A call to arms: what lies beneath Sistani’s potent fatwa?

Rachel Kantz Feder published an article in OpenDemocracy.

"Ayatollah Sistani’s fatwa, urging collective responsibility for Iraq’s religious sites, has been variously construed as a Shi’i mobilization campaign or a nationalist call to arms. But beneath the fatwa’s surface lie deeper roots: the very ruptures and fissures that plague Iraq’s Shi’is."