Chechen leader Kadyrov & Chechen Muftiate ban Shiite self-torture rituals in Chechnya.

Chechen leader Kadyrov bans Shiite self-torture rituals in Chechnya. (CaucasianKnot).

A group of followers of the Shiite ritual of driving knives in heads has been revealed in Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov has held a preventive talk with the self-proclaimed Caliph of the community. The Chechen Muftiate has treated the beliefs of the group as contrary to Islam. Scientists are puzzled on how the cult of religious self-torture has entered Chechnya.

In January, a video appeared on the Internet, showing a group of men in one of the Middle East countries conducting some ritual. Five men had knives driven not deep into their heads. Their faces expressed no visible pain and blood.

The video also showed a Moscow Chechen Aslambek Zubairaev. On February 2, he had a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechnya's Mufti Salakh Mezhiev and other members of the clergy.

Aslambek Zubairaev was named the leader of a group of Chechens who took part in the ritual – the followers of one of the Shiite branches that had arisen in Iraq and is headed by Sheikh Mohammed al Kasnazani.

The actions of Zubairaev and his followers are contrary to Islam, said the official of the Chechen Muftiate. According to his story, the self-torture rituals are unacceptable from the point of view of Islam.

Residents of the republic also express their concern in connection with the spread of various religious trends in Chechnya.

They fear extremes in professing Islam, both on the part of radical Salafism, and on the part of radical traditionalism, said Alikber Alikberov, the deputy director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Video - Hidden camera experiment in the Shiite holy city Karbala. A Christian man asks another about a church.

Watch to find out.
Absolutely amazing Hidden camera experiment in the Shia holy city #Karbala. A Christian man asks another way to a church. pic.twitter.com/6mPPpnFpnt

— Iraqi Day 🇮🇶 (@iraqi_day) December 30, 2016

Hidden camera experiment in the Shia holy city #Karbala. Part 2 pic.twitter.com/tQIZrwP88b

— Iraqi Day 🇮🇶 (@iraqi_day) December 30, 2016

I leave it up to the reader to decide if these 'experiments' are staged or not?

Rouhani and the Iranian art of 'Khod’eh' a.k.a. Deception.

Rouhani and the Iranian art of 'Khod’eh' a.k.a. Deception.HT: JewishPress.

To understand the election of Rouhani as president of Iran, several points must be clarified:

The first is the Shi’ite practice of taqiyya. Ever since the birth of Shi’a in the middle of the seventh century CE, its adherents have been so persecuted by the Sunni majority that their lives were in constant danger and when they were caught, in many cases, they were brutally murdered. Over the years, in order to survive, Shi’ites developed the practice of taqiyya or “the need to survive”, which enabled them to endure in a hostile environment despite their faith and their political leanings. A basic component of taqiyya is khod’eh, which means deception, or pretense. During the 1350 years of the conflict with the Sunnis, the Shi’ites have developed the practice of taqiyya and khod’eh into an art. 

They have become so adept at it, that polygraph tests cannot detect the physiological phenomena that usually occur when a person lies, (involving changes in perspiration, production of saliva, heart rate, blood pressure, etc.) when the subject being investigated is a Shi’ite. And Western police departments are aware of this.

The second point is that the office of president in Iran is not like that in the United States, France or Brazil. In these states the president is the head of an executive pyramid, and his policy is the dominant factor in conducting the state’s business, because there is usually no authority above the president. 
In Iran, however, the presidency is the fourth level from the top, and there are three levels of religious authority above him: there is the supreme leader (today Ayatollah Khamene’i), under him is the Assembly of Experts and under that is the Council to Ensure the Interests of the Regime. All three of these agencies are staffed by religious authorities, and all of them are above the president, above the government and above the parliament. As a result, any Iranian “democratic” process has a very low level of authority, and the influence of the elected bodies on internal and foreign policy is quite limited.

Responsibilities of “the president” are also limited, and from our perspective, the salient point is that they do not include the nuclear project and the activity of the Revolutionary Guard.

These two matters are managed directly by the supreme leader. The elected bodies cannot dislodge the supreme leader from his position. 

All of the candidates for president must pass a meticulous “kashrut” test, and only a candidate who is thought to be an integral part of the ayatollahs’ regime can be a candidate in elections. Therefore, because of the limitations imposed by the structure of authorities as well as the candidate’s personality, there is no chance that the elected “president” will bring about a fundamental change to the character of the regime or in the way that the state functions.Read the full story here.