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Saudi Arabia’s top cleric says Iran’s leaders ‘not Muslims’
 [Siasat] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s top holy man is revving up the kingdom’s rhetoric against Iran, saying in comments published today that Tehran’s leaders are "not Moslems," in response to rancorous remarks from Iran’s supreme leader. The remarks by Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al Sheikh came a day after Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused Saudi authorities of killing Moslems injured during last year’s crush of crowds at the hajj pilgrimage. Their confrontational comments mark a sharp escalation in the countries’ faceoff as their spat plays out across the region. Khamenei, in remarks published on his website yesterday, said the "heartless and murderous Saudis locked up the injured with the dead in containers ‐ instead of providing medical treatment and helping them or at least quenching their thirst. They murdered them." Mostly Sunni Saudi Arabia and majority Shiite Iran back opposite sides of the wars in Syria and Yemen, and support opposing political groups in Iraq, Bahrain and Leb. In comments to the Makkah newspaper, the top Saudi holy man was quoted as saying that Khamenei’s remarks are "not surprising" because Iranians are descendants of "Majuws" ‐ a term that refers to Zoroastrians and those who worship fire. Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion predating Christianity and Islam and was the dominant religion in Persia before the Arab conquest. "We must understand they are not Moslems, for they are the descendants of Majuws, and their enmity toward Moslems, especially the Sunnis, is very old," the Saudi holy man said. The September 2015 stampede and crush of pilgrims killed at least 2,426 people, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count. Iran had the highest of corpse count of any country, with 464 Iranian pilgrims killed. Saudi authorities have not released any findings of their investigation into the hajj disaster. Preliminary statements suggested the crush was caused when at least two large crowds intersected. Khamenei also blamed Saudi Arabia for an earlier crane collapse in Mecca that killed 111 people, and urged Moslems around the world to reconsider Saudi Arabia’s custodianship and management of Islam’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina where the hajj is performed. He also said Saudi rulers promote sectarian strife and arm "wicked takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... groups" ‐ a reference to bully boy Sunni murderous Moslems who denounce other Moslems as heretics and non-believers. The two countries severed diplomatic relations in January after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Saudi Shiite holy man and angry Iranian crowds overran Saudi diplomatic missions. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-07 |
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