Shakhbutian politics

"Sheikh Mohammed smiled. That smile was all I needed to know about our host." All you needed to know was a smile for the oil Shaykh? Is that the ultimate happiness for you? Also, he said: "Last week he also hosted Al Allamah al Sayed Ali al Amin, a respected Shia professor of religious and philosophical science at universities in Iraq, Qom and Lebanon." He is no respected and no professor. This is a small town cleric from my hometown of Tyre. He was at first a cleric for Hizbullah in its horrific phase in the 1980s and was associated with "horrific" fatwawas, and later switched allegiance to Amal, but when he was not selected to succeed Muhammad Mahdi Shams Ad-Din in the Supreme Islamic Shi`ite Council, he left Amal. He was a Mufti of Tyre but the people of Tyre democratically kicked him out of his post two years ago when it became clear that he was a tool of the Hariri family. He has since become a Hariri Shi`ite who is an acceptable Shi`ite for oil princedoms, sheikhdoms, and sultanates in the Gulf. And Sultan forgot to mention that this Zahrouni guy was a tool of the Bush administration which was opposed to both: Islam AND science. (thanks Sultan)