Allahpundit - Allah Is In The House
April 04, 2004
Many pious shahids have written to Allah tonight wanting to know more about Muqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters were responsible for today's massacre in Baghdad. Some shahids praise him. Others blame the Jew. This does not surprise Allah, as he gets the same two responses every time something fucked up happens that the mujahedeen, for whatever reason, are really happy about. Alas, in this case the truth lies in between. It is true that there is a foreign power at work here--but, for once, it is not you-know-who.
From GlobalSecurity.org:
The loyalty of many of [Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr's] supporters has now passed to another son, Hojatoleslam Muqtada al-Sadr, a mid-level cleric about 30 years of age. Unlike his father, Muqtada has no formal religious standing to interpret the Koran, and relies for religious authority on an Iran-based Iraqi exiled cleric, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri.
Here's a report from the New York Times written last spring describing a fatwa issued by Ayatollah al-Haeri shortly after Baghdad was liberated.
A religious edict issued in Iran and distributed to Shiite mullahs in Iraq calls on them "to seize the first possible opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the administration of Iraqi cities." The edict, or fatwa, issued on April 8 by Kadhem al-Husseini al-Haeri, an Iraqi-born cleric based in the Iranian holy city of Qum, suggests that Shiite clerics in Iraq are receiving significant direction from Iran as they try to assert the power of Iraq's long-oppressed religious majority. . . .
"People have to be taught not to collapse morally before the means used by the Great Satan if it stays in Iraq," the fatwa reads. "It will try to spread moral decay, incite lust by allowing easy access to stimulating satellite channels and spread debauchery to weaken people's faith." The fatwa also instructs the cleric's followers to "raise people's awareness of the Great Satan's plans and of the means to abort them." . . .
On April 7, the day American troops effectively toppled Mr. Hussein's government by seizing its main seats of power in Baghdad, Mr. Haeri sent a handwritten letter to the holy Iraqi city of Najaf, appointing Moktada al-Sadr as his deputy in Iraq. In the signed letter, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Haeri wrote that, "We hereby inform you that Mr. Moktada al-Sadr is our deputy and representative in all fatwa affairs." It added: "His position is my position."
Surely, though, Allah is jumping to conclusions. Al-Sadr's association with one ayatollah does not establish the complicity of the entire Iranian leadership, does it? Asia News, February 19:
Unlike his greatest rival, Ayatollah Al-Sistani, Imam Sadr has never uttered the word “democracy” during his sermons nor mentioned any future possibility of living together with other ethnic and religious minority communities in Iraq. . . . Several months ago Al-Sadr visited Iran where he was warmly received by the Ayatollah Khamenei and Hashemi Rafsanjani. According to Arab sources, Khamenei probably compared Al Sadr to Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, when wishing him luck in kicking out American forces in Iraq “like the Hezbollah did to Israel in Lebanon”.
More from the New York Times, June 25, 2003:
In a step that may intensify a struggle between moderates and conservatives in Iraq, a hard-line Shiite cleric recently met with the leadership in Iran, according to his aides. American military officials confirmed that the cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, had recently traveled to Iran. . . .
Just what Mr. Sadr did in Iran is uncertain, other than attending the June 4 anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran's theocracy. However, two of Mr. Sadr's senior aides said he had met with Ayatolloh Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader; Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the head of Iran's judiciary; and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran's former president. "Yes, they offered help," said Ahmed Shehbani, a senior aide who said he had traveled with Mr. Sadr. "Either humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people or moral support."
Allah suspects that some of that "moral support" ended up lodged in the bodies of U.S. soldiers today. But hold on, kufr. A-double-lizzle has saved the best for last.
[T]he regime is intending to create more and more turmoil in Iraq as the US Presidential Election is approaching. Several members of its National Security Council and Intelligence believe that more shocking images will hit American's minds and will push them toward voting for the US Democratic Candidate. They strongly believe that John Kerry, as he has stated, will open negotiations with them and will reward them with parts of their requests if elected as the next US President.
Mr. Kerry who's benefiting of some very friendly US based Iranian lobbyists' advices has qualified the tyrannical and terrorist Islamic republic as a "Democratic frame" and promised to "Repair damages done by the Bush administration".
Allah wonders how many more Fallujahs it will take. A million would be difficult--but perhaps not impossible. Seven months is a long time, kufr.
Allahu Akbar. |
