Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Saudi coalition

And the poor guys create coalitions thinking that adding one dictatorship to another would legitimize things like it does when it involves combining leaderships selected by the free will of the people. To many of them even Iran and its locked system sounds like a big jump in democracy. The Egyptian dictator also participated in that coalition apparently demanding his loyalty share in the process of taking down or preventing a democracy if that is really what those Shia in Yemen are doing.




Trap in Yemen?

I have not been watching the events there and don't have any special knowledge regarding the forces involved. However based on the timing and the ease with which the rebels suddenly started to achieve success it seems there is a good probability that the Saudi Government arranging with the opposing forces there to retreat tempting the rebels to advance in order to have whatever excuse resulting from that to attack and weakens those rebels. 

Only allowed on the Shia

This invasion of another country to suppress a specific group happens only to the Shia and twice by the Saudi Government. 

We keep hearing all the complaining and see all this reaction for the like of those bigotry claims regarding Iran's connection. Imagine what could have had happened had Iran done similar invasions and singling out one specific group to suppress.

The CBS news anchor conveyed from the Saudis or those with them the claim that the rebels there are worse than ISIS and I don't know on what facts that was based? Did they invade and occupy another country with a democratic system like ISIS did in Iraq? No they did not do that to even the Saudi dictatorship neighboring them. Did they carry attacks on civilians? On the contrary, it seems, as usual, the Shia are again the victims of attacks on civilians while holding themselves from responding in the same criminal manner and generalizing on the innocent in the other side.Did they abduct people and execute them like ISIS did? The answer again seems to be no. 
But , like what happened when going into Iraq with creating the belief that the world will end if Shia take power before they do anything , again we see that this group was prejudged from this stage to be worse than ISIS and that shows the level of bigotry toward the Shia there.

And what about the Shia in Bahrain demanding a democratic representation? Were those people also worse than ISIS when the Saudi army flexed its muscles on those civilians? What other country in the region shares with the Saudi government this  entitlement to interfere in another country against a specific group despite not being attacked itself?

If the democratic countries are allowing this for the sake of justice and democracy then there should be a specific objectives and path leading to that target and not simply just allowing the Saudi government to single out the group it hates to weaken.

A statement from a White House related person stated that they are not trying to build a Jeffersonian democracy there. Why not? That sounds to me like a discrimination. Democracy is for all people. The difficulty the US faced in Iraq is the result of projections stemming from an identity complex that caused you to even lack the capacity to act with adult recognition and discerning to things there.             



Friday, March 27, 2015

News organizations and their reporting on Shia Muslims 6

I have just saw a news network labeling the rebels in Yemen as "Pro-Iran" and I wonder what makes them deserve such labeling more than any other group there to be called "Pro- Saudi"? 



    

News organizations and their reporting on Shia Muslims 5

So now so many media are claiming that the Zaidy Shia in Yemen are supported by Iran. Did they do their homework on that or is it that they just don't care about whatever value remains in their reporting after the like of hacking stories by North Korea to Sony and China to some insurance companies? Did they see what deserves to be called "support" in general? Was whatever they found at a level higher than that of the connection of the Saudi Government to other groups for it to be singled out? 


This is the second time I see Saudi Arabia uses its usual Iran interference allegation as an excuse to do a direct and sever interference to suppress the Shia in neighboring countries. I try not to stand with injustice anywhere and by whoever.So if the Shia rebels in Yemen are against the justice, and democracy which follows from justice, side then I clearly don't stand with them. But lets not forget that the Saudi System is one of the worst on earth and does not give a rat's behind for those principles. So it should be made sure by the united nations and the democratic countries that any interference in Yemen should be for achieving the justice and democracy goals not any other thing the Saudi government want to do.     

Thursday, March 26, 2015

News organizations and their reporting on Shia Muslims 4

The audacity of these Iran effect accusations ,which suggests the level of refusing to accept the existence of Shia Muslims, is that , like the case in Iraq, are even applied on the majority by some in the minority before and after the US entered  Iraq and started repeating the same bigotry.  
You would think that eight years of war between Iraq and Iran in which it is said that a million people died would at least lower the need for such bigotry, but no.

By the way, the Shia in Iraq and Iran are sometimes called Shia Ethna Asharry which translate to Twelve Shia because they believe in twelve people assigned by God to be successors of the Muslims Prophet. The Zaidy Shia share two or three of those then diverge.