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Fadlallah - I hardly knew ya

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In its On Faith section the Washington Post/Newsweek organization gives Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah to pronounce his views on Islam. After delicately noting that he is "...a controversial figure known primarily for his support of the armed Shi’ite resistance movement, Hezbollah and for his uncompromising stance against the State of Israel" the WP/N folks let him speak. Contrary to what LGF writes, he doesn't seem to be claiming that Jihad is primarily peaceful, just that it's a last resort.

Of course the sanitized description of Fadlallah, doesn't note that he does fit into a legal category due to his affiliation with a terror group Hezbollah.

The Washington Post and Newsweek today has provided an online column for Hizbullah terrorist group supporter and religious leader Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah to discuss the nature of Jihad as a "defensive" struggle. The Washington Post column clearly describes Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah as a Hezbollah "supporter", stating that he is "a controversial figure known primarily for his support of the armed Shi’ite resistance movement, Hezbollah".

Hizbullah is a Foreign Terrorist Organization, and "Shaykh Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah" is on the US Department of Treasury's Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN). As reported by Newsweek itself, "In 1983, U.S. officials accused him of issuing a religious edict, or fatwa, that condoned the devastating truck bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut ."

Still other than his anti-Israel position he does possess another "progressive" credential.

As for the judiciary, there is a juristic opinion that allows the woman to be a judge. And it is a ruling I am in favor of.

See, he's all for equal rights for women as long as they're covered head to toe in burkas.

Really there's something perverse about giving this guy a platform to express his support for terror and extremism using terms borrowed from liberal Western thought.

also via memeorandum
Meanwhile Fadlallah's Syrian sponsors are again occupying Lebanon. (Where are all the news organizations who give voice to the claim that Gaza is still occupied even though Israel withdrew all of its citizens and military personnel from its borders?) Bret Stephens has details.

The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, an American NGO that has consultative status with the U.N. Because of the sensitivity of the subject, the authors have requested anonymity and have circulated the report only among select government officials and journalists. But its findings cannot be ignored.

In meticulous detail--supplemented by photographs, satellite images, archival material and Lebanese military maps predating Syria's 1976 invasion (used as a basis of comparison with Syria's current positions)--the authors describe precisely where and how Lebanon has been infiltrated. In the area of the village of Maarboun, for instance, the authors observed Syrian military checkpoints a mile inside Lebanon. In the Birak al-Rassass Valley, they photographed Syrian anti-aircraft batteries. On the outskirts of the village of Kossaya they found a heavily fortified camp belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in violation of U.N. resolutions and Lebanese demands.

After hearing in recent weeks that UN cartographer will (conveniently for Hezbollah, Syria, Iran) declare Sheba'a farms Lebanese territory (and thus give the UN's legitimacy to Hezbollah terror against Israel), Israel Matzav is right to wonder why the world is silent.

fadlallah, lebanon, hezbollah, syria.

Posted by SoccerDad at July 25, 2007 6:16 AM