Saudi Religious Scholars Support Holy War

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Prominent Saudi religious scholars have called on Iraqis to support militants waging holy war against the U.S.-led coalition forces, saying fighting the occupation was a duty and a right.


In an open letter to the Iraqi people and posted on the Internet Saturday, 26 Saudi scholars and religious preachers stressed that armed attacks launched by militant Iraqi groups on U.S. troops and their allies in Iraq (news - web sites) were "legitimate" resistance.


The statement came as U.S. troops, backed by air and artillery power, were gearing up for a major assault on the militant stronghold of Fallujah.


The scholars — some of whom have been criticized in the past for their extremist views — issued a fatwa, or religious edict, prohibiting Iraqis from offering any support for military operations carried out by U.S. forces against militant strongholds.

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What are they supposed to do, stand around and watch us kill more innocent people in Iraq?

war on terror.

along came a spider..... damn.... I wonder how many people realize just how friggin serious this announcement really is??? This is a horrendous development... just horrendous... but not much more horrendous than what we are doing to the people in Iraq.... tit for tat.

It'll get worse ... much, much worse. There's absolutely no question about it.

Will they see the connection between the Saudi Royals and the US and rise up against the Saudi's?

It is difficult to obtain a lot of news on the problem, but occasionally word leaks out of armed attacks.

Bin Laden, of course, wants the current rulers out of there. He's probably more upset about them than about the Israelis or our presence in Iraq.

in not showing this special before the election. I'm going to try to catch it.

Bring down the Saudi Royals.

Does anyone really believe that any good will come of U.S. occupation of any part of the Mid/East?

Saudi Arabia used to finance the US debt.
Then Bush got in and started flinging money everywhere.
The Saudis tried to reel Bush in and he told them to hit the road.
So they did, in August 2001, and they took their money with them.
Next thing you know, Saudi Arabia is being blamed for 911 -- DESPITE THE FACT that several of the so-called hijackers have turned up ALIVE and one of them, Ameer Bukhari, was DEAD for one whole year (plane crash investigated by the FAA) bfore 911.
But when the neocons tried to go after Saudi Arabia, they found they had bitten off way more than they could chew. So they settled for bombing Afghanistan. Then they persuaded Bush to go after Iraq.

The first half of Murawiec's presentation reads calmly enough, echoing Fareed Zakaria's Oct. 15, 2001, Newsweek essay about why the Arab world hates the United States. Its tribal, despotic regimes bottle up domestic dissent but indulge the exportation of political anger; intellectually, its people are trapped in the Middle Ages; its institutions lack the tools to deal with 21st-century problems; yadda yadda yadda.
But then Murawiec lights out for the extreme foreign policy territory, recommending that we threaten Medina and Mecca, home to Islam's most holy places, if they don't see it our way. Ultimately, he champions a takeover of Saudi Arabia. The last slide in the deck, titled "Grand strategy for the Middle East," abandons the outrageous for the incomprehensible. It reads:
Iraq is the tactical pivot
Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot
Egypt the prize
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069119

Have you noticed the Anti-Egypt murmering?
No?
Soon it will rise to a cresendo,
right about the time the US attacks Saudi Arabia.

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I hear the sound of distant drums
Far away, far away
And if they call for me to come
Then I must go, and you must stay

I hear the sound of bugles blow
Far away, far away
And if they call, then I must go
Across the sea, so wild and gray

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Oh, how the self-righteous Americans do romanticize their wars! We've seen the handwriting on the wall about Saudi Arabia for a long time. If you thought bush's connection between Iraq and 9/11 was stupid, wait until you see the case he makes against Saudi Arabia.

when I hear that familiar phrase?

Seems it is used by those in power to manipulate people into disregarding what might be in their own best interests in favor of the interests of the ones calling for it.

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The scholars said their appeal was prompted by "the extraordinary situation through which the Iraqis are passing which calls for unity and exchange of views."

The scholars said inter-Iraqi fighting would cause "great damage to the Iraqis and give a free service to the Jews who are infiltrating into Iraq and to the coalition forces which exploit differences to consolidate their domination."

the last time I ran a trace on one
it led straight into Buckingham palace.

if Bush's strong words in his 2001 UN speech mean anything at all, then Saudi Arabia should obviously be categorized as a terrorist state.

then I remembered that our side is the "War on Terra"

are anywhere near to picking up a rifle and helping their brothers...as long as someone else does the dying, they're perfectly ok with it (much like our own chickenhawks)

is inevitable.

Fuckface is about to find out exactly what that means.

Too bad his twins aren't over there, proving his dedication to this sacred "war" of his. Too bad no Bush kids are over there.

This sonofoabitch has me rooting for a fatwa. Imagine that.

Colonel Gary Brandl of the United States Marine Corps commented:
"The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him."

See how fast the people we were meant to set free become "the enemy"?

So much for freedom and democracy. Those people were better off with Saddam Hussein in power.

Didn't our prez state that we would leave if the iraqis wanted us to leave?