home court

if Riyadh's pawn in Cairo's worth his salt
he'll form a league with Jordan's king Abdullah
to bring the Libyan ISIS to a halt
a saner voice than Iran's angry Mullahs'
no Shia or Christian can lead this fight
the Umma would reject such intercession
a valid Mufti's gotta judge what's right
from inside the fighters' Sunni confession
what ISIL preaches isn't true Islam
and ought to be stamped out as heresy
and ISIL's fighters, not their victims damned
by their own scholars, not by you and me
Obama's got to let the Arabs lead
in this war, that's a role for a shaheed