We're Muslims. We can't be blamed.

As always, Muslims can not be blamed for anything. They imposed a blockade
of the Tiran Straits in 1967 and threatened to annihilate the Israeli
population but it's not their fault. They periodically massacre Jews but
it's not their fault. 9-11 wasn't a Muslim terrorist action at all; it was
done by Zionists who planted lots of bombs in the World Trade Center towers
*before* the air hijackings.

Some Saudi muftis recently issued a fatwa calling for the destruction of
Shiite shrines in Iraq. A former high ranking Iranian official called for
the annexation of Bahrain. Who's to blame for all this? Why the Zionists of
course.

Decree for Destruction of Shiite Sites Devised by Zionists
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8605100255

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- The Fatwa for the destruction of Shiite's holy
sites and shrines has been made up by the Zionists and enemies of Islam,
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani
said.

Speaking in a meeting with Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia Seyed Mohammad
Hosseini in Riyadh on Wednesday, Madani warned that religious strife can
prevail in all Islamic countries and called on all political and religious
leaders as well as intellectuals to prevent such strife.

He said following the objections to the decree by Muslim scholars he has
asked all Islamic jurisprudents, the chief Mufti, the Supreme Council of
Muftis, the High Council of Judiciary and other religious scholars about the
source of the fatwa, "but all of them expressed surprise and said they were
not informed of such a decree."

The Saudi official further underlined that if such a fatwa exists, "it is
certainly a product of the Zionists and enemies of Islam."

For his part, the Iranian envoy pointed to the sensitive conditions
dominating the region, specially Iraq, and also the hazardous consequences
of sectarian and religious conflicts in that country, and said, "The
objections and protests raised by the great Islamic scholars and leaders
resulted from their actual concerns about the information obtained after the
explosion of the holy shrines of the Shiites' 10th and 11th Imams (in
Samara, Baghdad)."

"And if such plots are not prevented immediately, the Muslim world will
enter chaos," he added.

Hosseini reminded that the shrines of Shiites' Imams are sacred to all the
world Muslims, Shiites in particular, and described the explosion in the
shrines of the 10th and 11th Imams as an inhuman action violating all human
and legal rules and norms.

"Muslim scholars and people expected Islamic governments to strongly condemn
this crime," he concluded.
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Here's some more on the anti-Shiite fatwa that is supposedly a Zionist
creation:
http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2007/august-2007/saudi_fatwa_1807.shtml

A Shi'a-Sunni War of International Dimension Looms Ahead

By Safa Haeri
Posted Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Paris, First of August (IPS) A very dangerous fratricide war that can
enflame the whole of the Muslim world may take place if the Saudi Arabia?s
authorities do not oblige the country?s religious instances to immediately
withdraw fatwas by Wahabbi muftis ordering the destruction of all Shi?a
mosques and holly places in Iraq.

?Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and some other leading Wahhabi muftis have
reportedly endorsed a fatwa allowing for the destruction of Shi?ite holy
shrines of Imam Hoseyn (Shi?a?s third and most revered imam) and his brother
hazrat Abbas in Karbala, of their sister hazrat Zeinab in Damascus, Syria,
as well as Imam Ali, (the first Imam of Sh?ia Muslims), in Najaf, Iraq?,
both the official news agency IRNA and the English-language newspaper "Iran
Daily", published by IRNA, reported on Sunday 22 July 2007.
Saudi Arabia has been turned into a school for nurturing terrorism and
supporting the terrorists

In the decree first released before the second attack on Samarra shrines,
Wahhabis are asked to destroy all signs of "polytheism" in Iraqi cities, an
implicit reference to the Shi?ite shrines, Iran Daily further reported. "The
shrine of (Imam) Hoseyn in Karbala, as one of the main symbols of Shi?ites,
should be destroyed," the decree said.
Iranian religious circles reaction to the fatwa was crushing and ferocious,
describing the Wahabis as ?terrorists?, ?puppets of Americans and Israelis?,
in an obvious effort not to attack directly the Saudi authorities.

Iranian Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani, one of Shiite sources of
jurisprudence in the Holy city of Qom strongly denounced a religious decree
issued by some Saudi Mufties (religious figures) to destroy Shi?ate holy
sites.

Also, Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Hoseyn Nouri Hamedani
said in separate statements that the Saudi government is responsible for
stopping the extremist muftis from waging propaganda campaign against the
Infallible Household of Prophet Mohammad.

?Saudi Arabia has unfortunately been turned into a school for nurturing
terrorism and supporting the terrorists, promoting an inauthentic version of
Islam, and this recent verdict issued by Saudi terrorism worshiper Mufties
is strongly denounced", IRNA quoted a communiqu? issued by Ayatollah
Golpayegani's Office.

"The alert Muslims of the world, prominent Islamic World Alims, scientific
and university societies, elites, and statesmen of the important Islamic
countries should know that the dark minded, deviated Wahhabi sect has today
after a whole century of hatching anti-Islamic plots, got weaker than ever
before, and more ill-famed in the eyed of the world Muslims, which is the
reason why it has begun killing, massacring, destroying, and committing all
types of other corrupt behaviors", Safi Golpayegani has in the communiqu?
reiterated.

He adds, "The brutal acts committed by this corrupt clan has led to the
creation of a very negative image of Islam and the world Muslims in the eyes
of the world nations, horrifying and intimidating the innocent human beings,
while the dear Islam is the religion of peace, brotherhood, and
all-encompassing love of God for His entire creatures".

The Grand Ayatollah stresses, "This gang of the few that is most
unfortunately in charge of Islam's two holiest shrines today, has turned
those sacred places to the cradle for terrorism, exporting terrorists to
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and lately also to other countries, such as
Lebanon, Algeria, and wherever they can, in a bid to flicker the flames of
sectarian and civil wars here and there."

Iran's government spokesman Qolamhoseyn Elham said yesterday while
commenting on the Fatwa (religious decree) that the world's arrogant powers
are seeking to add fuel to sectarian and racial disputes among Muslims,
(religious order) by Wahhabites to demolish holy sites and shrines in Muslim
states.

"Such measures are taken outside the region," said the spokesman addressing
reporters at his weekly press briefing. Referring to the measures made by
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the spokesman said "Riyadh is itself under the
threats of seditious thoughts. If such thoughts are followed by terrorist
acts and violence, then it will be harmful to everyone".

In articles, Iranian pro-Government and official media, on the occasion of
the birthday of Ali, have reminded that from the start, the Sunnis have been
the ?usurpers? by naming Abou Bakr, the father of the prophet?s wife, as
successor to Mohammad instead of Ali, his uncle and son ? in ? law, and whom
the prophet had named as his successor.

In a coordinated, nationwide campaign, on Friday 28 July, a number of
leading Friday preachers from main cities attacked the ?heretic and
ignorant? Wahabbits and in order of not out rightly attacking the Saudi
authorities, avoiding an unwelcome tension with Riyadh, they instead focused
the muftis who, they claimed were ?puppets? of America, Israel, the world
imperialism and international Zionism ?who directed and dictated them the
fratricide fatwa aimed at dividing the Muslim world?.

?These little brained people, this nefarious sect is attached to the
imperialist and Zionism. These fatwas proves tht they are fabricated by the
world imperialism?, said Ayatollah Mohsen Mojtahed Shabastari, the
Representative e of the Leader for the Eastern Azerbaijan and the Friday
preacher of Tabriz, the capital city of this north-western province
bordering Turkey.

?One of America?s antagonistic policies against Iran is the encouraging the
fatwas of Wahabbi muftis against the Shi?as?, added Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi
Rahbar, of the central and historic city of Esfahan.

A group of university students rallied in front of Saudi Arabia's Embassy in
Tehran to protest against the recent fatwa of Saudi Wahhabi muftis who
called for the destruction of Shiite holy shrines in Iraq, Iran Daily
reported. Students held banners and asked Saudi officials to condemn the
move and apologize to Shiite Muslims.
The protestors voiced their readiness to protect the holy sites in Iraq and
signed a petition demanding the permission of Iranian and Iraqi officials to
protect the holy sites.

Relations between Tehran and the six-member (Persian) Gulf Cooperation
Council had received a serious blow after a high-ranking Iranian
intelligence officer appointed by Ayatollah Ali Khameneh?i as the Chief
Editor of the radical daily ?Keyhan? two weeks ago week detonated a
bombshell by reminding readers that Bahrain, ?an Iranian Province, had been
separated from the mother land by a treacherous agreement imposed by the
Anglo-Americans on the former Shah of Iran?. ?Although I expressed a
personal view, but even today, many Iranians, as well as Bahrainis, consider
Bahrain as belonging to Iran?, Mr. Hoseyn Shari?atmadari, reiterated in a
interview with the London-based, Saudi-owned newspaper Al Sharq al Awsat, a
daily that often the Iranians describes as ?pro Zionist?.

Despite repeated protests from Manama and other GCC members demanding Tehran
?clarifications? and a formal apology, Iranian authorities took no action
against the article of Keyhan, as it was written by a close advisor to the
Leader, stating that the item had been ?his personal view and based on
existing historic facts?. This was also the point Iranian Foreign Affairs
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the Bahrainis when he hastily visited
Manama to assure them that the incendiary article was not Tehran?s official
policy.

The GCC media have gone on the offensive, describing Iran as an "enemy of
God and Islam", "worse than the infidel West", and an "enemy of Arabs", and
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as an "innocent dictator".

In response, the Iranian pro-Government media accused the Kuwaiti leadership
of complicity in Iraq's invasion of Iran in 1980 and the Saudi government of
tacitly endorsing the blistering anti-Shi'ite fatwa (religious decree) by
the Saudi clergymen.

?Why the GCC refuse to accept the historic fact that Bahrain belonged to
Iran and was detached from mainland by a shameful act worked out by the
Americans and the British that the Islamic Republic had the honesty to
accept the fait accompli, why when the GCC claims the ownership of the three
Iranian Islands of the Persian Gulf (Abou Moussa and the greater and Lesser
Tumbs), why when Iran alone stands up to the American and Israeli plots and
manipulations and also defends by all means the rights of the Muslim people
of Palestine, it is not acts against the unity and brotherhood among all
Muslims, but an article by Keyhan based on facts is trouble-making and
dividing the Muslims?? Mr. Shari?atmadari charged in response to the attacks
by the GCC and other Arab press.

The article was reflecting Iranian officials and media about the negative
role of Saudi Arabia, stressing that according to the latest report by US
military, more than 60% of the foreign fighters are Saudi nationals and
several thousand of them are in US custody in Iraq.

Bush's administration say that of an estimated 60 to 80 foreign fighters who
enter Iraq every month, nearly half come from Saudi Arabia.

?Officials in President George W. Bush's administration also say that of an
estimated 60 to 80 foreign fighters who enter Iraq every month, nearly half
come from Saudi Arabia and the Saudi leadership has not done enough to
counter the influx?, the New York Times said, adding that Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates planned to raise
Washington's concerns in a visit next week to Saudi Arabia, the paper said.

Recently, Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad, a native of Afghanistan, until recently the
US ambassador to Baghdad, protested to the Saudis over fake documents
distributed in Baghdad which claimed Mr. Nouri Al Maliki was an Iranian
agent and had tipped off the radical Shi?a cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, about a
US crackdown on his Madhi army militia.
The Bush administration has refrained from publicly criticizing its
long-time ally over Iraq and has instead blamed Iran and Syria for fomenting
violence and sectarian divisions.

"What would happen if, instead of Saudis, these suicide bombers were from
Iran?" an Iranian parliamentarian recently asked reporters when he accused
the US of duplicity and double standards in turning a blind eye to Saudi
Arabia's subversive role, Mr. Kaveh Afrasiabi, an Iranian scholar and
political scientist teaching in American and Tehran universities quoted a
Tehran University political scientist as having said recently. "It is not
just the Saudi kingdom, the whole Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] states run
by oil sheikhs are wary of an Arab democracy blossoming in Iraq", he added,
in an article in the Hong-Kong-based Asia Times Online.

Most Iranian and Western political analysts are in agreement that the Saudis
do not want to see democracy being installed in Iraq, where the Government,
the Parliament, the presidency and most important political parties are
closer to Tehran than Arab capitals.

Generally, Sunni Arab states are convinced that a stabilised Iraq under a
Shi?a Government would encourage Shi'ite minorities all over the oil-rich,
strategic Persian Gulf region.

To get support from international organisations, religious instances and
leading personalities condemning the incriminating fatwas, Iranian grand
ayatollahs decided to mandate former president Mohammad Khatami, who now
leads the International Centre for Dialogue Among Civilisations and
Religions in Tehran, to go on an international tour, meeting influential
people in the Vatican, Church of England, Muslim leaders etc...

A moderate middle-ranked cleric, Mr. Khatami, during his eight years of
presidency from 1997 to 2005, made a great impact on most world?s political
and religious leaders and proposed to the United Nations his project of
?dialogue among civilisations? as opposed to Samuel Huntington?s famous ?The
Clash Of Civilisations?. In a meeting with the Saudi Culture Minister Ayad
Adnan, Iranian Ambassador to Riyadh, Mr. Mohammad Hoseyni has warned against
the dangers of the fatwas for the whole Muslim word, urging him to take
?appropriate measures?. ?The protests by our higher ranking ulemas and marja?s
are based on documents
(obtained) after the attacks of the Asgari shrines (in the city of Samara,
last February)?, Mr. Hoseyni observed.

However, the Minister, quoted by the official Iranian news agency IRNA on
first of August 2007, has categorically rejected that any of the Saudi
muftis have issued such rulings.

?I have asked all our muftis, the higher Council of the Saudi Muftis, the
Judiciary, and all have expressed surprise?, he told the Iranian diplomat,
adding that ?if such things exist on Saudi muftis websites, it must be the
work of the enemies and Israel?. ENDS SAUDI FATWA 29707



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