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Bosonic

(3,746 posts)
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:00 AM Jun 2014

Representative for Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric urges people to take up arms

Last edited Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:40 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Irish Independent

A representative of Iraq's most influential Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged people to take up arms and defend their country from insurgents.

Sheikh Abdulmehdi al-Karbalai was delivering the sermon at Friday prayers in the city of Kerbala.

Read more: http://www.independent.ie/world-news/middle-east/representative-for-iraqs-most-senior-shiite-cleric-urges-people-to-take-up-arms-30352137.html



Take up arms against Iraq 'terrorists': top Shiite cleric Sistani

(AFP)
Top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called Friday for Iraqis to take up arms against "terrorists" who have overrun swathes of the country in a major offensive.

"Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists, defending their country and their people and their holy places, should volunteer and join the security forces to achieve this holy purpose," his representative announced on his behalf during Friday prayers in the city of Karbala.

"He who sacrifices for the cause of defending his country and his family and his honour will be a martyr," he added.

The elderly Sistani, who rarely appears in public, is highly influential in the Shiite Muslim world and is adored by millions.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/arms-against-iraq-terrorists-top-shiite-cleric-sistani-101338066.html#PXzGfPn
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Representative for Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric urges people to take up arms (Original Post) Bosonic Jun 2014 OP
Not to worry Bill Kristol said in 2003 that sectarian violence along Shia v Sunni lines wouldn't ... Botany Jun 2014 #1
Kristo is a professional liar. sulphurdunn Jun 2014 #2
all the lives and money wasted on geroge w. morons* folly. Javaman Jun 2014 #3
" what I'm waiting for .... " Botany Jun 2014 #5
you know as well as I as long as the gilded age lasts that will never ever happen... Javaman Jun 2014 #6
this might be ..... Botany Jun 2014 #7
I'm as big a tinfoiler as the next... Javaman Jun 2014 #8
Maybe NRA will open offices all over Iraq cosmicone Jun 2014 #4

Botany

(70,501 posts)
1. Not to worry Bill Kristol said in 2003 that sectarian violence along Shia v Sunni lines wouldn't ...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 08:15 AM
Jun 2014

..... a problem.

Although he also said this in 2008, "Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single
Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now."

• 1 March 2003: "We talk here about Shiites and Sunnis as if they've never lived together. Most Arab countries have Shiites and Sunnis, and a lot of them live perfectly well together." Also: "Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more thoroughly than this one by this president." B. Kristol

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
2. Kristo is a professional liar.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 08:30 AM
Jun 2014

His job is to be wrong about everything and convince the rubes he's right. That's why mass media keeps asking him what he thinks.

Javaman

(62,528 posts)
3. all the lives and money wasted on geroge w. morons* folly.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:44 AM
Jun 2014

what I'm waiting for is when Iraq, after that puppet maliki is overthrown, nationalizes the oil industry.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
5. " what I'm waiting for .... "
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:36 AM
Jun 2014


They lied us into us into an unneeded war for oil and money and they need to
be held sccountable for their crimes.

Javaman

(62,528 posts)
6. you know as well as I as long as the gilded age lasts that will never ever happen...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:38 AM
Jun 2014

and if it does, it will be like when the put pol pot on trial, he died before they could convict him while he was alive.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
7. this might be .....
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:42 AM
Jun 2014

....

But I think Pol Pot's heart attack was pretty convenient.

Everybody needs to see Rachel Maddow's 2 shows on how we got into
Iraq (lies) and why we went there (oil).

Javaman

(62,528 posts)
8. I'm as big a tinfoiler as the next...
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 10:50 AM
Jun 2014

but asshole pot was in his 70's when he croaked. And given how he lived, it's really no surprise that he had a heart attack.

on edit: I believe the bombs will start flying as soon as the oil fields are threatened.

the contract workers have/are being evac'd, which means that there is a real threat that the oil fields maybe next on the hit list.

THAT is what I find very convenient about the sudden mention of helping out failure maliki with the use of drones or missiles.

this civil war has been going on a while now, but as soon as the moneyed interests are threatened, look out below!

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
4. Maybe NRA will open offices all over Iraq
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:50 AM
Jun 2014

promoting open carry, concealed carry, packing bazookas etc.

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