If You’re Wahhabi and You Know It…
An influential cleric of Saudi Arabia’s hardline Sunni school of Islam has denounced Shi’ite Muslims as “infidels” in a new religious edict that comes amid rising sectarian tension in the region.
“The rejectionists (Shi’ites) in their entirety are the worst of the Islamic nation’s sects. They bear all the characteristics of infidels,” Sheikh Abdel Rahman Al Barrak said in the fatwa, or ruling, distributed on Islamist Web sites.
“They are in truth polytheist infidels, though they hide this.”
You prepared to back that up, Abdel? There are more than a few polytheist infidels in Iran and elsewhere who would argue the point. And they’re going to have the bomb.
“The Sunni and Shi’ites schools of Islam are opposites that can never agree, there can be no coming together unless Sunnis give up their principles,” the fatwa said.
If you say so.