Murderous thugs outraged at the use of their own tactics
Published Tue, Jan 16 2007 11:16 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, War on Terror, Middle East
From the New York Times:
CAIRO, Jan. 16 — The botched hanging of Saddam Hussein and two lieutenants in Iraq by its Shiite-led government has helped to accelerate Sunni-Shiite sectarianism across an already fragile Middle East, according to experts across the region.
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“The reality of the current situation is that we are approaching an open Sunni-Shiite conflict in the region,” said Emad Gad, a specialist in international relations at the government-financed Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. “And Egypt will also be a part of it as a part of the Sunni axis. No one will be able to avoid or escape it.”
This changing dynamic in the region, described by many scholars, analysts and officials in recent days, is a result not only of the hangings, the Iraq war and the Lebanese political struggle. It has also been encouraged by Sunni-led governments like those in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and some Sunni religious leaders alarmed by the rising influence of Iran, the region’s biggest Shiite power...
Should this come as any surprise? Sunnis and Shiites have been fighting for a long time. The conflict in Iraq is nothing but a new front for them in their ages old war.
Sunnis make up a vast majority of the Islamic world. Shiites, who lead Iran and the Iraqi government, are the next largest sect. The two split over who would lead Islam after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
While the two have theological differences — and similarities — the gathering conflict is being stoked by a determination by Sunni leaders to preserve, or reinvigorate, their waning influence in the region — while emboldened Shiites have pressed for more influence.
Of course the New York Times takes the opportunity to find yet another way to praise Saddam Hussein...
In December, a top religious leader close to the Saudi royal family, Abdul Rahman al-Barak, said that Shiites, whom he called rejectionists, were worse than Jews or Christians.
“By and large, rejectionists are the most evil sect of the nation and they have all the ingredients of the infidels,” he wrote.
Such talk is causing a creeping sectarian tension, political analysts said. In Mr. Abdullah’s village in the Nile Delta region of Egypt, where many people had posted a picture of Sheik Nasrallah, there is a growing sense of disunity with Shiites that mirrors partly what is happening in Iraq. “Saddam Hussein was the one courageous man among Arab leaders,” said Ibrahim Mustafa Ibrahim, a school janitor. “We saw how he was executed. We saw everything.”
Remember, these are representative of the religion of peace. The terrorists and others involved in the sectarian violence in Iraq are the same people that decapitate people s-l-o-w-l-y, using dull serrated knives, all the while filming it on aging video-tape so they can broadcast their cruel barbarity to the world. These are the people that now are outraged at a quick decapitation, and a couple of hangings of people that deserved to die.
Terrorists hardly need an excuse for violence. Neither do two "religious" sects that have been fighting for hundreds of years. Bringing justice to mass murderers and thugs is hardly to blame for their hatred of one another. It's just the latest in a long line of excuses.
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