This is one incident which I am steering away from, as it reeks of sectarianism...
It reminds me of the time when Sultan Mehmet, the Khalif of the Usmaniya Khilafat almost conquered Europe, all the way up to Bucharest, it was the Abbasids who attacked Muslims cities from the rear for which Sultan had to draw his forces back to take care of the threat from other 'Muslims'...
If this greatly admired religious leader and spiritual advisor to the Shias, Muqtada al Sadr, wanted to pull the scaffolding from underneath Saddam's feet before he was even given a chance to recite his final Shahadah, and if that somehow makes him feel better or other Shias feel better, so be it...Just declaring Shahadah from the lips doesn't amount to much either...
However, I do believe this article, because only a very religious person can understand the implication of a Shahada and why he would want it curtailed...A normal person or executioner always either asks the condemned if he is ready or at least wait until the condemned has composed himself...
If this greatly admired religious leader and spiritual advisor to the Shias, Muqtada al Sadr, wanted to pull the scaffolding from underneath Saddam's feet before he was even given a chance to recite his final Shahadah, and if that somehow makes him feel better or other Shias feel better, so be it...Just declaring Shahadah from the lips doesn't amount to much either...
Saddam actually intoned the Shahda twice and was cut off during second recital. So Moqtada and his followers did not really succeed if that was their evil motive or intention.
Its funny how many of you folks are stupid enough to fall into the trap of secretarianism. And instead of something constructive things spiral down the same way they have in iraq...with muslims killing muslims over and over again as the whole world watches in glee...
His presence and his slogans do make it very apparent that this execution was nothing but a show of revenge.
Yes, Saddam might have done some horrible stuff when he was in power, but they made a hero out of him at his execution and the man faced death very bravely indeed.
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It reminds me of the time when Sultan Mehmet, the Khalif of the Usmaniya Khilafat almost conquered Europe, all the way up to Bucharest, it was the Abbasids who attacked Muslims cities from the rear for which Sultan had to draw his forces back to take care of the threat from other 'Muslims'
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abbassids the "other muslims" were sunnis and they never attacked ottomans simply because they never existed in those times ! I think you mean the safavids ...
ottoman advance in europe was checked by the europeans notably the poles
furthermore this was hardly the first incident of intermuslim warfare so I dont know why you think it was so important to mention