Iraqi Shiites burn effigies of President George W. Bush and Secretary

of State Condoleezza Rice during a protest against a security treaty

between the U.S. and Iraq, Oct. 18, 2008. Are Shiites 'ungrateful' to

America, after Washington put power back in their hands?

America's Justified 'Hatred' of Iraqi Shiites (Sotal Iraq, Iraq)

"I believe that it is Americans who have every right to hate Shiites - because Shiites are ungrateful. Everything they have is thanks to the Americans, who uprooted and toppled Saddam's regime and handed them power after centuries of continuous Sunni persecution."

By Dr. Fariq Kamouna

Translated By Amel Ben Aissa

September 12, 2012

Iraq - Sotal Iraq - Original Article (Arabic)

First of all, I want to thank all of those who write as if for the hearts of the people. The tragedy is that no one reads or cares about what you or any other noble Iraqi writes. For they - by which I mean the people you write about - are too busy looting booty they haven't dreamed of for dozens of not hundreds of years, to pay any attention to you.

In any case, let's get back to the issue of Shiite hatred. I believe that it is Americans who have every right to hate Shiites - because Shiites are ungrateful. Everything they have is thanks to the Americans, who uprooted and toppled Saddam's regime and handed them power after centuries of continuous Sunni persecution. But under the direct orders of Iran, and with the help of Iran's many agents in Iraq (no need to name them here) - they began fighting the Americans.

This validates one of Saddam's comments that the Dawa Party, the Mahdi Army and, so-and-so’s party, are "Iranian agents." If the Palestinians themselves agree on the need for peace with Israel, then who is responsible for magnifying Shiite hostility against Israel - and why? Is this some kind of competition or attempt to show off ? And why would young Shiites rush to defend vindictive Palestinian- Sunnis who send their people to kill Shiites? These, sir, are empty and pointless ideals, which lead only to the ruin of countries - just as Saddam’s pointless policies did, and as Nasrallah’s latest war on Israel will.

Here I would like to ask: which would be best for Iraqi progress and development, an alliance with Iran or the United States? Only harm can come to us from Iran's Shiites. A wise man would say: Close the door through which the wind is blowing and rest easy. What will Iran’s empty boasting lead to except for a headache? Undoubtedly, all Shiites will be agitated by this and won’t accept it. After all, when the going gets tough, no one [no Shiites] step forward, just like our failed [Shiite founder] Al-Hussein, you can huff and puff all night about it, but what good will it do?

[Editor's Note: The author is obviously alienated from his fellow Iraqi Shiites, as this is a major insult. In the seventh century, Al-Hussein, who is recorded as a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, considered the ruling Umayyad Caliphate unjust, and sought to restore a "genuine" Islamic polity. He was beheaded, but his movement lived on and later toppled the Umayyad - forerunners of the Sunnis. This was the beginning of the great Sunni-Shiite schism].

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It a terrible shame that Shiites have no friends. But after all, they were the backbone of Saddam’s Fedayeen and made up a good number of his loyalists and members of the Ba'ath Party (then a close ally of today's Dawa Party). After Saddam's regime fell under American fire, all Shiites suddenly became turban-wearing sheikhs and members of thieving religious parties. Now after all that, how can America be blamed for hating Shiites? Best regards from a Shiite who hasn’t exactly been embraced by his fellows. But is obedience to authority all that matters?

[Editor's Note: The author asserts that the Dawa Party was working with the Saddam regime. It must be pointed out that the Dawa Party was founded in 1968 by Muqtada al-Sadr's father in law, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, in response to the Ba'ath regime's repression of Shiite religious schools].