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2006-03-20 Iraq
Just how moderate is the Grand Ayatollah Sistani?
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Posted by Angineting Craiting9627 2006-03-20 18:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 That was my link. I guess it got sinktrapped, somehow.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-20 19:49|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2006-03-20 19:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a faithful rendering of Islamic beliefs. Why does this make Sistani any more or less a moderate?
Posted by Iblis">Iblis  2006-03-20 20:50||   2006-03-20 20:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Sistani’s stated view that non-Muslims should be considered in the same category as “urine, feces, semen, dead bodies, blood, dogs, pigs, alcoholic liquors, and “the sweat of an animal who persistently eats [unclean things].”

Bah! I've been called worse.

The only democracy the United States should be building is one based on liberty, equality, the inherent dignity of all human beings, and the conviction that authority to rule is reposed in the people rather than in some external theological or political force.

And that, right there, is the deal breaker for these wingnut fundamentalists. It is affront to all they believe in to even remotely consider that mere mortals can possibly rule themselves as good or better than the word of God as put down in the Koran.

This is why democracy is seen as the sworn enemy of Islam. It is time for us who believe in democracy to understand that Islam is the sworn enemy of representative elected government by the people, for the people and of the people.

The sooner we get over these notions that Islam is in any way compatible with progressive self-government, the sooner we'll be able to fight the war that is truly needed to eliminate this vicious threat to human freedom. Sistani can blow me.
Posted by Zenster 2006-03-20 21:13||   2006-03-20 21:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Surprise meter.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-20 22:18||   2006-03-20 22:18|| Front Page Top

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