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Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘blocking the path to Allah’ and bans pilgrims from going to Mecca

May 30, 2016 9:24 am By Robert Spencer

“Saudi Arabia is…blocking the path leading to Allah.” “Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitter rivals, seeing themselves as the leaders of Shia and Sunni Islam respectively.” Yet both Iran and Saudi Arabia practice a religion that our highest officials are on record multiple times insisting is un-Islamic and has nothing to do with Islam. This fantasy that prevails at the highest levels is crippling our ability to deal with the jihad threat. One cannot defeat an enemy that one does not understand, much less an enemy that one refuses to understand.

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“Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of ‘blocking the path to Allah’ and bans pilgrims from going to Mecca,” by David Blair, Telegraph, May 29, 2016:

Iran accused Saudi Arabia of “blocking the path leading to Allah” on Sunday when Tehran announced that its pilgrims would not perform the Hajj in Mecca this year.

If this ban is enforced, the annual Hajj in September will be the first in 30 years without any pilgrims from Iran, the largest Shia Muslim nation.

Iran and Saudi Arabia are bitter rivals, seeing themselves as the leaders of Shia and Sunni Islam respectively. Officials from both countries have tried to negotiate arrangements for Iranians to perform the Hajj this year, but without success.

The failure to reach agreement was because of “obstacles raised by the Saudis,” said Ali Jannati, the Iranian culture minister. The Iranian Hajj Organisation said: “Saudi Arabia is opposing the absolute right of Iranians to go on the Hajj and is blocking the path leading to Allah.”

Last year, 60,000 Iranians travelled to Mecca. But a stampede caused the death of 2,300 pilgrims, including 464 Iranians, leading Tehran to accuse the kingdom of being unable or unwilling to manage the Hajj safely.

Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic relations with its regional neighbour in January after a mob stormed and looted the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran, retaliating for the execution of a prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Among other counter-measures, Saudi Arabia banned Iranian airlines from entering its airspace. In addition, there are no Saudi diplomatic missions in Iranian where pilgrims could collect their visas….

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  1. David says

    May 30, 2016 at 9:35 am

    Is that big black cube thing the “test target” for the Navy’s next generation nuclear tipped cruise missile?
    COOL! Can we post the video for everyone to ENJOY?

    • Cr says

      May 31, 2016 at 2:47 am

      And who is gonna push the button¿there are many Muslims in the army. In addition although I hate Islam does not mean that they deserve to die for being Muslims. The error has been to allow Muslims come to the West and not banning Islam . We cannot live together.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 31, 2016 at 3:00 am

      David
      Don’t be duped.
      The words (Cool and Enjoy) do not belong in the same sentence as Nuke.

      • David says

        May 31, 2016 at 9:09 am

        My friend, what no one seems to realize is that ISLAM is nothing but SATAN WORSHIP! They are taught since birth to hate and murder any non-muslim! That cube is the epecenter of SATANS power on Earth. I would love to see it totaly evaporated. God will give every soul the chance to learn the truth and make their own choice. But untill that day comes, many more innocent lives will be lost to terror, torture, rape and murder at the hands of Satans own people, THE MUSLIMS!

        • rabrooks says

          May 31, 2016 at 3:03 pm

          You mean the moon-rock that they stole from pagans after they worshiped it for eons? So, what did it have to do with mudslimes anyway?

  2. Marty says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:11 am

    The best we can hope for is that Iran and Saudi Arabia go to war and completely destroy one another. One can dream.

    • Eu says

      May 30, 2016 at 10:36 am

      In iran lot of good people live. They are Persians and many are fed up with the Islamic tyranny. I trust Persian women . Saudi Arabia and all Sunni world (except perhaps Sunni Sufis and Kurdish) are fascist scum , worse than the Nazis.

      • Demsci says

        May 30, 2016 at 11:01 am

        Interestingly, in Israel National News, Mordechai Kedar tells us about the people of Khuzistan, former Arabistan, now Ahwaz, in Iran. A minority of Arabs, of 4,5 million (in a nation of # 80 million), who, despite being shiite, feel themselves oppressed and exploited, as much of the oil wealth of Iran is under their feet. And with ample reason!!!

        According to prof.Kedar, hundreds of Arabs were or are hanged, to discourage insurrection. The Arabs in Iran don’t prophit much from the oil-wealth, and moreover experience severe drought due to dam-building of the government to their disadvantage.

        Go figure. Well, if in spite of all that, these Arabs have no clue, and cling to Islam, can’t a person hold them responsible for that choice and at least finds comfort that Islamist intolerant theocrats fight and oppress each other, instead of tolerant democratic citizens?

        • Eu says

          May 30, 2016 at 12:02 pm

          The truth is that Islam has no remedy , no hope . There are groups of people trapped within these societies that can be released , so I do not want war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Many young Persians have parties at home , eager to freedom, many Kurds are not practitioners of Islam , are quite atheists. There are also the Zoroastrians , Christians , atheists, Muslims false … who are trapped . I do not understand is what we in Europe still receiving MOROCCAN by millions , it is suicide. Moroccans are hopeless , are lobotomized by Sunni Islam .
          Are equally mad Sunnis and Shiites but all Islamic terrorist groups are Sunni , all fools who will join isis, al qaeda, boko haram , abu Sayyaf … are MOROCCAN , Tunisians , Algerians, Egyptians , Syrians, Turkish …. all Sunnis … and all have the option to come to europe.
          hezbollah(shiie) is a threat to Israel but for now do not want a universal caliphate … for now …

    • Eu says

      May 30, 2016 at 10:42 am

      Most dangerous misfits and immigrants living in Europe are Moroccans, Algerians and Pakistanis. Nobody ever says anything of Morocco and has been exporting to Europe poison decades .

    • Carolyne says

      May 31, 2016 at 10:19 am

      If Iran and Saudi Arabia should go to war, we will actively participate on the side of Saudi Arabia. They own us. IMO there are few politicians who have not been paid off by the barbarians.

  3. will Rodgers says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:37 am

    The West is ill equipped to determine who is who in the muslim world of tribal distinctions. Let them do that. Our only mission is to seek out and destroy those committing egregious acts against humanity, and it does not require us to know a sunni from a shia to achieve that goal.

  4. Baucent says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:38 am

    A Saudi/Iran war is an intriquing possiblity. And the Iranians are likely to be stronger based on combat experience and size of their armed forces. Saudi Arabia has a smaller population as well and would be a tempting target for Iran’s mullahs; grab a major share of world oil reserves and the muslim holy places in one swoop. The House of Saud would collapse like a house of cards as they jet away to their mansions in London. I can’t imagine any of those playboy princes staying to fight.

    • SBJ says

      May 30, 2016 at 11:54 am

      Who’s Saudi going to get to replace all those tourists?

  5. Eu says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:51 am

    There is no comparison possible. Saudi Arabia is not a country . It is a family company that extracts oil using slave labor . The Saudis do not work , can not do anything , outsource everything.

  6. SD says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:05 am

    I think it’s time for Iran and Saudi Arabia to have a good punch out. Let them solve their differences 1 vs 1 and the United States should stay the fuck out of it. Whoever wins wins and whoever loses losses. I look forward to seeing those arrogant Saudis with bombed-out buildings and skin hanging off of their mangled bodies.

  7. Islam_Macht_Frei says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:28 am

    Thank God for the Sunni-Shia split, is all I can say…

    • Mockingjay says

      May 30, 2016 at 7:21 pm

      Yes – this article is refreshing.
      Only last week there was an item on the news about Iran proposing to make peace with the saudis – to be “strong together against the West”.
      Looks like that peace won’t come in a hurry.

  8. Westman says

    May 30, 2016 at 11:54 am

    A simple solution is for the Ayatollah to simply declare a new Mecca within Iran.

    A black meteorite could easily be purchased with oil revenue; only the Kaaba would be missing. We’ve located an inexpensive building that should suffice while the new facilities are being constructed:

    http://tinyurl.com/gwjmmnt

    • Eu says

      May 30, 2016 at 12:05 pm

      jajajajajaja ,

    • Jack Diamond says

      May 30, 2016 at 1:09 pm

      Karbala is the holy city for Shi’a some would like to see replace Mecca. I think you’ve got the right idea for depicting the throne they aspire to.

  9. sam says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:14 pm

    I have to agree with Iran on that. Saudi Arabia, however, should retaliate immediately by bombing Iranian nuclear facilities with help from the Sunni arab nations including ISIS.

  10. Angemon says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    Iran vs Saudi Arabia – whoever loses, we win.

    • Jay Boo says

      May 30, 2016 at 10:56 pm

      Martyrdom makes the tulips grow bright red.

  11. Guest says

    May 30, 2016 at 3:40 pm

    Maybe is we’re lucky they’ll destroy each other.

  12. Peggy says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:16 pm

    That would be ideal.

  13. Jay Boo says

    May 30, 2016 at 10:53 pm

    Help Wanted

    Allah the one and only and All Powerful Al-Qadir (القادر) has an urgent need for Shia Muslims to unblock the path to Allah. Apply at local Shia mosque to assist Allah in this very difficult task.

  14. Guest says

    May 31, 2016 at 1:59 am

    We should be so lucky.

  15. sinantara says

    May 31, 2016 at 2:38 am

    The last time the nominal Sunni and Arab Saddam Hussein and the fervently Shia Iranian Khomeini were slugging it out like two medieval potentates, they spend a million lives for nothing, including the lives of so many children partaking in suicidal human wave attacks. The mothers were told their sacrifices were not in vain because the children were now happily in paradise. Other countries stood on the sidelines silently cheering the slaughter on.

    But when Saddam invaded Kuwait, the US was invited to sacrifice its children too and although American soldiers were deemed good enough to die for oil, people like Osama were incensed that they were allowed to stand on holy soil. If Trump creates a furor because he says Muslims should be enter the US, nobody comments on the fact that no infidel is allowed to enter Mecca, and to Osama and his crowd, that limit is extended to all of the Arab Peninsula… Abu Bakar cleansed the land froerrm the Jews Muhammad did not care for to behead (probably he became soft on Jews because his Jewish wives… ).

    The Saudis did they condemn Osama? How thankful were the Kuwaitis? A lot of Saudis and Kuwaitis were involved in terror attacks against the US and the Saudis washed their hands. I would do that too, who told Bush to become a useful idiot? But perhaps oil has to do with the welfare and welbeing of America so the soldiers died for a cause. On the subsequent invasion of Iraq I don’t want to comment.

    Now, if Saudi Arabia goes against Iran, the Saudi’s have no chance, the Iranians will conquer Mecca and then create an international committee to guard the city for all Muslims like they often have said they would have like it. That will also be their revenge for the bloody subjugation and Islamization of Persia and all Shia will rejoice because Hassan and Hussein will be avenged. The Saudi’s however, will appeal to the US like they always do, to the Iranians the US is the Great Satan but to the Saudis the Great Useful Idiot… And the west? How does a drug or oil dealer consider the junkies?

    They will also appeal to the global Sunni community. Here in Indonesia Saudi money is floating around and suddenly the Shia are declared heretics and in Madura driven out of their houses… Jihadis will pop out of the woods in their hundreds of thousands and ISIS will suddenly become the Saudis savior. Russia will have to defend Iran… Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Stalin, they just would make a deal with the US to let the contenders fight each other to exhaustion and then take over but Putin is a little late on the stage of history and Obama is outside of history). But he will do what he can do. It is possible however that the Turks will think the turmoil a great opportunity to deal with the Kurds and will side with ISIS under the cover of siding with the Saudis and Sunnies, and so forth and so on. A Saudi Iran match may be an entertaining spectacle as long as it will not become a bar room brawl like in the movies… And if the US and Russia will attack each other because of a spat over who is Islamic Correct, that would be a tragedy, so lets hope McCain will have a stroke. That is an UnChristian wish so I want to add, and recovers after peace breaks out again.

  16. Ron Barak says

    May 31, 2016 at 8:06 am

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

  17. duh swami says

    May 31, 2016 at 10:41 am

    Maintaining purity…Mecca is closed to kuffar… To the Sunni Saudi, Shia is blasphemy, takfir and should be banned so as to not filthy up purity…

  18. Jerry says

    Jun 1, 2016 at 8:03 am

    Iran and Saudi Arabia fighting over islam, it’s like two idiot apes fighting over a poison bananna. And I had forgotten about that Stampede that killed so many. Islam is so full of murder and mayhem that it sort of blended right in. And I forget the details, didn’t that barbaric tragedy happen in the place where they throw stones at the devil?…..ha ha HAAAAA! I’m sorry, I couldn’t hold it in. Yeah, we want millions of these people in our nation. Please, give us more of this.

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