Saturday, July 23, 2005
Growing signs of Sunni-Shi`ite discord: The deputy chairperson of the [Shi`ite] Higher Islamic Council in Lebanon, Mufti `Abdul-Amir Qabalan, wondered the other day about the reasons for the silence among Muslim clerics regarding the carnage in Iraq. He specifically asked why the Shaykh Al-Azhar is silent when bombs are placed at mosques or are directed at civilians?