http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...t/10500869.stm
Quote:
Lebanon's top Shia Muslim cleric, seen as a key figure in the founding of militant group Hezbollah, has died at the age of 74.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah was regarded as Hezbollah's spiritual guide after the group was founded in 1982, a charge both denied.
An implacable critic of the US, he had a wide following among Shias and backed the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
But he was known among Shias for his moderate social views.
He held particularly progressive views on the role of women in Islamic society.
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So he was implacable against the US and yet he had rather more moderate views about the position and role of women in Islam.
on the one hand it would seem he was modern and progressive and on the other a throwback.
The main point is what will this mean for Hezbollah?