Monday, July 16, 2007

I like this Fatwa!

Bahrain: Tension mounts with Tehran as Fatwa Issued for Shariatmadari's Death

Tehran -- The hasty visit to Bahrain by the Iranian foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, to try to defuse a diplomatic crisis between the two countries appears to have had little effect. Mottaki's weekend visit came after a newspaper article by the editor of a hardline Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, claimed that Bahrain is part of Iran and should be returned.

This comment has provoked uproar in the Gulf Arab kingdom. Bahrain gained its independence from Iran in 1975 wutg a referendum overseen by the United Nations.

The Bahraini press and the wider Arab media continue to accuse the Islamic Republic of "expansionist aims" and "continuing interference in the internal affairs of Muslim nations." For the daily al-Ayyam, "with the absurd pretext on Bahrain, the Islamic Republic has overstepped the red line." while Al Watan noted "Iran treats the Arabs worse than it does the Israelis." In Manama a fatwa, or religious edict, has been issued against Hossein Shariatmadari, the editor of Kayhan. The fatwa, issued by Jassem Saiidi, a Salafite cleric who also sits in the Bahraini parliament, condemns to death the newspaper's editor and anyone who approves and shares his claim on the tiny emirate

Also, if you're interested in cutting edge technologies by the diaper head mullahs, Check out Gateway pundit's report:

After the regime's great success in discovering a herbal cure for AIDS and making nuclear energy in the kitchen...Now the mullahs are ready to tackle cloning.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'll drink to that one fatwa

Anonymous said...

finally one reasonable fatwa! much better that the one for Salman Roshdi's head for the simple reason that he wrote a book, or the newest one in Egypt about men having to drink from their female coworkers milk so that they can be allowed to work in the same room!!! These Imams are losing their sense of humor. LOL