As I said before, the report of the false Fatwa issued by Sis­tani meant to embar­rass the high Shi­ites insti­tu­tion Al-Hawza, with­out any details the Al-Arab Al-Youm reported that there is kind of unrest among Shi­ites about Sistani’s denial of issu­ing such Fatwa, but it seems the pres­sure con­tin­ues with another false report that Sis­tani rejects the U.S. — Iraq long pres­ence deal.

On their web­site, the Sadrists are con­cen­trat­ing indi­rectly on the role of the Hawza and the Shi­ites cler­ics [work­ing under Maliki’s umbrella] coop­er­a­tion with the Amer­i­can in the open­ing of a recon­struc­tion cen­ter in Kar­bala saying:

The Amer­i­cans invaded the holi­est Shi­ite city [Kar­bala] and opened an intel­li­gence and secu­rity cen­ter under the name recon­struc­tion in Karbal.

Reli­gious cler­ics asked Sis­tani to inter­vene to pre­vent the CIA from con­trol­ling the city of Hus­sein because they chal­lenge the Shi­ite and Islam.

This pol­icy of “cre­at­ing doubts in Sistani’s cred­i­bil­ity” is also used by Al-Fadhila Party, see this report on Al-Ghad newspaper:

Ismail Al-Wa’li [brother of Basra gov­er­nor] who is also a leader in Fad­hila Party accused Sistani’s son Moham­mad Ridha coop­er­at­ing with Maliki’s gov­ern­ment of steal­ing the oil and he is the who super­vis­ing the oil issue in oil ministry.

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  2. south or much of Bagh­dad with­out Shi­ite coop­er­a­tion. Sis­tani still has a great deal of moral author­ity, and would be backed by less cau­tious cler­ics such as Muq­tada al-Sadr and Aya­tol­lah Jawad al-Khalisi. And the offtimes-unreliable pro-Sunni web­siteRoads To Iraqsays that all of this is a cam­paign by anti-occupation Shi­ite groups to cast doubt upon the cred­i­bil­ity of pro-occupation Sis­tani. Some ana­lysts are say­ing that the debate seems to cen­ter around whether Sis­tani is issu­ing for­mal fat­wahs or simply

  3. in effect mak­ing this another direct chal­lenge to Sis­tani and his Najaf col­leagues, on the lines of the Haeri state­ment of last Wednes­day which chal­lenged them to take a clear stand against the pro­posed bilat­eral secu­rity agree­ment. In fact,one viewis that these events, and the AP story about armed resis­tance to the occu­pa­tion, are part of a con­tin­u­ing series of chal­lenges to Sis­tani and and the other Najaf author­i­ties, the AP story being in effect a sim­i­lar chal­lenge, in that case to either

  4. […] New strat­egy: Cre­at­ing doubts in Sistani’s cred­i­bil­ity   As I said before, the report of the false Fatwa issued by Sis­tani meant to embar­rass the high Shi­ites insti­tu­tion Al-Hawza, with­out any details the Al-Arab Al-Youm reported that there is kind of unrest among Shi­ites about Sistani’s denial of issu­ing such Fatwa, but it seems the pres­sure con­tin­ues with another false report that Sistani […] […]

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New strategy: Creating doubts in Sistani’s credibility

This article was written May 25th, 2008, with the mathematical number of 7 contributions.