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2007-11-10 Iraq

Iraq in the Balance: Will the Shia Prosecute Their Own?

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-11-10 03:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 By a quirk of Iraqi law, ministries are allowed to block prosecution of their officials if they decree -- truthfully or not -- that those officials were "carrying out their official duties." Naturally, mass-murdering Iraqi Sunni is not one of the official duties of the Iraqi Health Ministry; but the Interior Ministry (the most powerful ministry in Iraq) has used this dodge in the past to prevent prosecution of rampaging police officials.

Schaweet! Built in protection from all conflict of interest. Does this set off a whole bunch of warning klaxons for anyone else besides me?

The two accused Shiite officials are both Sadrites, and Muqtada Sadr personally secured them their positions; curiously, the government is only trying to prosecute them now because of a terrible fumble by the Mahdi Militia

We can only hope this is a sign of just how far in decline Sadr's star is.

In tribal countries like Iraq, propinquity is the lodestone of power. If you're not constantly looking down people's necks and breathing over their shoulders, they'll swiftly find some other master to serve.

Ummm ... that would be "breathing down people's necks" and "looking over their shoulders", but don't let any malapropisms get in the way of a really good observation about high context cultures. Proximitybe it temporal or materialis everything to largely illiterate and ignorant people with short attention spans.

The slaughter was carried out in an organized fashion, by order, and often targeting helpless Sunni already sick or wounded and in hospital... along with their loved ones, who were often kidnapped and butchered when they unwisely came to visit the patient. The two charged individuals together are thought to account for hundreds of these ritualistic human sacrifices.

Interesting to see that I'm not the only one who considers Islam to be a reincarnated cult of Baal, complete with human sacrifice. Children and adults alike are hurled into the furnace with cackling glee.

As the article observes, it's time for Iraq to ~~fight or fuck~~ fish or cut bait. Either they administer the rule of law and take down these killers or frankly admit they are nothing but another theocratic shari'a-ruled Islamic cesspit.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-10 10:47|| 2007-11-10 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Non Muslims wonder why Sunni Wahabis allow Shiites to attend the Haj pilgrimage idiocy. The reason is: there are hadith reports that the phony "prophet" predicted sectarianism, and didn't prescribe war against lesser apostasy (the "War on Apostasy" fought by the first successor - or caliph - was waged when a Yemeni claimed to be a new "prophet").

Islamic Sunna - emulation of Muhammed's perverse life and character - islamizes all state activity. Secularism is impossible under real islam. That is why Pakistan liquidated all but 1% of the 20% of its population that was Muslim at Partition, and why 2,000,000 Christians were coerced out of Muslim occupied lands that were once Roman Palestine.

Sect supremacy has been established in Iraq: the Shiites won and will seek to enforce their laws throughout the entire country.

Posted by McZoid 2007-11-10 19:22|| 2007-11-10 19:22|| Front Page Top

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