Posted on 01/08/2010 4:30:11 AM PST by nuconvert
Insulting remarks by a Saudi cleric about the most revered Shia cleric in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have strained relations between Baghdad and Riyadh.
In a Friday sermon in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, a leading Wahhabi cleric, Mohammad al-Ureifi, called Ayatollah al-Sistani an "atheist and debauched."
He also launched an attack on Iraqi Shias accusing them of conspiring with Yemen's Houthis against Saudi Arabia with Iran's support.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki strongly criticized the Saudi religious institutes after the cleric's remarks.
He said Saudi religious institutes had a tendency to launch attacks on Shia clerics due to their hostile attitude towards Shia Muslims, AFP reported.
Iraq's Parliament also condemned the remarks by calling on the Saudi government to take transparent position on the issue. In a statement, Iraqi lawmakers said the Saudi cleric had intended to create a rift among Muslims.
They called on the Saudi government to warn the clerics against making provocative statements.
The Iraqi Parliament also called on the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), the Association of Asian Parliaments and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to condemn the remarks.
Scary in some regards that a Shia/Sunni Holy War may be brewing. Great for stopping Islamic Terrorism.....but we still need that oil
We do NOT need their oil. We have plenty, we are just too Stoopid to get it ourselves. We listen to, or allow idiots to set our public policy and obstruct the retrieval of oil here in the US.
Drill here and now, and very soon, the Arabs are irrelevant.
In a word...POPCORN!
we still need that oil...
No! We need to defeat the RATS in "10" and Drill Baby Drill!
Additionally, we need to have clean burning coal gassification plants and must stop using natural gas to generate electricity...Screw CO2 emissions!
Our valuable NG resources would best be used for domestic heating during the upcoming decade of global cooling.
Can’t think of anything that would kickstart this economy like unbridled oil drilling/recovery/exploration here as a result of an all out war in the Middle East.
Am I the only one who sees it?
We would need a leader who leads in that regard, and a congress that aren’t complete self-serving morons.
That said I am very inclined, forgive me for my callousness Lord, to say let the muslims kill each other off and spare us all the trouble.
*ping*
It never stopped.
islam: It’s like a clown car but with guns and explosives.
Drill here, drill now. The Obambi's have further resticted drilling in this country this week. Insanity. But I'm glad those GOP members of Congress are raising holy hell about this, er, wait, never mind.
“Let all the poisons in the mud bubble out”(I Claudius).
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