Nuclear Mufti of Egypt. Bahai's Targeted. Iraq and Her Nervous Neighbors
Nuclear fatwas- what would the sahaba say?:
“The Mufti of Egypt has issued a fatwa banning the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) against non-muslims, except in self-defense and based on decision taken by countries that are aggressed upon..…But he did say that the Shari’a allows countries to own WMD as deterrence, but that they should not be the first to use them…..He dded that only ‘states’ should be allowed to use such weapons….” al-Azhar
Some of it makes some sense to me. As for the Shari’a, there is nothing about WMD in either the Quran or the Hadith, anymore than there is in the old testament. So apparently developing WMD as deterrence is kosher for a ‘state’, but not for non-state entities…..
Now, what about using WMD against other Muslims, like Saddam did in the 1980s? Assuming Kurds and Iranians are Muslims, of course.
Islamists' new target:
“al-Aazhar: Baha’ism is a Zionist movement that has no relations to the heavenly religions….This is thr strongest comment by the Center for Islamic Research at al-Azhar, that Bahaism serves Zionist goals and interests and seeks to spread corruption, destruction, and sin in the world…This statement comes withing weeks of attacks on Baha’i homes in southern Egypt…” Elaph
Now that the pigs of Egypt are dead or on the run, the Copts are silenced...
Iraq's nervous neighbors:
Relations between Iraq and some of her Arab neighbors are deteriorating.
Saudi Arabia’s rulers have never been happy about political changes in Iraq, because they ushered in elections, and ended with a Shi’a-Kurdish dominated regime. They have never sent an ambassador to Baghdad even while they complained about Iranian influence.
Relations with both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait took a turn for the worse in the past week, after al-Maliki complained about Saudi ‘unfriendliness’ and the continued terrorist infiltration from Saudi Arabia, and raised the issue of war reparations being paid (to Kuwait) . The Saudi Interior Minister and the Saudi media have responded with a series of attacks of al-Maliki and the Iraqi government.
It also looks like some border issues are pending, but that goes beyond Iraq and Kuwait: even the borders with Iran are not quite settled. In Kuwait, the issue of the border is taken seriously, for an obvious reason: Iraq has been a continued source of threats. And that was under the rule of the former Sunni elites.
As for war reparations, I wish many of Iraq’s neighbors read up on the Versailles Treaty and the impact of the severe reparations imposed on Germany after World War I (they can have some of their advisers read up on it if they can't).
One farsighted Kuwaiti journalist in al-Qabas even argues that both countries were involved in a war on the other, and that the invasion of 2003 (sprung from Kuwait) makes up for the Iraqi invasion of 1990. The counter-argument made by others is that the invasion of 2003 helped the Iraqi people and the current rulerrs of Iraq.
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