The Baha'i Studies Listserv Is there a specific ayatollah who has said it is permissible to attack non-combatant civilians in jihad?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Firouz <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > On 24/12/2010 2:47 PM, Susan Maneck wrote: >> >> Generally speaking it has not been the clerics who have been >> encouraging acts of terrorism. Bin Laden, for instance is not an Imam >> by profession, he was a building contractor. Indeed, a lot of the >> jihadists despise the traditional 'ulama. >> > In Shia Islam it seems those are the clergies (ayattolahs) who have issued > fatwas for Jehad and other terrorism acts. And I think in general Shia > clergies are much more powerful than their Sunni counterparts. > > regards, > Firouz > > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to > mailto:leave-548889-68452.e157d5dc5efabb63696f251595c88...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to > [email protected] > Or subscribe: > http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-548890-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
