BAGHDAD – The anger in Baghdad's main Shiite district was raw and restless after twin car bombings took more than 50 lives earlier this week. But the true measure of the rage — in Iraqi terms — came the following morning: Morgues and streets were not full of Sunnis killed in payback violence.
A night-long spree of slayings by Shiite militias would have been the likely revenge exacted for such a blast during the height of Iraq's sectarian bloodshed.
"Let's not be dragged into these plots," Sadiq al-Esawi, an aide to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, said during Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City — which was hit by the double car bombings Wednesday.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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Well I for one am grateful to hear this news, I just hope that the Shia of Iraq will remain steadfast in refusing to be dragged into doing injustices against Sunnis, as some of them have done before, looking to get revenge...
ReplyDeleteI thought they were into drillings and such. What happened?
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ReplyDeleteI just read Marion's article.I saw a Picture of Marcel Kalife a Lebanese Musician on that website and remembered how beautiful pure Arabic music can be. I only discovered this genius in last couple of years when i saw a poster for his concert in Sydney,I arrogantly disregard him as another musician playing Westernised Oriental music, until I realised he was playing in the Opera House ,which is a serious place. I googled him and boy it was magic. but it was too late to buy a ticket (Sold out)
Let me cheer you up
Zionist in disguise (anand)
ReplyDeleteThis is for you
look at 8:42 !!
ReplyDeleteNo Molly, the people responsible for the head drillings were from the Badr Brigade which is under the control of Hakim.
ReplyDeleteBlaming the drilling on Sadr was part of a movement at that time to label the Sadrists as dirty terrorists that did such things as head drillings because of there political ideas.
My wife is a big MK fan Sat days are for Marcel and Suns for Feirouz.
ReplyDeleteThat does not mean that Sadrists were not involved in some of the sectarian violence but they were not the people responsible for the torture of head drilling.
ReplyDeleteWhat about weekdays ?
ReplyDeleteWeek days we dont listen to much music.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on "ommi" the music is very nice but the vidoes is making me angry.
I like this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9fpiTY2pNI&feature=related
Did you know what the significance of that song is to me?
That those damn Sunni clerics in Lebanon chose to prosecute Khalife for singing that song as "un Islamic" because he alters a verse from the Quran. That song is a poem of Mahmoud Darweesh and he sings it for Palestine because it is abt. Palestine.
Khalife a Christian is one of the most popular musicians for the Palestinian people from all of Lebanon with of course Feirouz.
Anyway Khalife got alot of support from many different kinds of people,,,, including Fadlallah.
But still everyone wants to pretend that the shiite in Lebanon are some scary people.
The judge found him innocent.
I often liked to listen to his music when I was driving around the countryside of Lebanon...It fits the scenary...
ReplyDeleteOf course the anasheed music of the resistance was another favorite of mine when driving to South Lebanon....
Of course the anasheed music of the resistance was another favorite of mine when driving to South Lebanon....
ReplyDeleteThere is alot on youtube for Hezbollah and Hamas, maybe the ones you enjoy the most are there and you can show us?
It is beautiful music accompanied by a painfully powerful video ...
ReplyDeleteAre these anasheed by MK ?
ReplyDeleteIf so I'd like to hear some,like I said I know more about him than his music.
No VAA, I dont think Khalife has ever done anasheed.
ReplyDeleteSaif
ReplyDeleteNo I didn't , but I'm surprised.I thought Lebanon was different from KSA.
Anyway It's a beautiful song.
I found 1
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/v/NxqF3vvVMFk
Saif
ReplyDeleteCan you please tell which verse ?
I find it disturbing.
Marcel Khalife - the blasphemy trials
ReplyDeleteOn 3 November 1999, Marcel Khalife appeared before the Beirut Court of First Instance, accused of blasphemy, charges that could bring him six months to six years imprisonment.
The charge against him relates to the song ‘Oh Father, I am Yusuf’, based on a poem by the Palestinian poet and writer Mahmoud Darwish. The song, from the album Arabic Coffeepot, released in 1995, is inspired by the story of Yusuf (Joseph) and his brothers, which quotes a verse from the Koran.
The song’s vague citation of a Koran verse drew hostile attention from Dar-al-Fatwa, Lebanon’s highest Sunni authority.
A month earlier, the appointed investigating judge recommended that prosecutors bring criminal charges against Khalife for ‘insulting religious values by using a verse from the chapter of the Holy Qur’an in a song’. Sunni clerics ruled that singing verses from the Koran was ‘absolutely banned and not accepted.’
On 14 December 1999, a Lebanese court found Marcel Khalife innocent of blasphemy.
MARCEL KHALIFE ADDRESS TO THE SECOND COURT SESSION
ReplyDeletehttp://www.marcelkhalife.com/httpdocs/htmls/mkresp.html
Ok VAA, I like this song to but I never thought about it as nasheed but I suppose it is :)
ReplyDeleteSaif
ReplyDeleteI'm not really keen on cheap anasheeds,It reminds me of my early years in Lebanon. Radios in streets blasting the anasheeds and military reports telling us the Arab army arrived in Tel abib.
What lies.
I really don't know what are the names of the ones I used to listen to when I lived in Lebanon Saif. My son used to buy them at stores in the Dahiya and we would listen to them in our car driving around Lebanon, but if I runacross any that I recall I will share them with you...
ReplyDeleteFairouz was another favorite of mine to listen to driving around Lebanon.
I did run across the following one on You Tube that was done after the war in 2006 which I think many of you will appreciate when you watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pD8ZZo55o&feature=related
When I watch these kind of videos, they make me feel a sense of pride and very emotional at the same time....
This a favorite of mine by Julia Boutros:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWcRdOvH7ng&feature=related
Marion,
ReplyDeleteCan I ask you,,, are the people of the Jnoub aware of the sense of pride that the Arab world feels because of the Sayyed and the muqawama under him?
I was in Gazza during the previous wars against Lebanon and we were trapped because we were getting attacked at the same time but can you imagine that watching the fighting of Hezbollah gave us some strength to continue even despite the attacks against us?
Of course I am not just trying to paint as if the Palestinians are the biggest moral supporters of the muqawama as I clearly recall being so proud as I watched the Arab people in all the countries from the Middle East get up and go to the streets and protest against israel and pray or hope for a victory from the muqawama.
But I am wondering under those terrible times like when Israel is attacking some place,,,, did the people from the Jnoub realize that even if all the Arab leaders are dirty animals that they had the support of all the people?
The husband of my cousin had a few nasheed for Nasrallah and Hezbollah and Imam Ali on his phone to show some support for the Lebanese people during the war, when he was crossing through some checkpoints to get home after work his phone rang and it was singing one song about Nasralla and can you believe that those Israeli soldiers took him for 2 three days for having "material that supports terrorists" ??? They beat him, they called the sayyed many names to him to make him angry, and they took pictures of the second massacre in Qana and showed them to him and yaani those were images of dead children. I can tell you that those soldiers in the OPT were very proud of the damage they did in Qana.
Anyway before this husband from my cousin was released they gave him two options 1) be a spy against the Palestinian people and look for supporters of Hizb in the OPT or 2) they will arrest his son on fabricated charges that he was responsible for stealing some things from a settlement.
He told them to arrest his son because in the end he is teaching his son about honesty, dignity and honor and that is something he cant teach his son if he becomes a traitor against his own people by selling out the Palestinians.
Thats why when I see collaborators or i read about them, I have no sympathy for them.
Those animals in Gazza from Fath that went around spying and telling the Israelis where they can bomb? I dont care if they got shot in the knees one million times.
I prefer law and I prefer trial for those collaborators but in a time of war when there are bombs falling every where and you know that those pigs are responsible for all the bombing, what can you do, stop and arrest or keep resisting?
Wala listening to these songs makes me keep typing to much instead of leaving typical short messages!
Marion thanks for this link:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWcRdOvH7ng&feature=related
I like Ahibaii to but to be honest I cant listen to it one more time.
As you can imagine this was the favorite song of my wife from all the music that came after the war on Lebanon and she sang it to many times to me.
My wife has a beautiful voice and if you want my honest opinion she sounds like an angel even when she is cursing me.
But khalas I can't listen to Ahibaii one more time, she asked me to make a cd for her with this song repeated 20 times for her, I explained the "repeat" feature but she did not care.
Very sick and tired of Ahibaii,,,, but of course I still understand that it is a beautiful song and even more beautiful because the courageous Julia Butros as you know is Christian and is singing praise for the people in the Jnoub and for the resistance and using so much from Nasralla.
I hope she gets blessed in many different ways.
This made me sad and rather angry. Who are those clerics who sued him? It would be interesting to know. Could it be that they are paid by the Saudis to implement a KSA wahhabi kind of BS doctrines? Tfouh!
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Saif,
ReplyDeleteThat is horrible what happened to your cousin's husband, but I cannot say I am surprised that the Israelis did such a thing. Sometimes I thnk that many of them have no heart. And those soldiers showing the pictures of Qana to him and bragging about them just proves to me even more that Israel's massacres in Qana in 1996 and 2006 were no accident...One of my husband's nephews is married to a woman who had family at the shelter in Qana in 1996 that were killed.
I am glad to hear that your cousin's husband chose not to collaberate with the Israelis, it means he is a man of courage and principle.
IN regards to the people of the Janoub I think they know that the Sayyed and the muqawama have a lot of support from most of the people throughout the Arab world.
But what was sad for them was how some of their own fellow Lebanese, who support the so-called March 14th movement aligned with the U.S., were acting during the war. Many acted as if nothing was happening and some were even celebrating while the war was going on. Many of my relatives and friends personally witnessed this with their own eyes when they fled the south or the Dahiya and looked for places in Beirut or the mountains to find shelter in.
I had a few of my sister in laws that never left their villages during the war. One even stayed with her children and husband to help feed the muqawama in my husband's village. I believe that Israel knew where they were staying, which was at my Mother in laws house, because during the war they littered my Mother in law's garden area with close to 50 cluster bombs, and they fired a rocket at the house which went through the wall of the kitchen just above the window and landed unexploded on a large storage shelf that extended over half of the kitchen. My sister in law's husband and son's were sleeping there at the time ,because there was a lady from a next door village whose husband was killed sleeping in the living room area with my sister in law and her daughters. Another one of my sister in law's house located just above my Mother in laws had some kind of phosphorus missile land in a room of the house which burnt it black and incinerated everything in it. And another one of my sister in laws who had a house near by that was almost completely destroyed. But both of these sister in laws and their families had fled, so they were not present when it happened.
One of my brother in laws lost his apartment and his office in the Dahiya, plus his houe in the village during the war. His office contained many books of great value as he is a scholar in Islam. He was able to recover some of them but lost many others. He had a library in his house in the Janoub which was the only room that was not destroyed. It had many books that my now deceased father in law had collected through the years.
THat war was a very emotional time for us. WE were here and we felt helpless. My husband hardly went to work because he couldn;t stop watching the news, and I was either always on the computer or on the TV watching the news. We went to every demonstarion or event to show our solidairt, we even went to Washington. And he and I wwre calling Lebanon almost everyday checking on friends and family. WE never knew how his sisters and their families who stayed back in their villages were until the war was over...My husband went to Lebanon a week or two after the war ended.
And than when the war on Gaza happened last December I felt exactly the same way even though I don't know anybody in Gaza. I couldn't stop watching the TV or sitting at my computer reading the news. I went to every demonstration in the area but I did not go to Washinton because I did not know about it until the day before and because my husband was in Lebanon at the time mourning the passing of his Mother. It was also during the month of Ashura which is a period of mourning for Shia. I remember feeling even more disturbed because at least during the war on the resistance in Lebanon, most of the people were able to flee if they so chose to, but in Gaza they had no where to go...
Whenever I recall these times I feel very emotional... And I do not think I will ever get over these emotional feelings until I see some real justice...
I found the lyric of the guilty Song.
ReplyDeleteOh my father, I am Yusuf
Oh father, my brothers neither love me nor want me in their midst
They assault me and cast stones and words at me
They want me to die so they can eulogize me
They closed the door of your house and left me outside
They expelled me from the field
Oh my father, they poisoned my grapes
They destroyed my toys
When the gentle wind played with my hair, they were jealous
They flamed up with rage against me and you
What did I deprive them of, Oh my father?
The butterflies stopped on my shoulder
The bird hovered over my hand
What have I done, Oh my father?
Why me?
You named me Yusuf and they threw me into the well
They accused the wolf
The wolf is more merciful than my brothers
Oh, my father
Did I wrong anyone when I said that
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">I saw eleven stars and the sun and the moon*</span>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Saw them kneeling before me ?* </span>
* The guilty sentences
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Tgia that is correct that they are bought and sold by the Wahhabis but can anyone explain why a wahhabi wants to spend so much time suing a Lebanese man singing for Palestine?
ReplyDeleteDid you get offended?
ReplyDeleteI did not,,,,,
I dont know any people that got offended.
Just those clerics.
Some of these clerics dont have a good track record for Palestine,,,,I can still remember in KSA that they banned solidarity with Palestinians during the war on Gazza.
Marion I think we can be clear that the Lebanese muqawama has the full support of the Arab world. The only complaints anyone does hear comes from government controled television stations from the Arab dictators that get the most U.S.A. financial or political support.
ReplyDeleteBut if people want to look at the facts,,,, the truth is any time any one ever asked the Arab people who there Number 1 Arab is they always say the same thing: Nasralla.
The Israelis know these things.
Thats why during the attacks on Lebanon they was searching cells phones looking to see who had Hezbolla anasheed and pictures of Nasralla on there phones.
Some thing that I forgot to mention in the story abt. the husband of my cousin is that this was not a isolated incident. During the war on Lebanon those criminal Israeli soldiers were always checking the phones of all the people going through the military checkpoints. They were very aggresive aganst the Palestinians in Gazza and Dafaa that had protests in support of the Lebanese. They used alot of brutality against unarmed protesters. So they want to outlaw support of the Sayyed on a political level and then also on this personal level. Can you imagine that now they want to tell us what kind of music and pictures we can have on cell phones?
I think we had similar experiences with watching the wars on Lebanon and Gazza from television and internet and worrying about all those people that we love that are there. I did not sleep for many days, I took two weeks off from work because I could not concentrate or think about what I am doing.
I was very dissapointed with the unbalanced and unfair news coverage given to the war. I cant remember any American reports that were actually 100 percent accurated. All the things I saw on the television were very innacurate and unbiased and filled with so much wrong information. Seeing those things made me lose all respect for the credibility of the media in this country.
I can only say at that point the only thing I could watch from the arab channels was al Jazeera that had excellent coverage. When I wanted to feel some thing besides anger and rage I went to Abu Khalils blog. What a wonderful man that guy is: someone that does not care what he can suffer in the U.S.A. because of the all the pressure from the Israeli lobby. I have alot of respect for that man.
Great post by Asad today,,,,
ReplyDeleteSaudi-American Plot to conquer the Shi`ites
from The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب by As'ad
So the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin, has been sponsoring Ahmad Al-As`ad (the son of the last feudal Shi`ite za`im in Lebanon, Kamil Al-As`ad) in order to create an alternative to Amal and Hizbullah. Some factions in the US government have also been pinning hope on Al-As`ad who lives in Christian East Beirut. Such are his fortunes among the Shi`ites of Lebanon. Of course, it is clear from the last election that the best this man can hope is to get 1% of the Shi`ite vote in Lebanon and much of the votes that he received in the last election was in Christian villages. But Saudi intelligence chief is showering the man with many although there are no indications of any change in Shi`ite public opinion whatsover. So yesterday, the dude (who was almost in tears back in the early 1980s when he complained to me about how his father screwed up his education of which he has none) visited South Lebanon and the family's residence in Taybah. A group of demonstrators (presumably from Amal) quickly showed up with sticks and rocks and their numbers clearly exceeded the number of Al-As`ad "followers" even from the footage of LBC-TV which--following Saudi and LF orders promotes Al-As`ad. A clash ensued. But what got my attention is the names of "the Shi`ite followers of Ahmad Al-As`ad": they were to a person Christians. They must be on loan from the Lebanese Forces. So my last words to Prince Muqrin: good job o Prince. You are making progress. Just as Bush was making progress in Iraq. Keep it up.
Saif
ReplyDeleteOf course not. in fact i loved it . This whole trial business has really disturbed me ,that's why i spent a bit of time finding what the problem was,but let me tell you those religious freaks ended up with the sharp pointy end up their collective arses ,you would not believe the support MK got from a lot of prominent figures around the world ,from DARWICH and some Shia religious figures.
I feel raged about KSA stand during the GAZA's genocide .
Yes, I thought it was good for Fadlalah to speak out like that. Those particular sunni clerics that are funded by the Wahabis in Lebanon to agitate the Shiite are always trying to make shiites appear primitive.
ReplyDeleteAs'ad chooses to remain in denial ;
ReplyDeleteSez the Big Weasel :" Just as Bush was making progress in Iraq. ".
Progress has been made ,As'ad.
Remove Saddam & Sons .> Mission Accomplished !
Foster the rise of a robust democratic republic in Iraq >>
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !!
The " puppets " rule Iraq.
Yeah right....
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