Dispute Settled
Well, good thing that's over and done with. And relatively few dead, relatively little material damage. What's a few dozen civilian deaths, in any event, given the larger picture? It's the lamentable result of people incautiously cleaving to the wrong side.The wrong side on this particular occasion representing an alter-image of Islamist jihad. As for the material damage, what does one mosque more or less matter? No, this is no insult to Allah, the destruction of one of His houses of worship. It's just the way things are done. There. Rafah's Ibn Taymea mosque will be rebuilt. With EU funding.
And it's a great pity that there occurred that disruption. Just when Gazans were accustoming themselves to the earlier fundamentalist dictates of Hamas, intent on ruling Gaza as a respectable fundamentalist Islamic state should be ruled.
(Along comes a critic, with the absurd name of 'father of Mohammed' - Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi - to claim, absurdly that Hamas's rule has been found wanting.)
So is it much wonder that some deluded cleric feeling he was infinitely better positioned to serve Islam than Hamas came along to preach his version of universal and fanatically-inspired (al-Qaeda connections, you know) Islam? A torch of hope and righteousness unto the benighted. That kind of arrogance needed to be addressed.
Well, Fatah did that too, and look where it got them. Humiliation. Not to mention some rather unfortunate deaths. The worst thing, however, being loss of control of Gaza. Some justice that represented. But the alpha sect and tribe proved its mettle, and that, quite simply, was that.
Until along came Abdel-Latif Moussa, declaring (rather prematurely) his own, personal Islamic rule. That gentle and devout man was obviously, albeit pious to a tender degree, most impetuous and unmindful of the hornet's nest he stirred.
Labels: Middle East, Religion, Traditions
posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 17, 2009
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