Shiite Blood Is Boiling!
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| DenverPost.com |
The Middle East, or a goodly portion of it, is ablaze. If it is not ablaze with hatred between the two major sects of Islam -- Shia and Sunni -- it is ablaze with hatred between regimes. And it is blazing with fury between the populations and their leaders. Social, religious and military ferment has erupted almost universally in the Levant and North Africa. Not that matters between various Muslim countries of the area were ever sanguine.
From the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia came a conflict launched against Israel, the region's non-Muslim interloper. If there is one issue that can bring cohesion to the Muslim nations it is the unforgivable presence of a Jewish state in a geography consecrated to Islam.
If Israel were to vanish it would not bring peace to the Middle East; Arab states distinguish themselves by their mutual defaming of one another.
And within individual countries the plurality of peoples, enclaves of Arab Christians pre-dating Islam, along with Islamic sects, Kurds and Jews that have lived in those Arab countries for millennia give additional cause for bitter unrest, each recognizing the other as inferior to themselves, all however, firmly trod upon by their various oppressive dictators.
Now that Syria's Alawite regime has imploded with its majority Sunni population revolting against the minority Shia rule of Bashar al-Assad, the extent of a tyrannical ruler's compulsively brutal oppression against his own has been laid bare by modern media. And nor can the rebels who oppose the continued rule by their oppressors claim any moral high ground; both are fully engaged in atrocities.
At the onset of the Syrian protests when questions were asked about the dangers involved in destabilizing the government, President al-Assad insisted that the rebels represented terrorists, Islamists, that should they ever gain the upper hand, the entire Middle East would become a vast conflagration. Ironically, in warning against terrorist and Islamist incursions, the nation most receptive to aiding and abetting both, has lent its Republican Guard al Quds advisers to al-Assad.
Along with the dedicated volunteers representing Hezbollah, a terrorist-militia creature of Iran which has now abandoned the fiction of non-involvement and which now marches and slaughters alongside the Syrian army, to gain the upper hand in recovering rebel-held cities and towns within Syria back into the regime's control. In so doing, Shia Hezbollah has infuriated Sunnis both in Lebanon and Syria.
The result being that Lebanon now is under attack from the Free Syrian Army, hitting back at Shia-majority, Hezbollah-supporting portions of Lebanon whose president has demanded that Hezbollah withdraw from Syria, to little avail. A car bomb exploded in south Beirut in the heart of Hezbollah's support area, wounding 53 people. This represents Sunni-rebel retaliation against Shia Hezbollah's intrusion into Syria.
This is a war to the end conducted by two versions of Islam. And on the very day of the start of Ramadan, a commercial/residential neighbourhood in Beir el-Abed was struck, hitting the Islamic Coop, a large supermarket packed tight with holiday shoppers. "The explosion was so strong I thought it was an Israeli air raid. My wife was sleeping in bed and all the glass fell on her, injuring her in the mouth, arms and legs", said Mohamad al-Zein.
Residents of Dahyeh, Hezbollah's stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, are at boiling point in their sectarian rage. Sunni politicians were roundly cursed, along with the Syrian rebels. The Lebanese Shia Hezbollah supporters characterized Sunni politicians and rebels as Israeli agents; no more extreme curse could conceivably be imagined.
"Shiite blood is boiling!", they shouted.
Labels: Conflict, Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Revolution, Syria
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, July 11, 2013
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