"A respected Shiite cleric from southern Lebanon, Ali Amin..." You mean respected by the Hariri family. He certainly is not respected in the city of Tyre where is Mufti (and he issues fatwawawa). In fact, he is ridiculed because he was first a militant Hizbullah extremist (supervising many "sentences" in the 1980s); he then became an Amal supporter, and now he works for Hariri Inc.