Video - Christian Hashd Commander slams Turkish intrusion into Iraq "The Ottoman Empire era has ended and will not return!"

P. #Erdogan is declaring himself the defender of the Sunni-Umma in #Iraq. Competing with #ISIS? https://t.co/gBxvw4fSA0

— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) December 11, 2015

@EjmAlrai Pretty obvious Erdo wants the #Sunni part of #Iraq to join #Turkey. This will mean WAR.

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) December 11, 2015

Iran: "Saudi FM's comments contradict mutual diplomatic talks with Iran"

Iran: "Saudi FM's comments contradict mutual diplomatic talks with Iran" (Taz).

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian has criticized the recent remarks made by Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, the Islamic Republic’s official IRNA news agency reported Oct. 14.
Amir Abdollahian said that the FM's comments do not correspond to the atmosphere of diplomatic negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi FM accused Iran of being a part of problems in regional conflicts.

Iran must withdraw its "occupying" forces from Syria to help resolve that country's conflict, al-Faisal said Oct. 13.

"In many conflicts, Iran is part of the problem, not the solution," he said, adding that the Islamic Republic has forces in Syria "fighting Syrians."

Amir Abdollahian, responding to the comments, said that Iran helps Syrian and Iraqi governments in fighting terrorism, which is within the framework of international laws.

He also said that Saudi Arabia's military presence in Bahrain prevents achieving a political solution and a “national dialogue” between the government and opposition in the country.

Amir Abdollahian also recommended Saudi officials to “watch out for plots hatched by region’s enemies.”

Iran and Saudi Arabia have their differences over several regional issues such as the situations in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.

Iran is a close ally of the Syrian government and has always shown its support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

The Syrian opposition claim that Iranian military forces are fighting against them, while Iran dismisses the claims, saying that the country only has advisors in Syria to transfer its military experience to the Syrian army.

Sunni - Shiite hatred phenomenon - the 'Funeral Bombings' at least 40 killed, dozens wounded in Iraq.

Sunni - Shiite hatred phenomenon - the 'Funeral Bombings' at least 40 killed, dozens wounded in Iraq.(RT).

Around 50 people survived the funeral blast in Mussayab, 60km (40 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, with various injuries, Reuters reported. However, local police said more bodies remain trapped beneath the rubble in the bombed-out mosque.

“Until now, we are trying to retrieve bodies from under the debris. Most of the bodies were torn to pieces. Legs and hands were scattered on ground,” a policeman at the scene told the news agency.

The people at the funeral were said to be mourning the death of a man earlier killed by militants.

No group has immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, which is the latest in a string of attacks targeting places of worship and funerals of both Shia and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. One such recent chain of bombings killed at least 96 people in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.

Meanwhile, up to six people were killed and more than 60 wounded in a series of explosions in the city of Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, according to the Kurdish region’s health minister Raykot Hama Rashid.

A statement from the Kurdish security service Asayesh said a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the entrance to their Arbil headquarters. Asayesh forces then clashed with four more bombers, killing them, but the fight was followed by a blast of an explosives-rigged ambulance triggered by another insurgent.

The media has described the incident as rare, as the Sunday blasts were the first to hit Arbil since May 2007.

But Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki’s spokesman has linked the deadly attack to the raging conflict in neighboring Syria, where Kurdish forces have been fighting with jihadist groups.

“Syria has affected all of us,” the spokesman told AFP, adding that the attack may be “one of the offshoots of the Syrian crisis”.

Both Iraq’s Sunnis and Shias have been crossing into Syria to fight on opposite sides of the conflict.

This includes the terrorist groups, with al-Qaeda’s Iraqi and Syrian branches merging earlier this year to form the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has claimed responsibility for attacks – suicide bombings in particular – on both sides of the border.

More than 6,000 people have been killed in violent attacks in Iraq since the start of the year, according to monitoring group Iraq Body Count.Hmmmm.........Obama: If We Work Hard, Afghanistan Could Be a Success...Like Iraq!

Video - Antisemitism in Al-Azhar University's Friday Sermon: The Jews Are The Muslims' Worst Enemies.

Antisemitism in Al-Azhar University's Friday Sermon: The Jews Are The Muslims' Worst Enemies.

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, delivered by Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Mahdi, which aired on Channel 1, Egyptian TV, on May 10, 2013:

Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Mahdi: The Islamic nation, which is the guardian of Truth, must be aware of the conspiracies of Falsehood, and of the snares of those who lie in wait. Allah has taught [Muslims] that their worst enemies are those about whom He said: "You shall find the Jews and the polytheists to be the most hostile towards the believers" [Koran 5:82]. Thus, Allah made Jihad for His sake and endurance of pain and hardship effective means to fight the people of Falsehood.

The confrontation [with the Jews] is inevitable. Our Prophet does not lie. He told us that there would be a confrontation between the Muslims and the Jews before the Day of Judgment, and that the Muslims would vanquish them to the point that the Jews would hide behind the stones and the trees, but the stones and the trees would say: "Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." Prepare for that day, for it will surely arrive, because the divine revelation harbors no lies. Source: Memri.

Video - Sunni Muslim vs. Sunni Muslim - This is the real Pakistan.

Sunni Muslim vs. Sunni Muslim - This is the real Pakistan from Tarek Fatah on Vimeo.

Video - This is a debate between Sunni Muslim 'scholars' of the Taliban (Deoband) variety versus Sunni Muslim 'scholars' of the more indigenous Punjabi (Barelvi) HT: TarekFatah.

Video - Former Hizbullah Leader Subhi Al-Tufayli: Iran Forces Hizbullah to Participate in the Syrian War.

Video - Former Hizbullah Leader Subhi Al-Tufayli: Iran Forces Hizbullah to Participate in the Syrian War.

Subhi Al-Tufayli: I know for a fact that the vast majority within Hizbullah strongly oppose [joining] the Syrian war. However, a resolute decision to participate [in the war] has been imposed upon them.

Interviewer: By Iran?
Subhi Al-Tufayli: Yes.
Interviewer: Even Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah opposes this?
Subhi Al-Tufayli: I don't want to name names, but I'm talking about the situation at hand. Everyone realizes how dangerous this is. First, of all, this is internal strife among Muslims, which will be devastating to all. This is the beginning of things to come. I say to the Shiites, to Hizbullah, and to the non-Shiites as well: We are heading towards a horrific war, which will destroy everything. The fatalities will be numbered by the millions.
Interviewer: Fatalities on which side?
Subhi Al-Tufayli: Muslim fatalities. Hizbullah's joining the Aflaqi Ba'thists in the killing of the Syrian people invites Muslims from all over the world to come to Syria.
[...]
Interviewer: The [Syrian] opposition attacked Hermel.
Subhi Al-Tufayli: After we entered Syrian villages and bombed them, some shells fell [in Lebanon]. I am against this. I say to the Syrian opposition that this is a crime. Yet we must make it clear that the main responsibility for what has happened lies with the Shiite leaders who joined the war in Syria. If the people of Hermel, Baalbek, the north and the south of Lebanon wish to be safe, they should stay away from the war in Syria.
[...]
With regard to going to fight in Syria, the vast majority in Hizbullah are against it.Source: Memri.

Related: Fear In Lebanon Over Possible Slide Into Sectarian War.Memri.By: E. B. Picali.


The recent months have seen a considerable increase of tension between Sunnis and Shi'ites in Lebanon, to the extent that there is growing fear of a confrontation between the two sides – especially between the Shi'ite Hizbullah and Sunni Salafi elements. On February 27, 2013, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki – both of them Shi'ites – expressed concern that a sectarian war might break out in the region, including in Lebanon. Al-Maliki said to the television channel Russia Today: "If [the Syrian opposition] wins [the war in Syria], civil war will break out in Lebanon [as well]…"[1] Nasrallah said in a speech he delivered that day: "There are those who are accelerating Lebanon's descent into sectarian fighting, in particular fighting between Sunnis and Shi'ites."[2] Two weeks later, Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn, a Christian, likewise warned that "winds of civil war have appeared on the horizon."[3]
Arab and Lebanese press also warned against sectarian war in the country. Jean 'Aziz, a columnist for the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar,  claimed that the current climate in Lebanon is reminiscent of the eve of the civil war in 1975.[4] An April 2, 2013 editorial in the London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi claimed that "sectarian tension in Lebanon is awaiting only a match to light it," and that "Lebanon is gradually sliding towards the volcano of the Syrian revolution."[5]
The Sunni-Shi'ite strife in Lebanon is, to a great extent, a reflection of the sectarian tension in the region at large. This tension has grown in the last two years due to the emergence of a Sunni bloc in the region headed by Qatar and Turkey, which forms a counter-weight to the Shi'ite axis headed by Iran, and especially in light of Iran's involvement in Syria, Lebanon and the Gulf states. In addition to these regional factors, there are domestic factors that exacerbate the sectarian tension in Lebanon, namely: the involvement of the rival Lebanese factions in the Syrian war (the Shi'ite Hizbullah is fighting alongside the Assad regime against the Syrian rebels, most of whom are Sunni, whereas the Al-Mustaqbal faction and Salafis in Tripoli are supporting the rebels);[6] the exclusion of the Al-Mustaqbal faction, the primary representative of Lebanon's Sunnis, from the centers of power upon the establishment of the Hizbullah-dominated Mikati government in June 2011; Hizbullah's weapons, which many Sunnis believe are intended to guard sectarian, rather than national Lebanese, interests; and the growing power of the Salafis in Tripoli and of Salafi sheikh Ahmad Al-Asir of Sidon, who challenge Hizbullah's right to keep these weapons.
The sectarian tension in Lebanon has expressed itself in several violent incidents. The severest of them occurred on March 17, 2013, when four Sunni sheikhs were beaten and assaulted with cold weapons by Shi'ite youths in two different locations in Beirut. The incidents evoked a furious response by Sunnis, who held protests, blocked roads, burned tyres and even threw firebombs in Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon and Akkar (in Northern Lebanon).[7] The statement of Lebanese armed forces chief Jean Qahwaji, that March 17 had been "the most dangerous [day] in the last eight years in terms of [Lebanon's domestic] security,"[8] reflects the extent of the tension. However, it seems that tension between the sides rose even further in the last two weeks, after Salafi leaders issued fatwas calling on Sunni youths in Lebanon to embark on jihad in Syria in response to Hizbullah's involvement in the fighting there.
This report will review the escalation of sectarian tension in Lebanon during the recent months.Read the full story here.A must read.

Iraq’s Sunnis announced the formation of “military forces” to gear up against the country’s army.

Iraq’s Sunnis announced the formation of “military forces” to gear up against the country’s army.(AA).Residents of a number of Sunni cities in Iraq have announced the formation of “military forces” to counter attack the Iraqi army and its crackdown against protesters calling for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki – a Shiite – to step down, Al Arabiya reported on Thursday.

The announcements come after Sunni tribesmen were called to arm following a government sponsored military raid on a Sunni Muslim anti-government protest at a camp in Hawija, near Kirkuk, on Tuesday.

Dozens of people were killed and injured in the initial incident. It set off a wave of revenge attacks that hit five different Sunni-majority provinces, killing at least 110 people.

The violence is the deadliest so far linked to demonstrations that erupted in Sunni areas of the Shiite-majority country more than four months ago.

The Sunni-stronghold province of Anbar on Thursday has also announced the formation of its own “army” made from members from its local tribes.

“We have formed a tribal army that we named ‘The Dignity and Honor Army’ to defend ourselves against dirty militias,” Ahmed Abu Risha, head of the Iraq Awakening Movement in Anbar, told Al Arabiya.

The current Iraqi army is made of “sectarian militias,” and the “real Iraqi army” was the one that was dismantled by the “criminal” U.S. former official, Paul Bremer, Abu Risha said.

Bremer was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq after the toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.

Abu Risha urged Iraqi army members, hailing from the mainly Shiite southern tribes in the country, to defect and not take part in the crackdown against their “brethren” protesters.

There was also disintegration in the Iraqi army itself.

The Iraqi Member of Parliament, Sheikh Shaalan al-Karim, told Al Arabiya that there were members from the Iraqi army who have defected and joined tribes in the Sunni Saladin province.

The Sunni protesters have called for the resignation of Shiite Maliki and railed against the alleged targeting of their community by the authorities.

The anti-government furor has also led to the destruction of a pipeline carrying crude from the city of Kirkuk to Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.

The flow of oil has been halted, sources at Iraq’s North Oil Company told Reuters. Hmmmm....Obama: If We Work Hard, Afghanistan Could Be a Success...Like Iraq! Yup it's starting to look like it.Read the full story here.

Video - 'US govt deluded that it can control Muslim Brotherhood'.

Egypt has given the visiting U.S. Secretary of State a fiery reception - with a show of public anger against American support for the Muslim Brotherhood. F. William Engdahl, geopolitical analyst and author of "Myths, Lies and Oil Wars" told RT that Washington is starting to realize it may be supporting the wrong side in Egypt.