Eli Lake, reporter for the New York Sun in Cairo, reports that one of Saudi Arabia's leading Wahhabi sheiks, Abdullah bin Jabreen has issued a strongly worded fatwa declaring it unlawful to support, join or pray for Hezbollah.
The day after Hezbollah kidnapped two IDF soldiers, Sheik Hamid al-Ali issued an informal statement titled "The Sharia position on what is going on." In it, the Kuwaiti based cleric condemned the imperial ambitions of Iran regarding Hezbollah's cross border raid.
Lake writes that "the surprising move demonstrates that Sunni Muslim fundamentalists in the Middle East are deeply divided over whether they should support Hezbollah. While the Gulf's ascetic Wahhabi sects, who are closer to the ethnic fighting between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, have opposed Hezbollah in its stand against Israel's forces, other Sunni fundamentalist groups, such as the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, have pledged their solidarity. On Friday, the brothers will host a rally in support of Hezbollah at Cairo's most influential mosque, Al-Azhar."
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