War on Iranians
An Iraq’s senior Sunni calls to curb “Persians” ambitions plotting the destruction of Arab Sunnis. Reuters quotes Mr. Adnan al-Dulaimi warning twice within two days the fatal consequences of the ethnic conflict in Iraq. In his communiqués, he equally mentioned both Iranians “Persians”, and Islamic regime as the sources of evil.
Though he accused also Sunni extremists close to al-Qaida, but by putting harsher tone on the danger coming from “Iran”, not the only from Mullahs, he accuses “Shiite” Iranians of sponsoring Shiite death squads for“ genocide” against Sunni Arabs.
Actually, a civil war is difficult to end when it is a religious or sectarian war. The current sectarian war in Iraq is a product of both Shiite and Sunni political Islam to which Mr. Dulaimi belongs too.
Iranian people „Persians” are fed up with the Shiite-based Islamic regime in Tehran, including its Iraq policy, and do not side with any ethnic or religion in Iraq and have nothing to do with it.
Complex sectarian incentives that push violence forward in Iraq do not belong to “Persian” tradition and interests. The “wishful” labels on “Persians” as “Muslim Shiites” shows Dulaimi’s sympathy for Islam, to which he belongs today the other side.
His provocative appeal of hatred between “Persians” and Arabs refers to historical clashes between Sunnis and Shiites which politically started when the Safavid Dynasty imposed Shism as the state religion on Iran.
Mr. Dulaimi does not know that the Dynasty promoted the then Shiite sect into the current state religion to target at the Sunni Ottoman Empire, not Arabs.
Shah Esmail, the founder of the Dynasty, imported Shiite Sayyeds (allegedly Prophet’s descendents) from a region called Arab Jabal Amel, in today’s Lebanon, to spread the faith.
The Mullahs in Iran who are allegedly the descendents of Arabs Sayyeds do not represent Iran and Iranian history and “Persian” identity.
In a part of his irresponsible appeal to Sunni leaders, Dulaimi says “Your brothers in Baghdad are suffering a genocide carried out by militias and the death squads with Iranian planning, instructions and weapons,” he said. “Persians” and “Safawis,” Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni Arab regimes which predominate in the Mideast.
“It is a war that has started in Baghdad and they will not stop there but will expand it to all Arab lands,” al-Dulaimi wrote in an impassioned broadside e-mailed to The Associated Press.
Mr. Dulaimi’s appeal of hatred against Iranians, “Persians” ignores the fact that “Persian” is an explicit hint to pre-Islamic citizens of Iran. The term is used today to distance a non Muslim identity from an imposed Islamic identity of post-Islamic history in Iran. In a common sense, it is at leas true for those Iranians who prefer to have a non-Muslim identity.
Mr. Dulaimi can condemn the IRI for any reason except for being “Persian”. He can accuse the IRI of being behind sectarian crimes in Iraq, but he cannot patch up the fate of Iranians with the anti-Iranian IRI. He must know that a great majority of Iranians are the most vulnerable victims of IRI’s crimes.
The dominant idea in “Persian” legacy of civilisation is the following:
Sunnis, Shiites, Jews, and many millions of seculars can peacefully coexist in the Middle East when religion does not rule.
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Unfortunately some Arabs still live with hatred towards Persians.
The question is why some Arabs still have hatred toward Persians? what’s wrong with them? even during Iran-Iraq war, all Arabs were united against Iran? I think so Saddam Hussein nicely returned their favor. The old saying: goes around, comes around.
Dear Fariborz
Hatred toward others is more likely to be comparable with an extreme inferiority complex. In a greater scale, it is a social complex of inferiority because of the lack of democracy and education in the society.
Arabs, Iranians, Kurds, and Turks have much more in common in the region that for the mentally balanced individuals nothing should inflicts mutual hatred.
There are 1 billion plus Sunnis in the world and only 350 million plus Shi’ite. The answer lies in there. The Sunnis view Shi’ite as heretics historically and one might suggest, correctly so. The sunnis view themselves as ‘superior’. And most Arabs will never convert to Zoroastrainism or start reading Quoron in Persian. As far as they are concerened, they are still the conquerors, and Persians the “conquereds”.
I’d have no problem if Iraq was controlled by the Persians, or the entire Arab world for that matter.
Mecca and Medina were much better off under Turkish control than under Wahhabi control, so if the Persians take over, perhaps it might spark a renaissance.
Persians have no intention of doing that. The Islamic Republic does against the will of the Persians.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has been a Muslim state (khilafah) with Sharia law imposed since 1979, nearly 30 years. To show how these religious Islamic leaders turn the truth into lies in order to push their barbaric Sharia law upon the world, I have including some Iranian news with completely rebutts this religious cleric’s lies.
POVERTY — TEHRAN: More than 13 percent of Iranians live under the poverty line, a government minister was quoted as saying Sunday, amid increasing concern about the welfare of the worst-off in the Islamic Republic. “Some 9.2 million people are living below the poverty line, meaning 10.5 percent of people in cities and 11 percent in villages,” Social Security and Welfare Minister Abdolreza Mesri said. (The Daily Star) So much for a Muslim state and Sharia law ending poverty.
DRUGS — For years, officials have said some 2 million Iranians are addicts or abuse drugs. But they also acknowledge that this is a baseline figure from a 1999 survey, and some officials estimate that the real number is almost 3 million.
Drug Control Headquarters chief Hashemi rejected lower police estimates on the number of drug addicts. Hashemi said that number of known addicts is 2.5 million-3.35 million, “Iran” reported on 4 July. He noted that the number of addiction-related arrests has increased from 78,000 in 1987 to 431,430 in 2004. (Radio Free Europe) So much for a Muslim state and Sharia law ending drug use.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN – Girl children suffer the worst conditions in Iran today. According to the clerical regime’s rules and regulations, a girl child can virtually be bought and sold with the consent of her male guardian.
In a report on November 22, 1994, the United Nations Special Rapportuer on violence against women said “the public stoning and lashing of women serves to institutionalize violence against women. The Special Rapportuer has received many allegations of such violent punishments being inflicted on women in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
According to a special “religious decree” issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, virgin women prisoners must be raped before execution to prevent their going to heaven. A Guard conducts the rape the night before their murder. The next day, the religious judge at the prison issues a marriage certificate and sends it to the victim’s family, along with a box of sweets.
Tens of thousands of women have been subjected to cruel torture and execution. One method is particularly revealing: the Revolutionary Guards fire a single bullet into the womb of women political prisoners, leaving them to bleed to death in a slow process of excruciating pain. Even pregnant women are not spared, and hundreds have been executed with their unborn children. Many defenseless women prisoners are held in what are euphemistically referred to as “residential quarters” in prisons, where the Guards systematically rape them in order to totally destroy them.
In an eyewitness report, Amnesty International revealed how the small children of many young women in Evin Prison are viciously abused. Witness Helmut Szimkus, a German engineer, told Amnesty International they are kept “because they are an asset to the prison authorities for gaining confessions.” Szimkus, who was released after serving a lengthy sentence in an Iranian prison, said he witnessed several cases where Iranian children were tortured in the presence of their parents. “One time these guys [torturers] raped a nine-year-old girl. The parents had to watch. The father shook and rattled so badly that he could no longer sign the espionage confession they put before him.” So much for a Muslim state and Sharia law ending drug use.
The truth about this Sharia Islamic state is that it is a most barbaric, most uncivilized system of governance. The American media has not been fair or balanced in reporting the horrible nature of human rights abuses related to Islamic states like Iran.
from:http://independencelost.blogspot.com/2007/08/sharia-law-will-end-poverty-drug-use.html
Dear Jahanshah,
Thanks. it’s the key answer.
serendip:
Thanks for your comment.
Your point as well is right. As we see, religious leaders just are looking for power and superiority
Ummm, talk to any extremist Sunni and they will tell you that Iran is an apostate Safawi state.
No extremist Sunni accepts the legitimacy of Iran as an Islamic state, which is something the LGF-types cannot be able to grasp.
Hmm… I can say the same thing about the Persians.
Everyone knows why Saddam did what he did. Stop deluding yourself.
Jina:
Porbably but very muslims ones love arab states.
Perosnally I did find some Arab friends during my travels and we do share mutual respect and friendship, even though they asked me, why Persians hate Arabs?! I replied: “I don’t hate you! and am Persian” I guess I have to write an article about it.
Why? and why all arab states united during Iran-Iraq war?