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Originally posted by Colin
"Muslim scholar". Betcha he's a shiite. I doubt he can read the mind of Saddam or know whether he is once again a Muslim but I betcha he feels Sunni's are not even real Muslims.
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He was a Shiite and was from Basrah, but it was his story that many years ago Saddam denounced God as being non existent and is in fact a secular. It is a fact that Iraq per se is considered to be more secular than any of the other countries in that area of the world.
Of course even his declaration could have been a ruse to garner the friendship of the Soviets.