http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2010/07/04/grand-ayatollah-fadlallah-the-black-sheep-of-the-hawza-why-it-is-important-to-watch-malikis-reaction/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2010/07/04/grand-ayatollah-fadlallah-the-black-sheep-of-the-hawza-why-it-is-important-to-watch-malikis-reaction/comment-page-1/#comment-89256 On Octavia Nasr, Media Double Standards and the Absurdity of Neoconservatives « American Footprints Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:42:13 +0000 http://www.roadstoiraq.com/?p=8456#comment-89256 [...] Though he was an early supporter of Hezbollah (often mistakenly identified as “the spiritual guide of Hezbollah“), and justified the use of suicide bombings as legitimate resistance to occupation in Lebanon, Palestine, and elsewhere, he later criticized the group for its close relationship with Iran, and distanced himself from Ayatollah Khomeini’s system of velayet-e faqih (rule of the clerics.) He also strongly condemned the September 11 attacks as acts of terrorism. Though by no means a progressive (at the time of his death Fadlallah remained on the U.S. State Department’s list of designated terrorists), his unorthodox views earned him condemnation from more conservative clerics as a tool of the West to undermine Islam. [...] […] Though he was an early supporter of Hezbollah (often mistakenly identified as “the spiritual guide of Hezbollah“), and justified the use of suicide bombings as legitimate resistance to occupation in Lebanon, Palestine, and elsewhere, he later criticized the group for its close relationship with Iran, and distanced himself from Ayatollah Khomeini’s system of velayet-e faqih (rule of the clerics.) He also strongly condemned the September 11 attacks as acts of terrorism. Though by no means a progressive (at the time of his death Fadlallah remained on the U.S. State Department’s list of designated terrorists), his unorthodox views earned him condemnation from more conservative clerics as a tool of the West to undermine Islam. […]

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