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| Sistani urges Iraq govt. to help Sunni tribes against ISIL |
| 2014-11-01 |
| [Iran Press TV] Iraq's most senior Shia holy man, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called on Baghdad to rush to the aid of the country's Sunni tribes in their fight against the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s. In a statement read out by an aide to Ayatollah Sistani in the holy city of Karbala after Friday prayers, the holy man pointed to the recent massacre of the Sunni Albu Nimr rustics in Anbar Province, saying, "What is required from the Iraqi government ... is to offer quick support to the sons of this tribe and other tribes that are fighting Daesh (ISIL) terrorists." "This will offer the opportunity to the other tribes to join the fighters against Daesh (ISIL)," he said. On Thursday the bodies of at least 220 men from the Albu Nimr tribe, who had been seized by the ISIL days earlier, were found in two mass graves. The Albu Nimr tribe has been resisting against the ISIL invasion since early October. The ISIL According to a report by the UN Security Council, thousands of foreign |
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