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The Religious Authority Sayyed M.H. Fadlullah Communique regarding the Aggression against the Shrine of Imams Al-Hadi and Al-Askari(a.s.)

Once again the criminals and barbarians have committed an aggression against Islamic Holy shrines through their targeting of the shrine of Imams Ali Al-Hadi and Al-Hasan Askari, (a.s.)  with their sublime position in  the Muslims' general conscience, as well being symbols of Islam that represent an extension of the Prophet's march as well as the sense of giving and viability of Islam.

Those criminal hands are similar in their brutality and their barbarism to those who have insulted the Messenger (p), because they both have the same objective: to insult all Islamic sacred symbols as a prelude to attack Islam itself with all its concepts, principles and rulings.

We feel that this crime is very dangerous not only because it targeted the Holy shrine of the two Imams (a.s.), but also because it has targeted Islam itself along with the Islamic history with its great symbols. Furthermore it seeks to incite strife among Muslims in Iraq, which would then spread to other places in  the region especially that all the massacres they had committed,  and that were encouraged by the American occupation, have failed to drag the Muslims and especially the Shiites to this fire that is supposed to burn the entire region.

  I appeal to my children in the injured Iraq and to the entire Iraqi people with all its various sects and races, to be aware that this crime has occurred at a time the American occupation in trying to use a language that would incite strife and create a crisis in the Sunni – Shiite relations. It is trying to cover its failure by encouraging all acts of crime and subversion that might incite strife.

We have confidence in the awareness of the people in Iraq and in their ability to discover the criminals and those who support them either directly or indirectly. Thus, we call on them all to stand unified in objecting these criminal acts and in curbing   those who are inciting strife. They should devise a practical mechanism that would prevent the criminals from committing their acts of terrorism. We also call on the parties that have condemned this crime to meet on a unified political and Islamic line that seeks to eradicate crime and evil in Iraq in particular and in the Islamic world in general, since such a meeting will contribute in protecting the nation both internally and externally.

Our people in Iraq should support the Islamic religious authority in it efforts to protect Iraq and to curb any negative reactions, since the issue is not an issue of Sunnis and Shiites, but that of the apostates who are sponsored by the occupation in one way or another. It is also the issue of what has remained of the tyrannical regime. But above all it the issue of the occupation that is trying to stay in Iraq, by means of benefiting from such crimes that it encourages either directly or indirectly.