracle of Allah’ or the ‘holy verses of Allah’. The ayatollahs are BETTER than the Koran or at least equal to the Koran. The ayatollahs can CREATE TRUTH! And the ‘truth’ they create changes as needed!

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 21, 2014 at 9:02 pm

      To partner with Allah is a sin in Islam (in theory)
      To not partner with Allah is a sin in Islam (in reality)

      Islam teaches that Truth is what ever a Muslim wants it to be.

  17. citycat says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:17 am

    Arrogance comes before such a smile.
    They say when two boxers meet before the fight, the one that smiles loses.
    I see a lot of muslims with that type of smile, usually ones higher in the hierarchy.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 12:21 am

      Reza Aslan
      for example

  18. Jay Boo says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:31 am

    Maybe we could swap Ayatollah Khamenei for John Kerry as Secretary of State.
    That would really piss off the Iranian Regime and cause some turmoil here in the US as well with the Sunni inspired Pres. Obama.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 22, 2014 at 12:32 am

      Secretary of State Ali Khamenei
      VS
      Ayatollah John Kerry

      • Champ says

        Jun 22, 2014 at 1:00 am

        LOL!!! 😀

      • Will Doohan says

        Jun 22, 2014 at 2:40 am

        Steel Cage Death Match!
        Sunday! Sunday! …. bzzzzzrt … wait a minute…
        Friday! Friday! Friday!

  19. Andrew Peterson says

    Jun 22, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Well he’s right!

    So with 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11 being from Saudi Arabia, and none of them being from Iraq, without a single connection to Iraq or Saddam Hussein, the American imperialist system fooled so many to believing that this war in Iraq was for the safety and security of the American people and the world. When plans failed, the imperialist system aimed to fool people even more by saying it was for the freedom of Iraqis. All of which have been lies! Blatant lies that the misinformed members of society will foolishly believe. Those who submit to the lies of the State are no different than those who submit to the lies of religion.

    But let us allow Robert Spencer tell us what to think! A man who criticizes Islam, which everyone rightlyfully should, then takes another Abrahamic religion, which is just as bad in scripture and devoutly follows it. Hypocrisy at its finest.

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 am

      ”But let us allow Robert Spencer tell us what to think! A man who criticizes Islam, which everyone rightlyfully should, then takes another Abrahamic religion, which is just as bad in scripture and devoutly follows it. Hypocrisy at its finest”

      Oh, bloody hell, **another** arrogant and stupid atheist who makes his atheism into a religion.

      *I* am agnostic, but I have intelligence, and a critical faculty.

      ” … another Abrahamic religion, which is just as bad in scripture … ”

      There is violence in the Old Testament, yes. However, unlike the koran, it is **not** open ended, and does *not** mandate the same violence in the present day, which the Koran **does**.

      The New Testament, which describes the life of Christ, His death and Resurrection, and the spread of Christianity after that, has as it’s central commandment, the **Golden Rule**, which mandates that Christians **do unto others as they would be done by**.

      There is nothing in the New Testament that orders Christians to kill all unbelievers, and make the world submit to Christianity. Unlike the koran.

      ” … then takes another Abrahamic religion, which is just as bad in scripture … ”

      islam is **not** an Abrahamic religion.

      ” which is just as bad in scripture”

      I’ve already pointed out the violence in Christian scripture is confined to the Old Testament.

      Post again when you’ve found all those Christians who are busily carrying out the violence **described** in the Old Testament.

      **mohammedans** are busily carrying out violence, mayhem, murder and torture every day, as **mandated and ordered in the koran**.

      Atheists like you, with your witless attempts at moral equivalence, make me puke.

      Bugger off.

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