Absurd Rightwing Hallucination Of The Day

[Mark E. Smith]

... comes from Rick Moran of the appropriately entitled "Right Wing Nut House."

"Their (Iraq's) spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali al Sistani is a fiercely independent patriot, a conservative who recognizes that Iraq's future must be a secular one that embraces all religious and ethnic peoples."

Well there you have it. Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the fundamentalist Islamic Iraqi patriot from Iran, is actually a conservative interested in bringing multicultural democracy to Iraq.

You just can't make this stuff up.

http://www.rightwingnuthouse.com/

[Career Prole]

1. Well obviously!

Instead of making a fatwa to vote for the religious party he only, er...sorta sideways insisted on it. :p

The highest spiritual authority for Iraqi Shiites, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf, urged Iraqs on Sunday to participate in the elections scheduled for the coming Thursday. He refrained from encouraging them to vote for the United Iraqi Alliance (he had done so in the Jan. 30 elections earlier this year). In a communique issued by his office, Sistani added, "These elections are just as important as the preceding ones, and citizens--both male and female-- must participate in them on a wide scale in order to guarantee a big and powerful presence for those who will safeguard their verities and work energetically for their higher interests in the next parliament." He did warn them about splitting or wasting their vote. (Cole: This last phrase might be taken as a de facto endorsement of the United Iraqi Alliance, which groups most of the religious Shiite candidates.)

http://www.juancole.com/2005/12/sistani-counsels-shiites-against.html