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Sunni/Shi'ite Jihad Update from Iraq. By Aqeel Hussein and Damien McElroy for the Telegraph:
Saddam Hussein's execution has inspired a gruesome cycle of revenge, with scores of Shia Muslims found hanged from lampposts in Baghdad.The residents of the city's Haifa Street will long remember the events of Sunday morning. As shop owners raised their shutters and stall holders set out their stock, three minibuses roared to a halt.
Gunmen jumped out and pulled blindfolded prisoners on to the street. Ropes were tied to lampposts and electricity poles. Those hostages who resisted were shot. Others who were still alive had nooses tied around their necks and were then suspended in mid air to choke to death.
All were left hanging, and the victims received little sympathy from those who witnessed the events.
"We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up and some were shot in the head," Imad Atwan, a supermarket worker said.
"Altogether there were 23 bodies. We are all Sunni people here so we supported the gunmen. Some of them are the guards of our neighbourhood.
"Somebody called the police and the guards waited to shoot at them when they arrived.
"Half an hour after the police fled, they came back with the army and took the bodies away."
Capt Mohammad Salim, of the interior ministry, said: "We have gathered 102 Shia bodies and believe that 90 per cent of them were taken hostage for Saddam Hussein's execution and then found hanging from poles by ropes."
Posted by Robert at January 11, 2007 5:43 PM
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So much for the religion of peace.
Why were Jews able to recover from far worse depredations with no help and little sympathy from the rest of the world?
Okay, so these people can't live together, they insist on killing one another, they are obviously incapable of handling freedom.
Just how long do we have to hold their hand while they "recover" from thirty years of Saddam?
The next dictator that takes over (even if it's from Iran) should be accepted. The next time someone criticizes the US for "working with" or "supporting" dictators, we should point to Iraq and invite the naysayers to give us the benefit of their wisdom.
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at January 11, 2007 6:17 PM
"Altogether there were 23 bodies. We are all Sunni people here so we supported the gunmen. Some of them are the guards of our neighbourhood."
This is the mentality of most Muslims -- whether in Baghdad or Paris. Violence against others is embeded in their beliefs as Muslims.
No doubt the shop keepers that support the gunmen are those "peaceful Muslims" we hear so much about. No, they don't throw the bombs, they just stand by and support those that do.
Anyone that believes that you can ever have a civilized Democracy in a Muslim country had better think again. Democracy requires a moral population that respects the rights of others. And you won't find either in any Muslim country, where "morality" is turned upside down on its head, and "Respect for others" means death to anyone who doesn't agree with you.
Sadly, the Sadaam Husseins of the Muslim world are the only ones who know the truth about their own people: it's State terror or mob terror -- and no in-betweens.
Posted by: rational
at January 11, 2007 6:28 PM
I guess this posting could be taken as a sequel to yesterday's "How does Islam require POWs to be treated?" posting.
One of the "vast majority of moderates" said:
"We watched as all these blindfolded men were hung up..."
I'm sure. Perhaps cheered as well as watched?
Posted by: special_guest at January 11, 2007 6:53 PM
where is this muslim brotherhood? send that stupid cleric to iraq if he is a shite, send him to a sunni stornghold.
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at January 11, 2007 7:10 PM
Will someone please explain why, civil war among these animals is not good for us?
Posted by: kiko at January 11, 2007 7:12 PM
The other day, on CNN, there was a story about hospitals in Iraq. The story opened with a black-clad woman screaming at the top of her lungs. Why? Because they had taken her son to a hospital. The problem? She was Sunni and the hospital was Shiite. She does not believe her son will survive his hospital treatment.
Later the reporter went around the wards inside a Sunni hospital -- all the doctors were terrified -- terrified of their Shiite brethren in control of government forces. (Most doctors in Iraq have already fled, only a few remain.)
One Iraqi patient (whose identity was not revealed) was sitting on a hospital bed -- obviously the victim of torture -- he had acid burns all over his body and whip marks. He was too frightened to tell the reporters what he had endured. I guess that's what happens when you've got a Shiite revenge party in control (and they appoint their uneducated, non-doctors as heads of the Iraqi "health" dept.)
The country is a disaster -- thanks in large part to Islamic revenge-takers and the "religion" of "peace."
Posted by: J.S. at January 11, 2007 7:40 PM
And these people want to be taken seriously by the rest of civilized world.Only in the realm of the animal control!!!
Posted by: OLD SARGE at January 11, 2007 8:03 PM
Moqtada
Your turn
Posted by: Infidel Pride
I second that motion.
Posted by: Bonniea at January 11, 2007 8:28 PM
Shouldn't there be a new news look at Islam as everyday it is the same murder, mayhem and outrage.
So when something really strange happens like, "Muslim saves life", "Muslims Stay Home at Peace" and "Dog Bites Muslim and Lives" are what should be reported as Muslims acting civil is a news story of rare review.
at January 11, 2007 8:35 PM
Maybe like a muslim moderate throwing his body on top of a suicide bomber to protect his fellow man, 3 2 1 ,ok i'm awake now.
Posted by: OLD SARGE at January 11, 2007 8:42 PM
It is clear that to the Muslim world, "justice" is simply a synonym for vengeance, and is demanded over grievances both real and imagined.
PMK, I think I'm coming to agree with you. Iraq will not enjoy democracy until a critical mass of its population becomes Protestant Christian.
Posted by: Kepha at January 11, 2007 8:46 PM
Savages, the lot of 'em.
Posted by: Mo at January 11, 2007 9:44 PM
The victims received little sympathy from those who witnessed the events.
This is very revealing. The regular Iraqis, the people who Bush claims that are no different from us and very different from the terrorists, had NO problem whatsoever with random mass murder. These are the same people who are coming here to America from the Middle East as 'refugees' or 'diversity visa' recipients.
Posted by: george_rem at January 11, 2007 10:08 PM
Nice to see Muslims building up their nation after being freed from the heavy hand of a brutal dictator, isn't it?
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at January 11, 2007 10:28 PM
I bet the Iraqi version of George Washington was leading the brave Iraqi freedom-hangers. Here's the Light Unto the Muslim Nations moment of the day.
Posted by: special_guest at January 11, 2007 10:40 PM
george_rem says it best here in my opinion.
This is very revealing. The regular Iraqis, the people who Bush claims that are no different from us and very different from the terrorists, had NO problem whatsoever with random mass murder. These are the same people who are coming here to America from the Middle East as 'refugees' or 'diversity visa' recipients.
Posted by: george_rem
Ain't that the real truth of the matter? Sure let's send in some more troops to ....to do what? Oh, I guess they are holding back the Iranians from taking over Iraq for the shiites--but at what a cost. We don't have the stomach to do what it will take to achieve order there. Only a Saddam-like tyrant can have order in a land filled with such "islam." Islam, what a curse!
Posted by: BB at January 11, 2007 11:04 PM
Why do we care about the internal Shia/Sunni violence?
Would we have cared had there been a civil war in Nazi Germany?
Posted by: NicephorusPhocas at January 11, 2007 11:51 PM
What is more shocking than the savagry of over 100 people hanged from light polls in a major city is the barbaric attitude of the rest of the Islamic world. There is no outrage over this savagry. The outrage is over the presence of American troops trying to put an end to such savage acts.
After two thousand years Islam has established a world wide culture of barbarism and savagry struggling against civilization at every step of the way. Just wait and see what happens when they whip out the nukes.
----Nossy
at January 12, 2007 1:02 AM
All this begs the obvious question' How many Mohammedans are there really?' We are being constantly told there are about 1.2 billion Mohammedans in the world and 'Islam is the fastest growing religion(Cult)'. But then we see the evidence with our own eyes which even the Dhimmi MSM cannot sweep under the carpet.
Sunni's HATE Shi'a and say they are NOT real Cultists and vice versa and they both say Ba'hais and Ahmamadis are NOT real Cultists. So how many REAL Cultists are there and which Cult sect is the REAL one and how many of them are there and is that sect the one that is 'the fastest growing religion'?
This of course does not take account of the fact that many millions of Mohammedans are Mohammedans in name only not in practice. Having had the misfortune to be born in to the cult and with no way to leave except in death.
So are the Mohammedans as usual content to lump all together to get the biggest number when in reality they hate each other. Surely the ROP does not support lying. Ooops sorry YES it does explicitly sanctioned by 'Mo the paedophile Satans prophet' in the book what he wrote.
at January 12, 2007 1:46 AM
Maybe we shouldn't pull out - just pull back and let them all go at each other. Then perhaps Iran would get sucked into the fray and we could just mop-up Tehran as the dust settles! Wonder what unforseen things might happen? Like if Turkey gets pulled in, too. Maybe pull the E.U. in with them as their oil gets cut off - heh, heh - call us cowboyz!!!
Posted by: vorsensrak at January 12, 2007 2:47 AM
I hope somebody up there calls back the Allied troops and let these zombies do what they are programmed to do - kill. saudi arabia is supporting sunnis and iran is supporting shias. If we pull out and the conflict spirals, hey iran's nukes will not be our headache anymore but saudi arabia's. Quite a beautiful scenario from where I am sitting. Think I'll pray today.
Posted by: arjun.sevak at January 12, 2007 3:32 AM
"We are all Sunni people here so we supported the gunmen."
SEE!! this is why we see no end to the violence despite our well intentioned efforts.
The people support the gunmen, not the peacekeepers.
Posted by: exsgtbrown
at January 12, 2007 6:52 AM
OH I suppose those thousands of other kidnapped victims were executed before Sadaam was hanged because of ..........?
Posted by: exsgtbrown at January 12, 2007 8:15 AM
Rational - 100%.
Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses at January 12, 2007 9:43 AM
I want to see the Middle East in flames and be damned the MSM for being so weak. If a war erupts between the Shia and Sunni by the very definition of Middle Eastern warfare it will be a shoddy affair that lasts for years and even if one side wins on the battlefield the other side will show form and start the typical Islamic guerrilla war.
At the end of it America could offer to bail out Saudi in return for many fat cheques and cheap oil. The defence contracts alone that would be involved in a regional war are likely to run into the trillions.
at January 12, 2007 5:21 PM
Has this been checked out? It sounds a lot like the stories another Hussein has been feeding the AP.
Posted by: carolh at January 12, 2007 6:25 PM
Just goes to show, that they're back in prehistoric times and haven't even discovered democracy yet.
I think we need to start out with a fresh generation: Drop the Bomb !
Posted by: Jeff at January 13, 2007 7:33 PM
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