{"id":414,"date":"2004-01-16T06:53:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-01-16T06:53:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T13:53:41","slug":"is-an-anti-us-fatwa-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/16\/is-an-anti-us-fatwa-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Is an Anti-US Fatwa in the Works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani:<\/p>\n<p><i>KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraq&#8217;s most revered Shi&#8217;ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington does not hold direct elections, a close aide said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The imam insists on his opinion that general and comprehensive elections should be conducted in all regions of Iraq so that the Iraqi people will have the final say,&#8221; Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Mohri, a Kuwait-based aide to Sistani, told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Sistani) also says we don&#8217;t accept letting people from outside rule, and by that the imam means the coalition forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Mohri earlier told Abu Dhabi television Sistani would issue a religious edict if the U.S. administrator in Iraq ignored his opinion. &#8220;If Bremer rejects&#8230;Ayatollah Sistani&#8217;s opinion, he would issue a fatwa depriving the U.S-appointed council of its legitimacy,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After this, the Iraqi people will not obey this council, as it will be a caricatural council named by Americans.&#8221;<\/i>     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L15592723.htm\">Read complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That possibility has been brought up by a close aide to the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani: KUWAIT, Jan 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Iraq&#8217;s most revered Shi&#8217;ite cleric could issue an edict that would ban Iraqis backing a U.S.-appointed council and spark mass protests if Washington does not hold direct elections, a close aide said on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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-414","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\/414","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}