This is Shiite Islam!
Lawrence of Persia (LOP)
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August 11, 2011
The Shiite ritual of Qameh Zani performed during Ashura
While rooting
out Iraqi enemy fighters in Najaf, U.S. forces took great care not
to damage Shi'a Muslim shrines such as the Imam Ali Mosque, even
when Iraqi fighters took refuge in the mosque and fired on Americans
from there.
L. Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf
C. Shiite Mullahs at Imam Hussein Mosque in Karbala
R. Ali, the fourth Arab Muslim Caliph and the first so-called "Infallible Imam" of Shiites.
Then later on
Friday, April 11 an angry mob of Shi'ites hacked to death with swords
and knives two Mullahs right inside the Imam Ali Mosque! One was
Haidar al-Refaei, the hereditary custodian of the mosque who was
despised as a Saddam collaborator. The other was Sheik Abdel Majid
al-Khoei, who had recently Returned from exile in Britain.
L. Bringing Saddam Hussein Statue Down
C. American soldiers play with Iraqi children
R. Iraqi children give flowers to US Troops and receive candy from them
Another Shi'ite
Mullah, Muqtadah al-Sadr, is suspected of being behind the killings.
Sadr is only a junior cleric in his 20s. But he is the son of Grand
Ayatollah, Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr who was killed by Saddam's regime
in 1999 and is revered by many Shi'ites as a martyr. Sadr has ordered
Najaf's most senior Mullah, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, to leave
Najaf because he is not an Arab (he is from Mashhad, Iran). Sistani
had issued a fatwa that urged his followers not to interfere with
U.S. forces.
Sadr was vehemently
opposed to the American invasion of Iraq and has close ties with
the Islamic Republic of Iran. IR had created an Iraqi Hezbollah-like
organization, the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI), headed by Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. SCIRI has
several thousand fighters (the al-Badr Corps) in Iran trained and
armed by the Pasdaran. SCIRI fighters and agents have started infiltrating
Iraqi Shi'ite cities and SCIRI demands that the US leave Iraq immediately.
Hakim's brother, the military leader of the al-Badr Brigades, has
already re-entered Iraq and been seen with large Crowds of supporters
in Kut, Amarah and Najaf.
Sadr has sent
Mullahs to Baghdad to take control of the slum of 2 million Shi'ites
there. The slum has been renamed from Saddam City to Al Sadr City
after his father. Sadr opened an office in Al Sadr City on Friday
and installed several Mullahs to run Baghdad's hospitals, supplying
them with financing to act as social service centers. Mullahs loyal
to Sadr have also formed armed militias to patrol Shiite neigborhoods
and shoot with impunity any people they deem threats.
When U.S. forces
first occupied Baghdad large crowds of Shi'ites cheered, danced,
waved and threw flowers as marines advanced through Saddam City
and into the center of Saddam's seat of power. Shi'ites enthusiastically
smashed Saddam statues and children handed flowers to U.S. marines.
A
week after the slaying in the Imam Ali Mosque, angry mobs of belligerent
Shi'ite Muslims poured out of their mosques after Friday Prayers and
onto the streets of Baghdad, waving their Qurans in the air and angrily
demanding that US forces leave Iraq immediately.
"Leave
our country! We want peace!"
"No Bush! No Saddam! Yes, yes to Islam!"
"No to America! No to secular state! Yes to Islamic state!"
"No to America! No to Saddam! Our revolution is Islam!"
"We will give the American troops a few months to leave Iraq!
If they do not, we will fight them with knives!"
Shiite Protests in Iraq
Shiite Protests in Iraq
Shiite Protests in Iraq
Shiite Protests in Iraq
What did their
Mullahs tell those Shi'ite Muslims at Friday Prayers to stir them
up so? Here are some quotes:
"We
reject this foreign occupation, which is a new imperialism! We don't
want it anymore!
We don't need the Americans! They're here to control our oil! They're
Kaffirs!"
- Sheikh Kaazem al Abahadi al Nasari
"We
are all against the Coalition because they are Kaffirs! We are demanding
an Islamic state! We will have an Islamic state here that mainly
orders good and prevents evil. Televisions are not allowed, dominoes
are not allowed, women wearing makeup are not allowed, dubbed foreign
films are not allowed. It will be a state whose laws are written
in the Quran!"
- Sheik Abbas al-Zubaidi
"America
has weapons, but the Iraqi people have principles!
If the United States lies and doesn't keep its promises, there will
be a Jihad here and in all Arabic regions!"
- Sheik Assad al-Faeli
Mullah releasing Fatwa to Shiites
Indeed Iraqi
Shi'ite Muslims have principles! The senior principle, as they so
eloquently demonstrated in the Imam Ali Mosque is "Get in my
way and I'll kill you!" The days of looting and destruction
in Baghdad and other cities are testament to their other principles!
Looting stores, government offices and banks and stealing food,
furniture and money is one thing. Ransacking museums and hospitals
and burning down libraries is quite another. As one US marine observed,
"These people are wrecking their own country More than we did!"
Saddam ruled
Iraq with an iron fist for over 20 years. Any Shi'ite Mullah in
Iraq who dared to openly flap his gums in disrespect to Saddam was
put to death. The US crushed Saddam's regime in less than a month
and brought to Shi'ites and other Iraqis freedom of speech and religion
such as they have not had for decades. Shi'ite Mullahs in Iraq now
threaten Jihad against the US unless US troops leave Iraq. While
Their factions hack rival Mullahs to death right in their holiest
shrines. Imam Ali must be very proud that his worshipers are such
good Shiite Muslims! Still murdering, looting, burning libraries
and praying to Allah after about 1400 years!
This
is Shiite Islam!
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