"Islamist Militias Patrolling Basra" from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette, with thanks to Saturnine:
BASRA, Iraq -- Sheikh Assad al-Basri says there's no need to worry that he and his Islamist militiamen might recreate a repressive Iranian-style theocracy in Iraq.That's because the Islamic Republic of Iran is far too liberal, according to Basri, the leading local representative of rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
"Only 5 percent of Iranians abide by real Islamic laws," said Basri, who boasts that he and his cohorts already have blown up most of Basra's liquor stores, punished "decadent picnickers" and imposed Islamic dress codes on women. "The rest of Iranians are corrupt. Look, there are drugs and girls who don't wear hijab [covering] well in Iran."
Iraq's new Shiite-led national government vows it will respect and tolerate all of the country's religious and ethnic groups and will create a model democratic constitution for a region gripped by Islamic fervor.
But on the streets of this once-liberal port city -- which years ago featured a row of casinos and bars along its waterfront -- Islamist militias already have begun imposing a harsh version of Islamic law that has shocked many residents.
"They have managed to impose a republic of fear," said Yasser Qassim, a local journalist who publishes stories under a pen name out of fear for his safety.
Moderate Islamists -- which include Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari's Dawa Party -- won 37 of 41 local council seats during the Jan. 30 elections, with secular former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party getting only four...
Basri claimed 12,000 local Sadr militiamen have been trained for combat and "are ready to mobilize in case of a crisis." Residents say they already are mobilized...
"They are everywhere," said Muhamad Nassir, a physician who heads Basra Maternity and Pediatric Hospital. "Some of them recently visited our hospital to try to convince us to forbid male doctors from curing female patients."
His colleagues from a nearby hospital -- renamed Sadr Hospital after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime-- complained that Sadr's followers have hung posters of the young cleric inside the wards.
"They watch us," said one doctor, who requested anonymity to protect his safety. "I have received a few death threats. I am afraid to talk. To protect myself, I bought a pistol, which I hide under my shirt."
Basra officials concede the militiamen are creating problems, but they are hesitant to crack down.
"We are going through a sensitive time and we must be cautious and careful," said Muhamad Saadoun al-Ebaadi, the chief of the new provincial council and a member of a moderate Islamist group.
Fear is palpable on the streets. One day three months ago, a female student from Basra University's college of sciences was ordered to cover her hair. She refused to comply. Three days later she was found dead on the road to her house, said her classmates and professors...
As the saying from the 'Wizard of Oz' put it:
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
Theocratic tyranny? No theocratic tyranny brewing here!
Just us good ole boys plotting a democratic state based on the Supreme Truth of Sharia Law.
Nothing to worry about, here.
Keep on moving.
Keep moving.
At last count, the costs of the Bush regime's chiliastic democraticization of Islamofascism is at $300,000,000,000. All but the brain dead must admit that all the human and material costs - including using concrete bombs to avoid civilian casualties - paid to end-run direct action against the Islamofascist menace, is legitimating that perverse ideology. Why? Because Bandar Bush's Saudi benefactors embrace a variety of Islamofascism. No? On Sept. 11, 2001, over 19,000 Islamofascists were rotting in Egyptian jails. Bush-Wolfowitz' inclusivist policy toward "political Islam" has led to the release of over half of those animals.
Patent verity: the only way to win a war against Islamofascists is to kill Islamofascists.
Search "political Islam" on al-Ahram's website if you want to learn of the usurious treatment of the dhimmi government in Washington.
It's listening to these characters trying to turn my city into a 'Basra in north america' that concerns me.
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It seems that the only way to eradicate these militias is to arm everyone, and I mean everyone: students, doctors, office clerics or what have you. By the first signs of trouble, the civilians will need to eliminate the repressive militias themselves. There is really no other option.
"there are drugs and girls who don't wear hijab [covering] well in Iran."
Yes, those women acting like they are human beings with the right to feel the sunshine on their faces...they are the problem alright. How can it be that this insane death cult has survived this long?
"His colleagues from a nearby hospital -- renamed Sadr Hospital after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime-- complained that Sadr's followers have hung posters of the young cleric inside the wards."
The good people of Basra are being terrorized into battered into submission.
They need to arm themselves -- knives, poison and automatic rifles. G-d knows there is an never ending river of arms available. Unfortunately there is great personal risk involved in freeing themselves and they lost a great opportunity to get a point across to these cretins. They could have told them they have a perfect place for a poster of the holy al Sadr in the operating theatre and taken them in and disposed of the whole lot of them. Or if they want to be stealth about it they can keep "drinks and snacks" for these holy defenders in a special location. Several poisons are effective -- some work quickly. Then dispose of these pieces of human garbage. Desperate times call for desperate measures. One cannot sit back and lament while butchers claim the city.
Heeeey Shurki!
How come the "noble resistance" is killing female university students?
Is allah that scared of them? See, I thought you said that there was no deliberate targeting of women or children. Please elaborate.
Geoff
It's a sad fact, but most Muslims are beyond hope. They will never renounce Islam. The problem is that Islam declared war on the rest of humanity, and we have no choice but to defend ourselves or perish. Most politicians are craven, corrupt dhimmis who seem to think that their constituents favor the second option. They will soon be replaced by patriotic, courageous representatives of the people, in the U.S. as well as Europe. For starters, I predict Howard will be elected in the UK.
Defending ourselves will require to kill Muslims by the hundreds of millions. You don't need to be a Bible prophecy researcher to see that there will be a major holy (world) war in the near future. We will wipe out most Muslims for good, but they will manage to kill many of us as well.
The Scriptures have a consistent message: God tolerates neither lies and deceit, nor the people who lie and deceive. By proclaiming Islam to be a religion of peace, Bush made our nation hateful in the eyes of God. So the good news is that most of the Muslims will be wiped out, and the rest will renounce Islam, but we will be punished as well for tolerating this Satanic religion of submission, thereby allowing it to claim as victims billions of souls, most sadly their women who are treated worse than dogs.
*CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC* Cut to torture chamber...
angry_kafir-
We have to outwit them, not just out kick them.
There are many ways to undermine a death cult, using its own inherent flaws and schisms and sectarian rivalries.
Let the beasts devour the beasts, while we colonize the solar system and keep them contained to zones of Islamic Chaos.
Maybe a few sane ones will ask to be let out to rejoin human civilization in a few generations.
Direct confrontation is just what they would like, being suicidal death lovers.
We need to use out heads, and let them lose theirs.
Quick, send Bush and Rice to explain to these folks that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance(fully compatible with liberal democracy too), so their minds must of gotten hijacked by some un-Islamic bad people.