A senior cleric in Iran has issued a fatwa declaring that anyone who threatens Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is “an enemy of God,” state media has reported.
Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi was responding to a question about any threats made by U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Israel, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A fatwa is a ruling on how to interpret Islamic law issued by a clerical authority.
Now we are talking! Get em!!!
During the WW II the Allies did not consider assassinating Hitler, because they knew who was fucking everything up. The lunatic cleric should realize Mango Mussolini is weakening the USA.
You’re assuming Iran has competent leadership.
As much as I’d like to see this sadistic shitbag removed from society anyway possible, it would be preferable to see him in jail or let the Big Macs take care of him. If an assassination is tied to Iran, that can’t be good for anyone.
They should just have Trump’s dumbass UCW event end with a fight between Trump and the Ali Khamenei. Both are demented authoritarian old fools, and it would be funny to have these “tough guys” in a ring barely able to stand up before a punch is even thrown.
But they’re both cowards that make others do violence for them so that’ll never happen.
When two tribes go to war.
…and Diet Coke, the bastard has to drink something.
Here’s a comprehensive list why killing the orange Shitgibbon is a bad idea:
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*Let’s just hope that if anything ever happens, the event takes large parts of the succession line with it.
Making him a martyr would be a bad consequence.
Once again failing to hold a president accountable for crimes against the country only keeps that avenue wide open for the future.
There’s two
Who would have thought that Iran might save the USA 🙄
It won’t. There’s too many other assets implanted. Vance is no better and he at least knows when to shut the fuck up.
sure as hell wasnt on my bingo card.
Hey. If it happens you won’t hear me complain.
He needs to go. The who how and why doesn’t matter so long as he’s gone. That’s a win for the entire human race.
Has he created a movement, or has there been a movement that has attracted him? As I see it, it’s not just him it’s most of the current GOP leadership, Thiel and the Heritage foundation, Citizens United and a few adjacent organizations that need to go before you can go to a somewhat reasonable functioning society in the US. And frankly the way some Democrats react to the New York primary, they also seriously need to clean house.
Happiness is small moments. Little dots of hope in a sea of despair and misery.
You go to work. Autopilot through the day. Then at lunch or on break you get that sandwich you really love from a nearby shop or your favorite spot. You have that momentary respite before returning to whatever drudgery you’re forced to endure to live in this hole. Now expand that to cover everything all the time. Might be a sandwich. Might be a new episode of your favorite show. A hug from your partner or child.
Tiny moments of joy.
Doe 174 dying is a tiny moment of joy that a whole lot of people will get a whole lot of joy from. So yeah. It’ll be worth it. And I’ll applaud it no matter how it happens.
The problem is the movement he has created. The same is true of many other politicians in other countries.
Is it a movement or is it a trump cult?
My view is I don’t see this ending if he dies.
I was gonna say that it would only be unfortunate due to giving them a reason to attack Iran, but history has shown us that doesn’t matter. We’ll do that regardless. If we dont have a reason we’ve been happy to just make one up.
At this point its really just a matter of not wanting to actually fight America on the battlefield.
It matters. He must not be allowed to go quickly or peacefully. He must be tortured live on the internet until it takes him. I won’t be happy with anything less. After all, it’s the cruelty that matters.
Trump: Putting the “fat” in “fatwa” since 1946.
putting the “fat” in “fatwa”
Just how long have you been waiting to use this one?
Iran should have a national twitter for these kinds of burns
Yeah, no shit. I’m with Iran on this one.
Got too many ‘leaders’ in this globe with a Jesus Christ/God Complex. That’s what is wrong with this world.
That and an extreme lack of empathy, which is confusing
Most organized religions don’t cultivate empathy, especially the ones considered Abrahamic. It probably inhibits it.
It’s all about their gods saying “do these things and you won’t suffer at my hands.” Followers don’t get to think about whether something is correct or the right thing to do. They’re too busy thinking about if it’s going to count as a sin.
Having lived in Utah for way too long, I have seen this among the Mor[m]ons. They’ll do “good works” but it’s very impersonal most of the time.
It’s about grinding the maximum blessings with the least amount of effort. That doesn’t lend itself to empathy.
Especially with the whole temple thing. Spend a couple of hours cosplaying as an avatar for a dead person and still get all the blessings as if you helped a living person in a tight spot.
It’s bizarre given how explicit the teachings of Jesus are. It’s very clear that many churches are cults following the teachings of man, only nominally accepting the word of God
Imagine judging all organized religions using Mormons out of all people as your basis.
Or any sort of American-based religion tbh. Christianity (the rites and added Roman things, not the supposed core of Jesus’ teachings) is a mess in itself, but then you have Evangelicals and megachurches and whatever other crazy and distinctively American branches they have over there that I’m not surprised that’s their only understanding of religion. Religion is about self-control, everything else is wind.
At least the Mormons are basically communists. Insular, tribe-only, intolerant communists but communists none the less.
The thing I found out when I was a manager is you will get exactly what you measure. If you measure how long it takes to close tickets your customer service will suffer (that’s a stupid thing to measure anyway, but we had a stupid director). If you measure the number of tickets closed then you’ll get each step of a process as a ticket. If you measure billable hours you’ll get a bunch of time padding.
So since the religion is measuring the amount of sin and (in some denominations cases) good works performed, that’s what you’ll get. How many of the big 10 did you stay on the right side of? Did you put in 2 hours at the soup kitchen? Cool, here’s your ticket to heaven. It’s not measuring how good you are to your fellow humans. And they’re pissed if you don’t have to follow the same rules they do because you don’t believe in the same sins. So they try to force others to live by their dumb ass rules instead of trying to get others to be good people.
I like your example about foolish management, and you’re right in that’s what you’ll get when you “measure for holiness.” Hypocrites and holier-than-thous galore.
However, and I can only speak from a Christian experience, this is why “works based salvation” is not what is taught by Jesus Himself.
What you speak of with “How many of these laws did you follow enough to get a ticket to heaven?” is Hollywood theology at best, and not at all Biblical.
Numerous times He stresses doing good works in secret, and not to show off to others. (If you get attention for it, that’s your petty little reward, basically.)
A righteous life inspires good works naturally, and the Law makes sure we should never forget that none of us are perfect, therefore we are called to forgive others the way we’d wish to be forgiven.
We are not called to judge others. If you judge others, you’d best be ready to submit to being judged by the same metric. (And will likely be found wanting.)
I too, am I weary and sick of these religious cults, who want to wear the funniest big hats and stand on the highest podiums to look down their nose at all the lesser-thans. Surely, they’ve “already gotten their reward”, and those who use faith to mislead and abuse others do not know their God, and He will not remember them.
A Jesus Christ complex would be refreshing. A leader who would deny earthly pleasures, command their followers to love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, uplift the sick and poor, give long sermons about mercy and forgiving your enemies, and would be seen personally breaking bread with the unhoused and lawyers alike?
That’d freak everybody out for sure.
Don’t forget the flipping tables, beating bankers and money-lenders, and saying that rich people don’t go to Heaven.
and saying that rich people don’t go to Heaven.
Indeed, this is the one the Americhristian cult of “supply-side Jesus” really doesn’t like. LOL
Obtaining significant wealth seems to generally coincide in prioritizing it, at the expense of the love for one’s Creator or fellow human being, and ultimately one’s own soul.
beating bankers and money-lenders,
In the interest of accuracy: He “drove out” bankers and money lenders selling sacrificial animals and such, who turned His Father’s house into a disgraceful shrine to money, but He’s not recorded directly inflicting violence upon them.
This is a crucially important detail given Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, among other examples, where He stresses forgiving one’s enemies:
Matthew 5:38-43
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. 40 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. 42 Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away. Love Your Enemies
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 [a]But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
“I inherited a lot of power and connections from my parents, I must be a god”
“Jesus complex” is being an imperialistic or violent and abusive pillaging freak? 😭🙃
The Sermon on the Mount is like 4 pages long, come on…
All these guys are a threat to humanity.
Thank you for this take.
The problem isn’t religion.
The problem is PEOPLE
oh look. a nothing-falafel
Ask Salman Rushdie about that.
It took 40 years
He stayed quiet and went in hiding, Trump can’t for the life of him, do that.
Even if the US government went though a lot of trouble faking his death and relocating him he’d be bragging about it on twitter before the end of the week.
not that I wouldn’t love this win for religious fundamentalist posturing, it’s not going to play out like that for Fruity Tootsie the Orange Teletubby. he’s not the same.
Well, now we have a couple million Shi’ite Muslims—some, but not all of which are extremists—believing that they’ll instantly go to heaven if they off him on the planet… which skews the odds a little.
certainly numbers are in favor of it. I just think there’s a little more to it than that. Osama B’ for instance wasn’t born, he was made with American funding to fight communists for decades. and he existed in a time before the current zeitgeist of manufactured consent.
just sayin, I think it’s highly likely the Islam religion will embrace jihad as a more abstract spiritual vibe before they actually follow through on something like that again. like how leftists now do revolution as more of an affectation or how christians do thoughts and prayers to fix injustices in the world. as it was written in the ancient texts “do it or ‘no balls’”
I know. But it’s a religious thing, so any random dude with a mental illness, other than religion itself, can take Holy Action ™.
perhaps you’re right. I’m struggling with the mental justification of allowing myself to think that anyone but Americans can rid ourselves of him. but who knows. maybe it’s okay to think that someone else will do it. here’s hoping allah’s greatest defender is out there somewhere, may he have the most violent brainworms that he needs for the Holy Justice 🙏 or whatever
He’s not wrong
So he’s the enemy of god? But maga says he’s the second coming of Jesus and doing the lords work? Same Old Testament thinking too
Revelations 13: 16-17
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.
They’ll convenientlyskip over every part in scripture that demands morality and self-restraint, and holds them accountable to their actions. Oh, and literally all of Jesus’ teachings, lol. Merciless “Christians” are a little bit like “dry water”.
Well, Trump is an insult to anyone with more than one functioning brain cell
Babe wake up, abrahamic religion is fighting again.
Oh like trump is relgious
He’s not, but the fundamentalist Christians have decided he’s their hero.
Would it be better if he was, though?
Nah, they could fatwa his fat ass all the same, regardless.
It’s weird when two horrible entities in the world hate each other. Is it popcorn time?
He is the enemy of literally everyone, so, I guess God is also on that list 😂
