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Saudi opposition clerics make sectarian call to jihad in Syria
Reuters ^ | October 5, 2015 | Angus McDowall

Posted on 10/05/2015 7:33:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Dozens of Islamist Saudi Arabian clerics have called on Arab and Muslim countries to "give all moral, material, political and military" support to what they term a jihad, or holy war, against Syria's government and its Iranian and Russian backers.

Although the clerics who signed the online statement are not affiliated with the government, their strong sectarian and anti-Christian language reflects mounting anger among many Saudis over Russian and Iranian involvement in Syria's civil war.

Russia last week started air strikes against Syrian opposition targets that it describes as aimed at weakening the jihadist Islamic State group, a move Riyadh has denounced. The clerics' statement compared it to the Soviet Union's 1980 invasion of Afghanistan, which prompted an international jihad.

"The holy warriors of Syria are defending the whole Islamic nation. Trust them and support them ... because if they are defeated, God forbid, it will be the turn of one Sunni country after another," the statement said.

Riyadh, along with Turkey and other Gulf states, is a main supporter of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, backed by Iran and Russia, but it is also worried about the rise of jihadist groups such as Islamic State among the opposition....

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; isis; islam; jihad; koran; middleeast; russia; saudiarabia; syria
It's like reading the last book of the bible.
1 posted on 10/05/2015 7:33:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, the other curled, pointy toed satin slipper just dropped.


2 posted on 10/05/2015 7:36:56 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Obamacons: The degenerate and venomous issue born of intimacies between Obama and neocons.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good, maybe putin can keep the jihadi terrorist occupied for a while.


3 posted on 10/05/2015 7:38:47 PM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just think how many of those ISIS turds must be getting zapped to get this level of a coordinated reaction so quickly.

Hurry McCain! Hurry Obama and Obamacons! Your petrodollar superiors have whistled for you dogs!


4 posted on 10/05/2015 7:39:05 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Obamacons: The degenerate and venomous issue born of intimacies between Obama and neocons.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Perhaps they can all get in a miles long caravan of white pickups and come to the aid of their friends. I understand traveling like this makes you immune to airstrikes, from US aircraft anyway.


5 posted on 10/05/2015 7:40:27 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Psalm 144

“Just think how many of those ISIS turds must be getting zapped to get this level of a coordinated reaction so quickly.:

Exactly.

This is how I know 0bama is lying when he says Russia is being ineffective.


6 posted on 10/05/2015 7:42:37 PM PDT by wrench
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Get over it already-—It’s always been a sunni-shia thing.


7 posted on 10/05/2015 7:42:48 PM PDT by timlilje
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To: Psalm 144

Well now Cousin it seems we need to look at Types of your Muslim type folks, they izz not all created quite so alike..

And they is not the kine to invite each other ta bar b ques and such like...

Unless they is a cookin one of the Enemy, that is allowed and even promoted in their “Faith”

Now them High falootin Sheikhs is a rattlin their Rhino Horn handle daggers as well as worrying about all them folks they has imported to do their stuff...

Migrants, no rights, near slave conditions at times...

That pot is a boilin too..

And them Yemen boys is raisin a ruckus too...

Somebody shoots more than Putin or gets stupid (my bet is on Val Jar with her hand up Bammys back) and Israel is involved...

Bad Medicine VJ, wrong choice...

Watch and See...


8 posted on 10/05/2015 7:43:50 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What took them so long, with this bloody mess happening virtually one or two sand dunes away? Isis must finally be effecting oil prices or adding to production costs.


9 posted on 10/05/2015 7:45:14 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: timlilje

Geez. Try that here and find the that majority of 80 million gun owners pointing in their direction if the history of foreign tyranny here is any indicator.


10 posted on 10/05/2015 7:46:56 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If youce, prepare for war.)
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To: wrench

{”This is how I know 0bama is lying when he says Russia is being ineffective.”}

Obama acting all angry and upset after the Oregon shooting.
He doesn’t care about anyone’s death unless they are Muslim or black.
He was using his anger and upset over Russia’s attack on ISIS to promote his political agenda on guns.
It all came together.


11 posted on 10/05/2015 7:50:48 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner Down! Lots more to go....)
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Does Russia have any tall buildings like the twin towers ?


12 posted on 10/05/2015 8:03:56 PM PDT by butlerweave
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If a Russian passenger jet were hijacked, Putin would have it shot down before the landing gear was up.


13 posted on 10/05/2015 8:07:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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Obama successfully tricked the Russians into killing ISIS. I wonder what his plan is to get them to kill off Hezbollah in Lebanon, move into Gaza and then Sinai, and finally take over the Arabian peninsula?


14 posted on 10/05/2015 8:15:08 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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15 posted on 10/05/2015 8:18:38 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Saudi...

Now can we nuke em...huh, now?

16 posted on 10/05/2015 8:31:30 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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These guys are our allies.

How does Obama get us out of this mess he created?

17 posted on 10/05/2015 8:32:00 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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“How does Obama get us out of this mess he created?”

Obama never de-messes or cleans up anything, ever. He, like all liberals, is nothing but a political arsonist. He sets things on fire so as to benefit from the chaos. He could care less about the collateral damage, economic mayhem, lives lost, etc.


18 posted on 10/05/2015 9:53:40 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am rooting for both sides!


19 posted on 10/06/2015 5:47:42 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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