Group nominates Shiite cleric for Nobel

[Rose Siding]

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of exiled Iraqi Christians in the United States said Sunday it has launched a petition nominating Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric for the Nobel Peace Prize, drawing more than 7,000 signatures from around the world.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, 75, is Iraq's most-revered Shiite cleric and a symbol of Shiite political power. The group said he has repeatedly opposed anti-American violence, including a bloody summer uprising by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Al-Sistani "gave Muslims all around the globe a good example how to follow peaceful ways to resolve complex social (and) political challenges that face them, condemning terror and emphasizing ... rule of law," the petition said.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/03/06/group_nominates_shiite_cleric_for_nobel/

[Blue to the bone]

1. Well, does anyone think he deserves it?......or should he be hung....

...for dealing with the devil......George W. Bush?

[Rose Siding]

4. He could have really stirred things up if he'd wanted

but I don't know enough about the details of his involvement in preventing an even worse conflagration to say if he deserves a Nobel for it.

[applegrove]

2. I wouldn't know enough about him to say. n/t

[Blue to the bone]

3. Sistani or Bush? n/t