Saturday, May 18, 2013

Reading Between the Lines of an Anti-Sunni Article You Can See the Shias' Purposeful PR

Who's nuttier, Khomeinists or Wahhabists? It's rather a toss-up, I'd say, but in the following story, Wahhabists are made to sound way wackier (no doubt because the source of the story is Khomeinist):
A man identified on Twitter as Abul Ala and claiming to be a Salafist-Wahhabist cleric, has decreed women should not turn on air conditioners or coolers at home, in the absence of their husbands.
According to the Iran-based Al-Alam news network the cleric is alleged to have decreed: "turning on the cooler ventilator is prohibited for women in the absence of their husbands" because "the woman's act is very dangerous, and may bring about immorality in the society. When she turns the cooler on, someone may notice her presence home, and this might bring about immorality".
The news report also stated Salafist-Wahhabist clerics "have a distorted reading of Islam" and their decrees are "incompatible with common sense".
Salafist and Wahhabist ideologies are considered to be ultra-conservative branches among Sunni Muslims and such kinds of bizarre decrees and Fatwas (a ruling on a point of Islamic law) coming from clerics belonging to these sects are not uncommon. 
 As if ultra-conservative Shia clerics are the quintessence of "common sense."

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