Should Saddam Hussein go free or executed? Lets see how many people vote for free and how many for execution. and let 's have some real discussion.
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He might make a good President in Iraq.
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Yes i agree with you and i think he should be freed.
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Yes because his sunni arab brothers are getting the short end of the stick. :(
He needs to make them the big, important men running the show once again. They were so darn good at supressing the shia and kurds.
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Alright bro, I don’t understand much about religion. So you might think that i am religion ignorant. but can you tell me what is enemity between the sunni muslims and the shias? Can you also tell me more about the kurds? Thanks in advance.
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He is still the ‘real’ President of Iraq.
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Wow, that’s a pretty tall order. I’m sure there are ‘scholars’ (or know-it-alls) on this board who could offer you more help, but you may want to start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurd
Have you tried posting in cafe? There’s none of this silly geopolitical and religious discourse going on.
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There is no enmity between them. It is goras’ tactic to divide and rule. Whether they are British imperialist in India or American imperialists in Iraq.
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He should be tried and then dealt with accordingly, but in a free Iraq rather than one that is not under foreign military occupation, and which can actually provide security for those people who choose to defend him. So far 2 of them have been killed. With that kind of pressure on the defence team and thus intimidation against any witnesses at large who may choose to testify in favour of Saddam, a free and just trial is impossible.
Saddam, ironically, is well on the way to eternal memory as the victim of a show trial. Saddam's execution under the present situation would be an enormous inflammatory act. Regardless of what he did in the past, he remains the most famous Sunni Muslim in Iraq and as such a show trial punishment against him would be seen as an act of intimidation by the Sunni minority.
Ironic because who counted the number of people given show trials by Saddam? Even after being deposed, Saddam is continuing to make show trials work in his favour.
He is planning to go down to the very end being viewed as brave and defiant in the face of injustice. And as such, to Iraq's Sunni community, this memory of Saddam will forever overshadow the injustice he handed out as Iraq's dictator. Given a few decades, he will be remembered as a hero rather than a monster.
The entire handling of Saddam's capture and judicial processing will go down in history as yet another blunder by the USA in Iraq.
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Yes I agree he should have been killed(or preferably tortured to death) on capture like his sons there was no reason to make a martyr out of him.
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Does everyone know that ANYONE can write or edit anything on this ‘liquid’ internet (so called) Encyclopedia?
Many many mistakes can be found on it.
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why isnt saddam being tried in an international court? I dont think the iraqi courts will do justice to the iraqi people. Especially not under occupation, where you have all sort of influences and threats from both sides.
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cuz he will take names of his backers,esp. the ones that helped him use WMD to such deadly effect
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A guess: The USA does not recognise the international court w.r.t. atrocities?
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A good guess indeed.
Das: I have a nasty feeling some cases have been weeded out for the saddam trial. It all seems abit of farce to me.
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Where hath though sleeping Mr. Smith?
Shia Sunnie divide is as old as the time our first Khalifa rah was “selected”. It deteriorated furhter during the battles of Jamal (Ali rah vs. Ayesha rah), and Koofa were sunnis killed the most beloved person in the history of Shia’ ism.
Sunnies don’t believe in Fiqah Ja’fri, and Shias return the favor by ignoring Fiqah Hanfi (and the other three).
They are not supposed to say prayers in the same mosque. Show me the Sunnis praying in Imam Bargahs of Karachi.
Are you out of your slumber Mr. Smith?
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While I agree with you that sunni-shia relations were never good but it is wrong to classify the sahaba as sunni or shia.These sects were born centuaries after their death,and at their time they were just political factions not religious(although they differed slightly in their interpretation) but it would be wrong to say they were different sects from the start.
Also Ali(A.S) was assasinated by a kharijite a group whose modern descendents are the Ibadi sect not mainstream sunnis.
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To be sure …but lets not have any sympathy for saddam
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Yes, what is a little Genocide between friends. Let’s face it, Saddam more than anyone is also responsible for the violent brutal society that Iraq has become. His decades of brutal repressive tactics dehumanised Iraq, and its people.
So yes, let’s wait a couple of decades for perfect conditions before he is tried. Saddam is simply reaping what he has sown…
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This statement is laughable at best. Oh Pappu Ji, Saddam is in court and his sons have been murdered. This make the situation very real that he is no longer President of Iraq. The next thing may happen is that he could get sentenced to life in prison or treated with a bullet in the head.
Saddam who killed his own sons in law is not the one who can be termed as “The leader of Islam”, however he probably will be the ex-leaders of a bunch of Maulanas on this forum.
Look the divisions started back then, and became worse with time. We can argue if the amount of salt in Maulana’s handi was 1 teaspoon or 1.5. What really matters is that Sunnis and Shias are now full fledged sects whose leaders don’t particularly like each other. The same leaders don’t feel ashamed when one of their lacky, whacks the head off of another secty.
We may be nice and term it as $tupidy, or could be more zealous and declare Jihad against the other guy’s sect. No matter what, major differences exist, and pushing them under British rug (as per Mr. Smith) is a simple cop out.