Friday, July 21, 2006

Unity?

Jihadists are split over the war in Lebanon and Israel. Excerpt from the International Herald Tribune:

A cleric in Saudi Arabia, Sheik Abdullah bin Jabreen, issued an edict that said of Hezbollah: "The support of that Shiite party is not allowed, and to supplicate for their victory and their establishment is not allowed. We advise the Sunni people to disown them, desert whoever joined them and to reveal the Shiite enmity to Islam and the Muslims."

A Shiite fighter wrote in response: "God damn this Zionist guy. He clearly supports the Zionists."

The two sheiks, like many Sunni militants, belong to the fundamentalist Salafiya branch of Islam, which regards Shiites as little better than non- Muslims. Salafist fighters have killed Shiites and desecrated their grave sites for centuries. Osama bin Laden is a Salafist, as was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who declared war on Shiites in Iraq and helped drag this country into its ever-widening cycles of sectarian bloodletting.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/21/news/jihadists.php

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