Baghdad's highest Shia authority has denounced the US military assault on Falluja and called on all Iraqi religious authorities to support the Iraqi people.
Aljazeera article[...]
Al-Khalissi said he and his faction fully support the religious decree issued by Iraq's influential Sunni Muslim authority, the Association of Muslim Scholars, in which it prohibited Iraqis from participating in the US attack on Falluja.
"I am here today as a Shia figure belonging to a prominent Shia religious family to confirm that Iraqi Sunni Muslims are our brothers and dear countrymen. We lived since the dawn of Islam in this country as brothers.
"We back our brotherly Sunni Muslims in the city of Falluja and nothing on earth will spoil our brotherhood with them."
Well, the Great Uniter has succeed in one thing that might not have happened if he hadn't invaded Iraq - uniting the religious Shias and secular Sunnis.
For its part, the movement of the Iraqi Muslim Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr said it has suspended its support for the forthcoming election in January 2005.
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