I do not know which shia gatherings you have been attending. They sound like real dodgy ones. Try and find a proper one next time or if u r unable to then let me know your location on the globe and i shall be happy to oblige to direct you to a right 1 Insha Allah.
It is quite easy to sit on your back and criticize or disect any given group or sects' beliefs as no such large group of people (200 million plus in this case!) is perfect in its entirety and i am sure u know it well, but u choose to exploit few of the weaknesses you have seen/observed in a selected/limited bunch of weak people and create confusion and diversion.
I would like to request you to explain us your believess and perhaps recommend a better "non clownish" way to celebrate "mohabbat-e-AhlulBayt (as)" (that is if u r a believer :))
And btw thanks for mentioning the rules of debate. I leave that for the readers to decide as to who really is trying to answer the questions and who is playing the "divert or i-know-it-all games"
As a reader, I think Das Reich has been very objective.