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Right. Which is why the Iraqis voted in the elections and will vote in the subsequent elections as well.
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this is not wolfowitz's ideology knuckleheads...it is god's.
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Yes, what are you going to do when Iraq becomes a greater Iran...I think it will be fitting end to this twisted tale spun by the muslim haters. People like you will be the first one to ask for a complete destruction of Iran...I guess Shias will not be your friends at that time...
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Most, if not all leaders of Muslim countries happen to be secular…and staunchly so. Why forget this little tidbit? Among Palestinian Islamists, Iran is not so bad…and much more reliable than, say, Egypt.
Baharain and Saudi have huge Shia populations that the ruiling elite need to supress…but then, they fear and supress Islamists who don’t follow the party line just as much…so I wonder if they are relaly anti-Shia at all.
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Shias and Islamists are different. Ask any Shia, they know more than you, and they can tell you if Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are anti-Shia or not.
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^ This has to be the quote of the day at GS.
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Iraq will not become greater Iran. Now you are spewing trash from the “liberal media.” The philosophy of Najaf and Sistani differs from the philosophy of Qum and Khomeini. Iraq cannot be a Shia theocratic state following the Wilayut-ul Fiqh doctrine (which I think is a Sunni doctrine anyway) due to its minority populations and the secular thoughts of its people.
I will never ask for the destruction of Iran. My grandmother is from there, and I would never do that.
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So you’re saying that the reason Saudi Arabia and Bahrain oppress their Shia populations is because they are “Islamist”?
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Nice try. The Iranis are Islamist. Pan-Islamism and Shia-Sunni unity was their call back in the day. Perhaps you’re too young to remember.
The secular Arab governments (and I would include the family run business of the Gulf states in this category) are fearful of any populist movement, and by far and wide one can very much guage the opression of Shias by how far Islamists (among them many Iranian-backed Shias) are supressed.
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Really so you are against US and Israel taking actionagainst Iran due to their refusal of inspections? Lets put your money where your mouth is. I am not spewing any liberal media crap…this is what will happen…unless good folks like wolfwitz has already started another hate campaign on the ground between Irani and Iraqi shias.
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Yes, Iran has the right to nuclear power. Every country does. US fears of Iran are stupid and have no basis.
And no Kaleem, you are spewing ignorant crap about Iraq becoming a sattelite state of Iran. Iran and Iraq will be very close, no doubt about that, but not to the extent that Iraq will become a theocratic state like Iran. Sistani follows the quietist philosophy in political Shi’ism, the complete opposite of what Khomeini perpetuated in Iran.
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That is exactly what CIA was saying before the revolution......learn from history my friend.
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Not all Iranians. Only the Iranian government can be classified as Islamist. The point of this thread is to observe whether or not Shia-Sunni unity is the best thing for Shias. And I am of the opinion that it is not.
Very true. Hopefully this will end soon.
Political oppression is one thing. But religious oppression? That’s too much.
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Yes Kaleem, but now it’s not the CIA saying it. It’s the Shia leaders of Iraq, even the SCIRI leaders are saying that Iraq cannot be a theocratic state. They will use Islam as a source only for their law.
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And you think Iraqi leaders if they had any designs on siding with Iran will show their hand now? How stupid do you think they are? Come on, Capitol...maybe you need to spend sometime with Muslim leaders rather than meeting with asswipes such as Wolfowitz.
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I already said they will side with Iran, since Iran and Iraq are natural allies due to cultural and religious affinities. Iraq will NOT be a proxy to Iran. I don’t think Iraqi leaders want to put their people to become subservient to another power. They want their country to stand on its own.
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Only time will tell...
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Yep, we'll see.
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In my opinion Islam doesn’t require a government to be a theocratic government so called run by religious leaders. Sometimes they can’t do very well as they spend more time for Allah, so they know very little about the affairs going on overseas or in local. They can’t perform well, and also when they become president they get more resposibilties and sometimes even unrest. This also affairs in praying Allah, the most merciful and the most beneficient.
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I know the answer to this question. Iran KNOWS that America would NEVER slaughter its small Shia population or its Iranian population because America is better than that. But the Arab countries would conduct a full scale genocide on Shias if that were to happen. Iran knows that America is not Satan and the only Satanic countries in the world are the Arab nations.