Pakistani Shi'ite Muslim Clerics Are Blaming the US for Mosque Bombing

[leftchick]

Pakistani Shi'ite Muslim clerics protest in Karachi against an attack on the Golden Mosque in Iraq February 22, 2006. A dawn bomb attack devastated a major Shi'ite shrine in Iraq on Wednesday, sparking nationwide protests and sectarian reprisals against Sunni mosques despite appeals for calm from government and religious leaders. REUTERS/Athar Hussain



Pakistani Shiite Muslims burn United States and Israeli flags to condemn the bombing on the Golden Mosque, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites in the Iraqi city of Samarra, at a rally in Karachi, Pakistan on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Time for my tinfoil hat:

The mosque is destroyed by 'Iraqi police', the Sunni are blamed. Sunni mosques are destroyed in retaliation. In return retaliation, more Shia mosques are destroyed. It spreads to outside Iraq, into Pakistan and Palestine.

Finally ends with "unknown terrorists" blowing up the Dome of the Rock. With the Dome Mosque destroyed, and internecine war wracking the Muslim world, the Muslims can no longer enforce claims of sovereignty, Israel's Likkudists reclaim the Temple Mount. With major funding from Christian evangelicals, construction begins on rebuilding the Great Temple.

Next stop, Armageddon.

:tinfoilhat:

[leftchick]

3. no tinfoil required

:scared:

[seemslikeadream]

4. seems all too familiar

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091900572_pf.html

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/19/content_3514065.htm



http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m16501&date=07-oct-2005_03:45_ECT





http://www.progressiveindependent.com/shalom/britishinsurgents.htm

[leftchick]

7. and those were only two caught

I imagine there are hundreds running around Iraq. :(

[Igel]

2. It's safe, at least.

In the last two weeks, Shi'ites have been killed by Sunnis, some Sunni "activist" (in this case, a politician of some sort) was killed, and Christians attacked and a church burned.

The Xian attack was because a "Xian" had burned a few pages of the Qur'an in an attempt to blame his father-in-law, I believe it was, and take his land when he was arrested for blasphemy. Not an uncommon occurrence. I put "Xian" in quotes because the guy converted to Islam a few years ago; it was unseemly to say he was a Muslim, and if he was a Xian, then there was somebody to attack.

The country's already riven by deep sectarian hatred, often mingled with deep ethnic hatred, which frequently takes on classist overtones; the minorities find scapegoats, or (in the case of the Xians) routinely grovel so as to be tolerated. Fundie madressas play a big role in the education system, and even the suggestion to remove the Qur'anic "smite them wherever you find them" from the *secular* school system produces riots. Meaning the Xians and other non-Muslims get to be taught the official Qur'anic line that they're to be smitten and humiliated, and affirm this on tests and in class. Nice country, that.

To blame Sunnis anywhere would be to blame the local homegrown Salafist sect--which has been reinforced with Wahhabism and other Salafi cults--which would lead, in turn, to violence. Easier to follow the Iranians' lead (there's some cultural/ethnic overlaps, although Baluchis in Iran aren't exactly at the top of the heap) and blow off steam. At the same time, it allows complaints against Musharraf--a Sunni, and not Salafist--to be made even louder. After all, in addition to the Musharraf/US ties, there are consistent rumors that Musharraf is always about to establish formal ties and is in negotiations with the Israeli "descendants of pigs and apes".

[EFerrari]

5. Hey -- do you have a link for your other thread?

I wanted to show Doug the pictures of the shrine.

:(

[bloom]

6. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x488840

Other threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x492065

[EFerrari]

8. Thank you, bloom!

[leftchick]

9. here you go

God this is insanity. Remember predicting all of this pandora's box shit 4 years ago?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x488840

[EFerrari]

10. It's like watching the world's worse train wreck

We knew as soon as That Felon was installed it would be bad. But even I never dreamed it would be so bad that I'd regret bringing two boys into this world.

:cry:

[leftchick]

11. oh my god sfexpat!

I think that same tought every day these last few months about my own two boys. I looked at my little one this morning as I dropped him off at school and his beautiful, innocent face literally brought me to tears. I have been crying a lot over those two and what I have done bringing them into this world. Had I known 11 years ago what I know now I doubt I would have had them. And they are both IVF babies! :cry: :cry:

[EFerrari]

12. We have to hang in, leftchick. We are where we are.

I have no reason to have faith in this country. But, I do. :)

:hug: