A very alarming item has just been posted over at Jihad Watch. Here it is in full:
Corrections to my translation welcome.”
As yet, this item hasn’t appeared anywhere else, but watch this space…
Here is an update posted by Jihad Watch, and courtesy of MEMRI:
Which begs the question: if Sharia Law prohibits development of nuclear weapons, why is Iran doing just that…?
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Thanks for your comments, WINGMAN.
You make good points. Also, I gather that Muslim leaders don’t all agree that Islam prohibits nuclear weapons in the first place. Either way, it’s clear to most rational people that Iran is determined to have nuclear weapons. And since it has publicly threatened to destroy Israel on several occasions, this should be of concern to all in the free world. A nuclear Iran is not a threat just to Israel, but to everyone living in democratic nations.
If Sharia Law prohibits the possession of nuclear bombs, that would not rule out the production of weapons-grade uranium as per Iran’s present activity. If at some future date Iran then decides that it does need to actually build itself some nuclear bombs, it would then obtain a fatwa (legal ruling) from its religious clerics who would use ijtihad (interpretation of Islamic texts) to show that self-defence can in fact serve as a justification for their being created.
So Iran is playing a game of words aimed at stringing the world along for as long as possible while it focuses on strengthening its military position, and religious law would not hold it back from changing the rules of engagement if it suited it do so at the time.