On tenth day of Ashura Muslims and in particular Shias commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson about whom he said “Hussein is from me and I am from Hussein”.
Pictures of Shias beating themselves with hands and chains will be beamed around the world by western media, happy to perpetuate the myth that Muslims are violent.
And this year Americans in particular will be paying a closer attention, after the Oscar winning Jewish Director Oliver Stone’s son Sean Stone astonished America by articulating his conversion to being a Shia and accused Piers Morgan who tried to portray him as some nutter, ‘a warmonger’ while defending Iran.
What the TV screens will not be showing is the grief and pain felt by the Shias for the death of a leader about whom Mahatma Ghandi said “I learnt from Hussein on how to achieve victory while being oppressed”.
Shias are also mourning a time in history when the Prophets message and teachings were subverted by the forces against humanity, which not only attempted to wipe out the whole of the Prophets family, but ensured that every direct descendant who followed the 11 Imams were all systematically put into prisons and murdered.
The followers of the ahlalbayt (the 12 infallible Imams) as they are called have tried throughout years of persecution to keep the practices of the Prophet alive as well as the incident where Prophet Mohammed stood in Ghadeer e Qum where he picked up Imam Ali’s hand and said “to whomever I am the Mawla (supreme authority) so is Ali the Mawla” in front of over 120,000 pilgrims (a historically recorded event)
Today Shia’s have grown in strength because of the rise of Iran after the Iranian revolution in 1979, however the need to ‘wipe them out’ is still continuing.
According to Director for External Affairs at ‘The Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern and African Studies’ Shias is the real threat. In 2009 he said:
“Israel is now a strange partner of the Sunni Arab states,”
“Israel is now a strange partner of the Sunni Arab states,”
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan however this alliance according to him is an “alliance of anxiety for Israel” as the Sunni Arabs are not as confident as the Shias and Iran and as a result he believes that Israel cannot rely on the Sunni states in the same way that the Sunni states can rely on Israel.
This alliance must come as a real surprise to critics of Israel, who are aware the lengths the Zionists have gone to pump millions into Islamophobic think tanks and organisations like (Rand, Centre for Social Cohesion) and through the pro Israel media to misrepresent Islam and ferment hatred.
Their propaganda has been so successful that a 2011 Pew research poll found that 40% of US adults think that Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions. Even though a Europol study of terrorism found 99.6% of terrorist attacks from 2006 to 2008 were committed by non Muslims.
However the issue of misrepresentation not only involves Muslims but all who question the status quo, as European groups realised at the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement which according to the media had nothing to do with Zionists bankers and the Federal Reserve Bank, but rather people annoyed at losing their jobs.
In order to understand why Arab States are in an unspoken alliance with Israel, we need to look at the growth of sectarianism and why Shias are seen as the biggest threat.
In a documentary about Iraq war, an American soldier said something on the lines of…
“We don’t have a problem with the Sunnis it’s the Shias who we are afraid of its something to do with their leader who was killed centuries ago and they are willing to lay their life down for him”.