{"id":1776,"date":"2005-02-04T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T20:20:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-04T13:20:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T20:20:37","slug":"moqtada-al-sadr-fingers-ink-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/04\/moqtada-al-sadr-fingers-ink-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Moqtada al Sadr: fingers ink-free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How predictable is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30200-13295657,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">this?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--PHOTO\/SIDEBAR START--><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" bgcolor=\"#C0C0C0\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"90\"><!--startphotolist--><!--startphoto--><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/alsadr_no_purple_1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=180,height=180,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alsadr_no_purple_1\" title=\"Alsadr_no_purple_1\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/images\/alsadr_no_purple_1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"spcut\">Look, no purple!\n<\/p>\n<p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p><!--endphoto--><!--endphotolist--><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--PHOTO\/SIDEBAR END--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I stood aside for the elections and did not stand against them as I did not want to show disobedience toward the Marjaiyah (senior clerics).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not join these elections so that I wouldn&#8217;t be one of the West&#8217;s pawns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The West is so proud that they have held the elections but I would ask: who is responsible for the blood that day?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call on all religious and political powers that pushed towards the elections and took part in them to issue an official statement calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of the occupation forces from Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The firebrand cleric gave notice that he would no longer hold his tongue about political developments in Iraq after keeping quiet for months.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh my, no purple finger for Moqtada al-Sadr.  I&#8217;m so shocked.  I suppose next we will hear that the guerilla war is still raging on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How predictable is this? Look, no purple! &#8220;I stood aside for the elections and did not stand against them as I did not want to show disobedience toward the Marjaiyah (senior clerics). &#8220;I did not join these elections so that I wouldn&#8217;t be one of the West&#8217;s pawns. &#8220;The West is so proud that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}