Mick Hartley

Here's a real charmer. Egyptian cleric Muhammad Al-Zoghbi hates Jews (of course),but he really really hates Shi'ites:

The Jews have been torturing the Palestinians for some 60 years now, but that's nothing compared to the Shii'ites:

How many Palestinian children, men, and women and children were killed by the accursed Jews? With all due respect, the figure cannot exceed 50,000. If you look at what has been done in just a few years by the criminal Rafidites – may Allah bring shame upon them – they annihilated four million Sunni monotheists in Iraq in just a few years. They have killed more than half a million in Syria…

And that Khomeini…he had sex with a five-year-old girl. Oh yes.

Once again, apart from the astonishment one can't help feeling that such vicious unhinged hatred can get airtime on TV, to a respectful audience, there's the familiar thought that always, with Islam, it's the clerics who lead the race to the bottom.

Rafidites – rejectionists – is a standard Sunni term of abuse for Shi'ites.