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  • Top Iranian cleric slams US pastor, stops short of fatwa

    10/08/2002 3:30:55 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 32 replies · 150+ views
    Iran Mania ^ | October 8 2002 | AFP
    TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP) - A top Iranian Shiite cleric on Tuesday called on Muslims "not to stay silently seated" after right-wing US pastor Jerry Falwell labelled the prophet Mohammad "a terrorist". Quoted by state radio, Ayatollah Hossein Nuri-Hamedani called on Muslims "not to stay silently seated in the face of such insults and propaganda". "The priests linked to the White House who stand against the prophet seek to revive the (pre-Islamic) period of ignorance," he said. Ayatollah Nuri-Hamedani is one of the clerics considered qualified here or issue a fatwa -- or Islamic edict -- but in his comments...