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Showing posts with label Sunni. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Monday, July 07, 2014
Sunday, July 06, 2014
Sistani and the Jihad
Haider Ala Hamoudi
As has been widely discussed, Grand Ayatollah Sistani recently issued a call for jihad against the terrorist organization currently rampaging throughout much of Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ("ISIS," recently renamed the Islamic State). This call, however well intentioned, is not likely to be the solution to Iraq's problems and may in fact create more problems than it solves. The reason is not, as is commonly stated, that it will contribute to rising sectarianism in Iraq. In fact, Grand Ayatollah Sistani's call was phrased as ecumenically as it could be. It urged all Iraqis, and not merely Iraq's Shi'a, to join this jihad, though admittedly it is unlikely that significant numbers of non-Shi'a Iraqis would heed such a call. More importantly, the Grand Ayatollah made clear that volunteers should join the army itself rather than fight on behalf of any one of the numerous sectarian militias active in Iraq.
The problem, instead, is that the call to jihad operates on the principles of jihad long established among jurists operating in the Muslim tradition, and it hardly seems fitting for the type of modern warfare in which Iraq is currently engaged. As a result, it is not a solution to the real military problems with which Iraq is faced. To understand why, it is important to review the historic rules respecting jihad as jurists have laid them out.
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Thursday, July 03, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
VIDEO - A Quarter or Iraq has fallen - the Battle is Big - Iraq Writer slams Al Jazeera: They Regulate Terror in Iraq
Iraqi journalist Abu Firas Hamdani has acquired worldwide stardom after having visited the Aljazeera studio in Qatar where he accused the Qatari government and its main state television Al Jazeera of manipulating news and thereby 'regulating' terrorism in Iraq. Qatar and Saudi Arabia are frequently referred to as the primary source of revenue for ISIS in Iraq and Syria. On June 18, Abu Firas was invited to hold a debate at the Al Jazeera studio in Doha. Whilst speaking at the Al Jazeera show, Hamdani questioned Al Jazeera's intentions and directed criticism toward the Emir of the country. A pen was thrown at Hamdani by his opponent during the diatribe and Abu Firas was subsequently removed from the studio. State security forces loyal to the Emir arrested and jailed Hamdani for his remarks in Qatar.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
“Nightmare scenario”: ISIS encircling Baghdad
“Thousands of young men from the south have flocked to Baghdad to bolster the flagging army, and many observers have assumed that the flow of southern militiamen would help stem an ISIS advance that’s captured much of northern and central Iraq in the weeks since the city of Mosul fell under ISIS control June 10.” However, that doesn’t seem to be happening. Nonetheless, it seems unlikely that Iran will sit idly by and allow its Shi’ite client government in Iraq to fall without a fight.
“Islamist fighters reportedly attempting to encircle Baghdad,” by Mitchell Prothero, McClatchy, June 25, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
http://goo.gl/NM0lVpIRBIL, Iraq — Iraq’s dire situation has gone from bad dream to nightmare in two weeks of fighting that have seen Sunni Muslim gunmen assert control over a growing area, including, Kurdish officials said Tuesday, at least two towns that lie on a crucial supply route linking Baghdad, the capital, with the mostly Shiite Muslim south.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Iraq crisis: Shia militia show of force raises tensions
Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has rallied followers to join a military parade across Iraq, as Jonathan Beale reports from Baghdad
Thousands of Shia militia loyal to the powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have paraded through the streets of Baghdad, raising sectarian tensions amid continued fighting in areas of Iraq.
The cleric, whose Mehdi Army fought the US in Iraq for years, had called for a military parade across the country.
Correspondents say the show of force will be seen as a very disturbing development by the Baghdad government.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Reprisal Killings now in Iraq as Religious Was heats up
AP is reporting that Nearly four dozen Sunnis were murdered at a jail north of Baghdad, a car bomb struck a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad and four young Sunnis were found dead, as ominous signs emerged Tuesday that open warfare between the Sunni and Shia Muslim sects has returned to Iraq. The religious schism is ancient and had led to many wars and more deaths.
The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The division between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the oldest in the Middle East - and yet it is one which seems increasingly to be shaping the destiny of this troubled region as thousands of devotees from both sides pour into Syria. Jihadist al-Qa'ida volunteers on the Sunni side and Hezbollah militants on the Shia, are joining what is fast becoming a transnational civil war between the two factions. 1
The conflict actually began in the year 632 with the death of the Prophet Mohamed. The same is true of the violence, tension or oppression currently gripping the Muslim world from Iraq and Iran, though Egypt, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The division between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the oldest in the Middle East - and yet it is one which seems increasingly to be shaping the destiny of this troubled region as thousands of devotees from both sides pour into Syria. Jihadist al-Qa'ida volunteers on the Sunni side and Hezbollah militants on the Shia, are joining what is fast becoming a transnational civil war between the two factions. 1
AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed
1. The vicious schism between Sunni and Shia has been poisoning Islam for 1,400 years - and it's getting worse, The Independent, 19 FEBRUARY 2014, HTTP://WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK/NEWS/WORLD/MIDDLE-EAST/THE-VICIOUS-SCHISM-BETWEEN-SUNNI-AND-SHIA-HAS-BEEN-POISONING-ISLAM-FOR-1400-YEARS--AND-ITS-GETTING-WORSE-
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