Ali al-Sistani quotes

“It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.”
-- Ali al-Sistani

Source : "A Code of Practice For Muslims in the West". Book by Ali al-Sistani, January 2, 2014.

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“Sistani's office refuses the replacement of the law [which excludes former Baath Party members from returning to public life] because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.”
-- Ali al-Sistani

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“[Gays and lesbians should be] Punished, in fact, killed. The people involved should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.”
-- Ali al-Sistani

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“Sistani’s office refuses the replacement of the law because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.”
-- Ali al-Sistani

Source : "Top Iraqi Shi'ite cleric rejects Baathist law". www.reuters.com. April 2, 2007.

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”

“Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.”

“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.”

“Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.”

“The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.”

“Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.”

Source : "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.