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Senior Iran cleric sez whacking embassies ok
2006-03-01
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 – A senior Iranian cleric has approved attacks on foreign embassies in Tehran over the publication of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European dailies, a website belonging to the office of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reported. “Muslims must take the most ferocious stance against insults to Islamic sanctities”, the senior cleric told Ayatollah Dorri Najaf-Abadi, the country’s Chief State Prosecutor, according to the Persian-language website Khedmat.

“If setting fire to embassies of countries that insult the Prophet aims to show that these countries no longer have any place in Islamic countries then this act is permissible”, the senior ayatollah was quoted as saying. “Anyone who dies in this path [of protests against the insults] is a martyr”, he said.

Khedmat did not name the senior Shiite religious leader, but Najaf-Abadi met and held talks separately with five senior ayatollahs in Qom on February 20. The ayatollahs, Moussavi Ardebili, Makarem Shirazi, Fazel Lankarani, Safi Golpayegani and Nouri Hamedani, unanimously condemned the cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Mohammad and described it as a “Zionist and Western conspiracy against Islam”.

“The support shown for the [cartoons] by the European Union and some European governments showed that this was not just an issue of journalism. But Muslims’ reaction was beyond expectation and it showed that Muslims have woken up and this is a great asset”, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi told the prosecutor, according to the government-owned ISNA news agency.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Attacks on embassies may and are normally considered de facto ACTS OF WAR, espec iff done with host nation/Govt approval. Iran, etal. can not give State andor Ideo-Faith-specific sanction to PC/PDeniable, individual acts of terror but then claim the State-Faith is NOT per se responsible. THE CLERIC > EITHER KILL US OR WE WILL KILL YOU, SURRENDER/CONCEDE AND WE MIGHT DECIDE TO SPARE YOU, .......ETC. AFTER ALL, CLINTONISM > FASCIST = LIMITED COMMIE LEFT/COMMIE-MAJORITY MAINSTREAM AMERIKANS WANT TO BE RULED BY ANYONE EXCEPT AN AMERICA, CORRECT!? MOTHERLY RADICAL ISLAM, ETAL. IS MERELY DOING WHAT AMERIKANS WANT ANYWAYS AND HELPING YOU DESTROY YOURSELVES AND YOUR COUNTRY FOR THE GOOD OF EVERYONE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-03-01 21:43  

#10  Senior American computer geek says whacking mosques okay from now on.
Oh yeah, clerics too.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-03-01 19:11  

#9  Lol, Barbara! :-)
Posted by: .com   2006-03-01 19:09  

#8  Does this really surprise anybody???
Posted by: bgrebel   2006-03-01 19:06  

#7  
Senior Iran cleric sez whacking embassies ok
Cool!

Let's start with yours. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-03-01 19:05  

#6  Mosques are the embassies of the Islamists.

Brilliant, BP. It's time to outlaw Islam in all countries that practice freedom of religion.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-03-01 12:11  

#5  Mosques are the embassies of the Islamists.

Let's take him at this word.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-03-01 11:23  

#4  Well we don't have to worry about that. I think any Zeropian nation that keeps an Embassy open in Iran is stone cold stupid. Iran has a habit of grabbing up people and holding them hostage. I Thinbk the Zeropians forgot that. I hope they burn a few and take some hostages. It will force things.

It's better sooner than later.
Posted by: SPoD   2006-03-01 01:06  

#3  I wonder how the nations of the remaining embassies in Iran will rationalize keeping them open.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-03-01 00:51  

#2  If all countries having embassies in Tehran closed them for a week in protest of this outrageous pronouncement, do you think they might change their minds. Probably not. You have to possess one before it can be altered.
Posted by: GK   2006-03-01 00:30  

#1  Well sure it is! Geez, wotta dumb question. Anything, anything at all, that advances the interests of mullahs and imams is specifically and automatically okey-dokey. Just ask 'em and they'll tell you. Why, they'll even dig up some Sura or something and "interpret" it for ya. Silly fucking infidels.
Posted by: .com   2006-03-01 00:16  

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