Hizbullah’s Spiritual Leader dead at 74
Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, one of Shi'ite Islam's highest religious authorities, died at the age of 74.

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Arutz Sheva
July 4, 2010

Terrorists best friend, (former US President) Jimmy 'Dhimmi' Carter
with Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
 

Hizbullah’s Shi’ite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has been hospitalized in Beirut for internal bleeding and is reported to be struggling for his life. CNN quoted Hizbullah sources as saying that Fadlallah may not live much longer.

The 75-year-old leader is the spiritual guide to Hizbullah, headed by Hassan Nasrallah, and backed the Iranian revolution against the Shah. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard helped establish the Hizbullah terrorist organization.

Fadlallah has advocated suicide attacks against Israel and has survived several assassination attempts against him. One of his former bodyguards was Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a car-bombing in Damascus two years ago. In 1985, a car bomb exploded near his Beirut house, but he and Mughniyeh survived the blast.

He wrote U.S. President Barack Obama last year, "The size of support and cover-up provided by your country for the Zionist entity has become known. This entity was established on the land whose people were uprooted by the power of iron and fire.”

He previously has stated, "I say that America, in its policy that aspires to impose hegemony on the world is an evil with no good in it." He also has urged economic boycotts against Israel and the United States.

Two years ago, he said on the Hizbullah Al-Manar satellite network, "Zionism has inflated the number of victims in this holocaust beyond imagination. They say there were six million Jews – not six million, not three million, or anything like that.”

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Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
 

Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, one of Shi'ite Islam's highest religious authorities, died on Sunday at the age of 74, a medical source at a Beirut hospital said.

Fadlallah had a wide following among Lebanese Shi'ites and was a supporter of Iran's Islamic Revolution. He was the spiritual leader and mentor of the Shi'ite militant group Hizbullah in the first years after it was formed in 1982.

Last year Fadlallah reiterated his call for a Muslim-Jewish dialogue as part of interfaith efforts aimed at bridging the gap among various religious, rejecting any offense against Jews or Christians in any Arab or Muslim country.

However, Fadlallah wanted to emphasize the importance of a Muslim-Jewish dialogue away from Zionist influence, stressing that Jews need to be freed from the cycle of world Zionism and Israel should be confronted because of its occupation of Arab lands.

"Islam recognizes Judaism and rejects any offense against Jews or Christians...We have no complex toward Jews at the religious level," Fadlallah said.

Fadlallah also stressed that Lebanon's Shi'ites have no foreign agenda or a special project to spread Shi'ite ideology in the predominantly Sunni Arab world. He also said the Shi'ites are not seeking to change any Arab regime.