In the Name of Peace and Brotherhood
Whoops, fatwa number three in an odd litany of such rulings all issued in an heroic effort to instill confidence and enhance Iran's status throughout the world, most particularly in the Western world, that theirs is a religion of peace and goodwill to all. Not that we ever doubted, for how could we? We have read, been told time and again that Islam celebrates good will between neighbours, that Islam is a religion of peace.And let's face it, there have been a goodly number of occurences in this weary world of ours whereby Muslims have aptly demonstrated to an unbelieving world that we have every reason to trust, respect and celebrate the Muslim presence, both throughout the world and within those fortunate countries of the world, secular-democracies in particular, which have welcomed Muslims as citizens and clasped their new citizens to their collective, trusting bosoms.
Under Mahmoud Alimadinejad influential clerics have now brought into question the legitimacy of Iran's traditional stand that Shariah law forbids the use of nuclear weapons. One can easily understand the rationality of the traditional stand, for in a theocracy, obedient to the voice of God who espouses peace and good will toward neighbours the use of an atom bomb might conceivably give pause for second thought. But who are we to judge? The potential recipients of such an unsought gift perhaps, but not the ones who write the rules for Muslims, right?
Consequently, these highly respected spiritual leaders have issued a holy order approving the use of atomic weapons against Iran's enemies. Enemies? How to define? Any individuals, groups, counter-religions, countries who fail to completely offer obeisance to the holiness of The Prophet, Allah, its devout adherents? That's a whopping parcel of humanity, to be sure. Why hold these eminent beings and non-beings up to question, never mind derision? Good question, something to do with hypocrisy, perhaps? Unfair too, but then who ever claimed life is fair.
Fairness is something an embattled population has seen little of throughout the course of its short national history, alas. Funny thing, that; they're still able to find humour in the most unlikely of scenarios, and have never claimed ownership of the world's only religion, nor threatened to thrust humanity in atomic smithereens wholesale into the endless atmosphere. Wait a minute, this isn't about Israel is it? we're talking Iran, back on topic, please.
This isn't entirely tangential as consider this: in the Koran is it written that whosoever takes away one centimeter of land which rightfully belongs to Islam they will bring the dreadful wrath of Allah upon themselves. So there's little Israel, a miserable transgressor, and there's the United States, transgressing like crazy in Iraq, Afghanistan (in their mad delusion imagining themselves to be liberators, bringers of justice and future peaceful prosperity) and there's also all those other European countries, along with the many and varied democracies all of whom bleed Islamic countries for their precious, life-enhancing oil. Dirty brutes all. Don't ask about your futures.
Well, I suppose, nuclear weaponry was kind of around the corner, if you think about it. This is, after all the theocracy that idolizes all those scary Ayatollahs, one of whom justified, in the name of Allah, the use of suicide bombers against "enemies of Islam". Come to think of it, that may just explain why these paranoid Islamists have been so busy blowing one another up, Sunni and Shia, along with their sacred mosques: because they somehow recognize one another as being "enemies of Islam". Makes a kind of convoluted manaical sense doesn't it?
Okay, that was that, now there's fatwa-the-most-recent. The latest news blast out of Iran has senior clerics giving the thumbs-up to attacks on foreign embassies in the country. Recompense, if you will, for these countries' implications in the publishing of those pathetic white elephants, the infamous cartoons.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Didn't mean to upset you. We'd like to be friends? Can we talk?
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, February 28, 2006
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