Shiite clerics are infidels

[w1z4rd]

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday criticised Arab and Muslim countries for their silence on calls by a senior Saudi cleric for Shiite scholars to be killed.

The Iraqi leader made the remarks a day after a massive bomb in the predominantly Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad killed 62 people and wounded 150.

"We have observed that many governments have been suspiciously silent on the fatwa provoking the killing" of Shiites, Maliki, who is also Shiite, said in an e-mailed statement.

He was referring to comments made by Mecca Mufti Sheikh Adil al-Kalbani last month to the BBC that "Shiite clerics are infidels."

"The Shiites have no right to be represented in the (Saudi) senior scholarly committee," Kalbani said.

"The Shiite public, it's a matter of discussion (as to whether they are infidels). Shiite clerics are definitely infidels, without question."

According to Islam, it is permitted to kill infidels and not have to pay the victim's family blood money.

"The rejectionists (Shi'ites) in their entirety are the worst of the Islamic nation's sects. They bear all the characteristics of infidels," Sheikh Abdel-Rahman al-Barrak said in the fatwa, or ruling, distributed on Islamist Web sites.

"They are in truth polytheist infidels, though they hide this," it said, citing theological differences 14 centuries after the death of the Prophet Mohammad, such as reverence of shrines which followers of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi school consider abhorrent.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29791215.htm

Will both schools of thought be able to live together?

What are most South African Muslims?

 

[Alan]

This is what Sufferwell calls resisting American imperialism lol

I'd guess S.A Muslims are predominantly Sunni

 

[killadoob]

Well what has America done for Iraq since toppling saddam except turning the country into a war zone? O wait oil is sold in dollars again.

Both sides want control of Iraq and Shiites out number sunni's or am i mistaken?

 

[Albereth]

Well what has America done for Iraq since toppling saddam except turning the country into a war zone?

It stopped the government loons from killing the locals and handed that responsibility to the religious loons.

 

[porn$tar]

Isn't this like genocide?

 

[Albereth]

Isn't this like genocide?

Only to sane people.