How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future

bookcoverAccording to this book, Shia Muslims, the second largest sect of Islam, are gathering strength and cementing cross-border ties with fellow Shia following the fall of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The author believes that the changing trend of unification and collaboration could potentially lead to a new map of the Middle East. Started during the Iranian Islamic Revolution under Ayatollah Khomeini, the neo-Shea movement has mandated to fend off Sunni dominance, warranting socio-political changes across the Islamic world.

My 2 cents, “if the conflict is within Islam, wouldn’t it then open the doors for non-Muslims to walk in and take charge.â€? Americans for one have mastered the Roman strategy of “divide and conquerâ€?, if memory serves me right, CIA was operative in Iraq long before the 1980 war between Iran and Iraq. Getting these two sects to fight now might be all the more easier for America with its occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan and of course the big ally Israel pissing on the rest of Middle East. “Wouldn’t they want conflicts within Islam?”

Then what good is it for Shea and Sunni’s to go after each others throat when the Western theocracies are right on the fence waiting for one such opportunity? Stupidity is a trait that Social Darwinists overlooked while coining the phrase “Survival of the Fittest.� Need I say more?

Goat Panties and Suggestive Veggies

goatPeople are killed for no reason in Iraq, and then there are times when the reason for killings are so bizarre, it, it simply makes no sense.

Take for instance, in the rural western Iraqi village of Gazalia, a shepherd was killed for failing to diaper his goats, apparently it results in sexual tension among men and according to Sharia law, the site of a naked goat is tempting enough to warrant killing the shepherd. Think that is crazy, in another case, a grocer and three others were murdered and fire bombed simply for not following the Sharia way of arranging vegetables, apparently because the grocer arranged it differently and for the profoundly repressed, “suggestive.�

Don’t believe me, list to the story on NPR.