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Citizens who are able to bear arms and fight terrorists in defense of their country, their people, and their holy places must volunteer to join the security forces.
إنّ على المواطنين القادرين على حمل السلاح وقتال الإرهابيين دفاعاً عن بلدهم وشعبهم ومقدّساتهم أن يتطوّعوا للانضمام إلى القوّات الأمنيّة. Context: Sistani's fatwa, delivered in Karbala on 13 June 2014, that mobilized the Hashd al-Sha'abi against ISIS — arguably the single most consequential sentence in 21st-century Iraqi politics.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani other 2014 Iraqi Grand Ayatollah; top Shia religious authority in Iraq and the most influential Shia cleric outside Iran. Quietist tradition (limited direct political role) but his fatwas have shaped Iraqi politics decisively — most notably the 2014 fatwa calling for resistance to ISIS that brought hundreds of thousands of volunteers into the Iraqi armed forces.