Middle East Focus: Massacres of Shi'as: Illustrative Reactions of the Arab Media and Regimes………….

Arabia Deserta

Massacres of Shi'as: Illustrative Reactions of the Arab Media and Regimes………….

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Wahhabi massacre in Afghanistan
“What do the bombings say about the evolving nature of the Afghan insurgency? On the one hand, they don't seem to be the work of the Afghan Taliban at all, but of a Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami (LeJ-Alami), whose specialty is assassinating Shi'a in Pakistan and who claimed credit for the attacks. LeJ-Alami was behind the kidnapping and execution of Taliban godfather and spymaster Col. Imam (despite Taliban efforts to stop it), and is seen by many in the Afghan Taliban leadership as dangerous and uncontrollable. In fact, in a rare move, the Afghan Taliban issued a strongly worded condemnation of the attacks. Over the years, the Afghan Taliban have assiduously strived to portray themselves as a national movement, representing the aspirations of all Afghan ethnicities and sects. They have developed detailed guidelines for their foot soldiers and field commanders, put forth political representatives to explore the possibility of talks, and have even begun to circulate documents that examine in a serious way the nature of a post-American government. One document, meant internally for the Taliban leadership, decried the country's ethnic and sectarian divides and declared they should "try to bring an environment of fraternity among all [ethnicities] of Afghans………."

A horrible crime in Kabul and Maza-e-Sharif, typical of the violence visited on innocent civilians by Salafi Wahhabi groups in Pakistan and Iraq, and now in Afghanistan. Tens of civilians are murdered daily in these places. One indication of the moral bankruptcy of the Arab system, especially the Wahhabi Salafi establishment that created all these groups, is that they tend to ignore these massacres. There is never any outrage expressed in the media for these killings, but they do express outrage when a desperate citizen spits on a picture of some Saudi or Bahraini potentate. That selective indifference has been the case in Iraq for years now, as well as in Pakistan.
The motive is pure sectarian hatred, as taught by the Wahhabi Salafi creed rooted in the mother country of Salafism, Saudi Arabia. Other (non-Salafi) Arabs don’t seem to be motivated much either by the daily murders of fellow Arabs in Iraq. It could be a latent, subconscious form of sectarianism. It very likely is the effect of the sectarian official and semi-official Saudi (and other quasi-Salafi Gulf) media that dominate the Arab markets now. No wonder some desperate but misguided Shi’a Arabs look outside the Arab region for support (not support and intervention of the sort that the Libyans got and some Syrian and other Arabs are demanding from NATO).
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