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line what you can go check out now is a very interesting poll pdf file look thru it i think it will give you a very interesting view it is worth your time and you are officially reading an award winning blog i have won a bloggy award yay me posted by salam at 10 40 pm saturday march 06 2004 i am sorry please accept my apologies for not updating my mind doesn t seem to be able to multi task any more i am in filming mode and with a certain person here with a whip in her hand i can t even get a chance to check my emails karbala was one of these things i will never ever forget in my whole life i don t care what you think of the rituals that are practiced the fact is that the atmosphere was beautiful peacful and so much passion and devotion it brings tears to your eyes i have seen things that left me baffled for hours i my mother and my cousin were out of the center of the city running by the third mortar it was the last two that did the damage and it happened near the shrine of abbas not al hussein where we were staying i am not sure i am more phased out by the rituals i saw and witnessed there or by the attacks and their consequences i have gone thru the footage i have from the 4 days over and over again the world being a very unfair place i can t show you the 400 minutes i have and tell you about them people will chop it down to 12 minutes there was such a feeling of solidarity and unity and peacefulness you had to be there to feel it people were sleeping on the street stands giving out everything from tea and milk in the morning to full meals for free 2 million people squeezed into this one place and not even a small fight i frikkin met an ayatollah a real life ayatollah i watched him eat a banana and then he put his hands on my shoulder and prayed that i get married soon my mom was beside herself with joy and i just couldn t stop laughing the heretic fagot getting a blessing from an ayatollah that is how great those four days were i have to go now and finish all the things my lovely producer asked me to do otherwise i will be whipped tomorrow raed always says that there is a small tiny salam who wants to believe in the existance of a deity inside of me during those couple of days in karbala i was being confronted with this issue every minute and wherever i look i am so glad i was there wish you were with me so that you don t only remember the horrible images we saw on tv of the site of the attack but to also remeber that 4 hours later people were back and continued with the rituals of that day now my friendly producer will lock me in a small dark room they call an editing suite posted by salam at 1 00 am wednesday march 03 2004 salam i was trying to call your phones all the day long i hope u didnt die in the karbala explosions i m coming back to baghdad next week posted by raed jarrar at 1 05 am wednesday february 25 2004 ummm we have arabic big brother now the plot to make the whole world eat and watch the same things is going pretty well don t you think posted by salam at 2 53 am raed you should have been here today how could miss out ashura well you still have 5 more days to get your ass back to iraq and in karbala we are approaching a very important date in the shia calendar this is something that has not been publicly commemorated for the last 25 years today is the third day in muharam in 7 more days the shia imam saint al hussain will be killed in a battle that almost wiped out all the prophet s male descendants but one zain al abideen and you ask who was going to wipe out mohammed s lineage it was the sunni caliph yazeed go grab that beer it is story time again this is the second part of the what s up with those shia and sunni dudes story if you don t feel like a story scroll down to the pictures so i assume you have been reading the blog and already know that the prophet announced before his death that whoever sees a leader in him should see a leader in his cousin ali which the shia took as a sign that the rule of the growing muslim empire should be in the hands of the descendants of the prophet things didn t happen like that the revolution that was led by an orphaned man to make all believers equal in the eyes of allah wasn t gaining much ground with the big rich families of mecca if you have read salman rushdie s satanic verses you ll see how he hinted at the disgruntlement of the big rich families they were calling it a revolution of water bearers and slaves this is not just fiction in a book titled the political left and right in islam please excuse me for forgetting the name of the author it is suggested that after all of mecca became muslin willingly or by force the older tribes were not going to allow the rule of this growing institution go to the hands of an unknown an orphan this gap between the old and the new power the author suggests has always been at the heart of sunni shia trouble in the early days of the caliphate four caliphs down the line as we get into the ummayad period things are getting more and more decadent and when yazeed comes to become caliph in damascus he wants to make sure that there will not be anyone from the prophet s family to contest his right to the throne he sends someone to kill al hussain the next in line of imams in the mean time al hussain is getting messages from kufa iraq telling him that they support his cause and wish he would come to kufa and lead the believers there seeing that he has no choice al hussain moves to iraq he takes with him all his family the prophet s family and followers of al hussain i e shia it is a small entourage since he is expecting the help of the iraqis in kufa 72 men with their women and children before he arrives a messenger is sent to check things out in kufa the messenger is a family member the first day he arrives all the city prays behind him a sign of respect the sunni caliph sends his envoy to warn the people of kufa from following this man when the messenger comes to pray the next day no one from the city is in the mosque and when he is killed and hung from a minaret no one from kufa rises to avenge his death or bring him down for burial bad sign for the shia on their way but with no wireless internet the word doesn t get to al hussain he doesn t know that those people who have pledged support are all hot air he falls into a trap surrounded for 10 days his few followers try to protect him and die one after the other zain al abideen was too ill to fight and this saved him from death the story of the battle has been told on the blog before will dig into the archives and post a link and some of it after this event islam was split into two for ever and the shia have lamented the death of al hussain since then every 10th of muharam the first islamic month is a day of deep mourning for shia he is seen as a symbol of shia struggle and the story with all its gory details gets told and re enacted every year there is also a deep sense of regret for abandoning al hussain in his most difficult hours hence the flagellation why do they start 7 days before the actual day of the death that is because so many of the imams died on that day there is no chance to commemorate all their deaths in one day the laments on each day tell the story of one of the imams building up to the big day on the 10th of muharam the day of ashura the scenes i saw today are things i have never seen before my mother and uncles would tell me about them but the event was banned i my mother and cousin will be going to karbala for a week i hope i will be able to take pictures and blog from there this is of such significance to shia in iraq this year it should not be missed you said freedom of expression well this event is going to test the boundaries of this freedom you can bet your ass that the sunnis will see this year s ashura as a provocation and you can bet your friend s ass that the shia will use it to provoke poking the hornets nest is a very close image so we be there wearing black and a pious beard with a camera in hand about today s pictures they were taken in baghdad kadhimiya district the processions took place near the imam kadhim shrine i had a video camera in my hand and although it is nifty and has a place for a memory stick to allow for still photos i forget to press that button if you want to see the really interesting stuff you will have to wait for the film which will hopefully air on newsnight besides you need to hear the sound of the drums and those metal chains going down as always click to see big main street in kadhimiya leading to the shrine it has two gold domes the child of al hussain was killed at that battle as well that is why there will always be a procession of kids the entrance of the kadhim shrine these are called hodej they will be lighted up with candles at night mysterious blogger turned reuters journalist g doing what he does best scrweing up my shot he should get young iraqi journalist of the year award you should see his photography this thing is called a zirengi i have no idea what it symbolizes but every group of lamenters has one sometimes they looked worried sometimes they lookes bemused but in general the american soldiers managed to keep a low profile at this event posted by salam at 1 23 am saturday february 21 2004 i am concentrating all my efforts on growing a beard these days i read on a web site somewhere that if i sit in total darkness with little balls made of aluminium foil stuck in my ears it will grow faster i have been giving it a try for a week now it is not working i sit in front of the mirror for hours willing my beard to grow happy islamic new year y all now go easy with that non alcoholic champagne posted by salam at 7 36 pm thursday february 12 2004 the first time i got an email from an american soldier in iraq i wasn t sure how to react these days i read a couple of us soldier blogs and a couple even send me emails every now and then i was answering one of them from mr somewhere in the north of iraq when i decided later to post it on the blog so here it is and on a more personal note no mr somewhere in the north of iraq it doesn t bother me that you are one of the american occupiers because i don t think of you as an occupier i know you would much rather be home and you are stuck here because someone said this is where you should be this is what he wrote what s the right answer is it to have driven saddam out which requires a war but with a truly united worldwide coalition along with a master plan for the post war is there another way to have removed saddam or should he have been left in power isolated from the international community and basically allowing the maintenance of the status quo although i know most of iraq wanted him gone is it realistic to believe that iraqis would have pushed saddam from power i think but don t know that saddam had consolidated so much power over the masses that it would have been impossible for iraqis themselves to deal the death knell to his regime that would pass on to his progeny basically should the issue of iraq been left 100 to the iraqis from the beginning no war on another note is america too powerful doesn t it usually do good things with its power or does it screw up as much as it helps he doesn t believe in easy small talk does he it is pointless to debate what should have been done there was a war almost a year ago and we have to deal with its consequences there was time for debate much earlier the powers that be made their decisions whether right or wrong at that time i am a very pragmatic person raed s nickname for me was salam the pragmapig i deal with the shit as it happens never a moment of regret well almost but for the sake of debate dear readers please give me a chance to empty my mailbox before flooding it with hatemail otherwise your passionately written critique will bounce what annoyed me most in the whole build up to the war was the act the us administration put on the way they seemed almost surprised at how much of a baddy saddam has been and how it was time to slap him on the hand and wash his mouth with soap for all the bad things he has done the various documents that were produced to show how much of a bully he has been on the international playground were treated as if they were so new and startling that was just silly what the us administration didn t put in those records and documents was the extent of its own involvement in building up this monster and now that he has grown bigger than they thought he could they thought it was time to get rid of him you ask is there another way to have removed saddam well yes but that would have involved something the us administration didn t see necessary at the time it should have happened right after the first gulf war the scene was set and all the players were ready to play there part in iraq more than two thirds of iraq was out of saddam s control there was a sense that people have achieved things for themselves truly proud revolutionaries not the scared people who had to be helped by an outsider they are now but what did the us administration choose to do it pooped on them it allowed saddam to start a persecution of shia that was so extreme it left the country with deep scars that will take a long time to heal even the political situation would have been easier to handle the rift between shia and sunnis wasn t as big as it is now the country still had its secular educated class which now is all over the world having turned to political and economic refugees trying to escape the claws of saddam and the difficult economic situation in iraq after the war and the sanctions but as i said it is no use crying over spilt milk we have to deal with what we have now you say or should he have been left in power isolated from the international community and basically allowing the maintenance of the status quo well that is exactly what the bush administration chose to do at the time isn t it but that policy didn t just isolate saddam but the iraqi people and gave him more power over the destinies of iraqis we became so dependant on a government that wasn t at all fit to take care of us anyway all that doesn t matter now saddam is gone thanks to you was it worth it be assured it was we all know that it got to a point where we would have never been rid of saddam without foreign intervention i just wish it would have been a bit better planned does this mean that i will be wearing a i heart bush t shirt no because i don t believe there is any altruism in politics and the way he sees the world scares me what i do really and sincerely hope for is that the day you and other soldiers and us civilians here don t have to stay behind those high concrete walls isn t too far away and that you feel safe walking in the streets without those hard and heavy flak jackets so that we can sit and talk about these things in a karrada street tea shop there are many challenges iraqis have to face now so please stick around a bit longer and...
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