A top Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling the pair "enemies of God" and sparking global terrorism fears.
A Fatwa is just a legal ruling through Islamic law (the major form of law in Iran) by a qualified religious scholar (a mufti). Basically they officially recognized Trump and Netanyahu as the enemy and like, no shit, they bombed them. This feels alarmist and as if it is playing on islamaphobic ignorance. We declare people enemies of the state all the time but thats not “inciting terrorism”
Anyone not remembering the news from 39 years ago might say so, yeah, but I remember fatwas from before, maybe you should ask Salman Rushdie about it.
Just because the US and Israeli governments are evil doesn’t mean they the Iranian government is comprised of boy scouts, they are fucking evil too.
And just to be clear: any religion is bad. Any extremist religion is evil; see extremist Christians, extremist Muslims, extremist Jews, it doesn’t matter the religion, they’re fucking evil assholes that should disappear from this world as they will kill us all
A Fatwa is just a legal ruling through Islamic law (the major form of law in Iran) by a qualified religious scholar (a mufti). Basically they officially recognized Trump and Netanyahu as the enemy and like, no shit, they bombed them. This feels alarmist and as if it is playing on islamaphobic ignorance. We declare people enemies of the state all the time but thats not “inciting terrorism”
That was a good attempt at minimizing the effects of someone of this stature making a statement like this.
It’s a public statement saying to the extremely devout religious members that the high officials condone the deaths of these Nations people.
I mean it always has been okay. But now it’s even more okay. Again.
Kinda like the high officials of these nations did to their military. So it’s all balance right?
But it’s not cause the religious extremist will attack soft targets intentionally.
Death to America does not mean death to Americans and the Iranian people know this. They are much kinder to us than we often are to them.
Source: I know Iranians and have taken multiple courses on modern middle eastern history and politics. I am not expert but I know this much.
Anyone not remembering the news from 39 years ago might say so, yeah, but I remember fatwas from before, maybe you should ask Salman Rushdie about it.
Just because the US and Israeli governments are evil doesn’t mean they the Iranian government is comprised of boy scouts, they are fucking evil too.
And just to be clear: any religion is bad. Any extremist religion is evil; see extremist Christians, extremist Muslims, extremist Jews, it doesn’t matter the religion, they’re fucking evil assholes that should disappear from this world as they will kill us all
Just because iran government is evil doesn’t mean they don’t have the right to oppose the two war criminals Trump and Netenyahu