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Thursday, December 19, 2013

The Legitimacy of Bloodletting

An old Jewish aphorism counsels "from your mouth to God's ear", hoping that a prayer might be fulfilled. An innocent enough, and trustingly faithful expression. In the instance of Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Al-Haeri's statement that "fighting in Syria is legitimate" for Shiites, it might be useful to turn that phrase around to read "from God's mouth to your weapons".

"The battle in Syria is not for the defence of the shrine of Sayyidah Zaynab but it is a battle of infidels against Islam and Islam should be defended."
"Fighting in Syria is legitimate and those who die are martyrs."
Iranian Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Al-Haeri

"The effect on the ground could well prove as important as similar statements made by Sunni sheiks across the region six months ago."
"Religious justification for fighting jihad abroad has proven important in the past. And there's no reason why it won't in this case."
Charles Lister, visiting fellow, Brookings Doha Center

The killing spree an aghast international community is being exposed to through news reports and smuggled videos recounting the varied and dreadful atrocities and human rights abuses being committed by the Alawite regime of Syria's President Bashar al Assad and the opposition Sunni militias determined to rid the country of the presence of the ruling party, is one that has been condoned and encouraged by Muslim clerics.

That would be the highly respected religious figures of huge faith authority in the Muslim world, representing the two major schisms of Sunni and Shia Islam. One insisting that authority lies only in descendants of the Prophet Mohammad, the other claiming that descent is irrelevant for authority, and both belittling the other as heretics.

Their hatred for one another intense enough to temporarily cause them to overlook their hatred of despicable Jews and Infidels.

The Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Al-Haeri, whose wisdom dictates that Islam blesses those who embark on a mission of slaughter against those of their own faith, an absolute requirement reflecting their misdirection from the accurate version, speaks then, for Allah. God may be greatest, but evidently the Grand Ayatollah is no slouch either.

"Fighting in Syria is legitimate", he proclaims and a fatwa is born.

Bearing in mind that this Iranian holy man has his abode in Qom, the country's most holy site. And close to Qom is a mountain where another Ayatollah, this one the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, has seen to it that surreptitious burrowing activity was embarked upon to create an immense bunker wherein a nuclear installation was mounted.

All to the greater glory of Islam's Shia version of godliness. And now that Grand Ayatollah Kazem Husseini Al-Haeri has given his blessing and encouragement to further fomenting bloodshed in the name of all that is holy in Islam, avid jihadists eager to destroy the lives of other jihadists will take their leave of him and depart for Syria, a country that has become an abattoir.