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Obama Advised to Acknowledge Iran’s Nuclear ‘Fatwa’
Cybercast News Service ^ | April 19, 2013 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 04/19/2013 12:55:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Obama should acknowledge an Iranian fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons “as one of the bases for nuclear negotiations,” according to a report urging a new push to engage Tehran, endorsed by a group of former senior government officials.

Iranian officials periodically cite a purported fatwa (religious ruling) by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam, although the notion is viewed with skepticism by some critics, Muslims among them.

The fatwa was supposedly issued in 2005, but since then the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in a number of reports pointed to evidence that Iran has carried out activities relevant to a nuclear weapons program. Iran insists its programs are for purely peaceful purposes. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fatwa; iran; nuclearterrorism; rop

1 posted on 04/19/2013 12:55:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The undocumented Tyrant can no more recognize Iranian
terrorism than he can recognize Hasan terrorism.


2 posted on 04/19/2013 12:56:26 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Olog-hai

Acknowledge it? He issues fatwas.


3 posted on 04/19/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Olog-hai

There should be a fatwa on Iran. Iran is a dead country.


4 posted on 04/19/2013 12:58:46 PM PDT by ravager (I)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh, please.

We’re talking about the Obamadork.

Gimme a break. Give up.

This man defines corrupt.

He is slime.

Pure slime.

In the entire multiverse, you will not find more pure slime.


5 posted on 04/19/2013 12:58:52 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai

Did Valerie Jarrett advise this?


6 posted on 04/19/2013 1:11:22 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Olog-hai

They also have a tenet that says they can deceive,or lie to defeat the infidels. Try better next time buffoons


7 posted on 04/19/2013 1:11:47 PM PDT by ballplayer
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To: Olog-hai

Taqiyya.


8 posted on 04/19/2013 1:17:55 PM PDT by Teotwawki (For a person to get a thing without paying for it, another must pay for it without getting it.)
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9 posted on 04/19/2013 1:30:56 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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To: Olog-hai

Iran’s nuclear fat wad? Who’s that?


10 posted on 04/19/2013 2:38:11 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Olog-hai
...the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons is forbidden under Islam...

And the Kellogg-Briand pact outlawed war in 1928, too. And Obama said the Affordable Healthcare Act was going to "bend the cost curve down."

11 posted on 04/19/2013 2:56:18 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Thanks Olog-hai.


12 posted on 04/19/2013 5:24:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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