Thursday, January 4, 2007

Sad End, Saddam?

Executed on the day when goats and sheep are sacrificed
Eid was celebrated two days later in India. Hence not many Indians know that Saddam was executed on the dawn of the most auspicious day of Muslims in the region, at a time when millions of people, both Shias and Sunnis, had gathered at Makkah to perform the sacred rites of Haj. This was also the day when the Muslim world sacrifices goats and sheep to please the God. That Saddam was hanged on that day itself cannot be without a purpose.
Millions of Muslims come to Haj from all corners of the globe. A small spark of sectarian divide there would have clearly divided the Muslim world into two distinct blocks, already being propagated as Sunni and Shia triangle by the Western media. This apparent division is a new coinage to divide and was never heard of till now, as all the countries of the region have mixed population of Shias and Sunnis. The fact that this term was conceptualized and propagated by the West talks of a clear-cut plan to ignite bloodshed and hatred in the Muslim world.
A riot on Haj between Shias and Sunnis could have resulted in unimaginable consequences and would have further isolated Iran, Syria and Hizbollah, US’s biggest enemies of the day. That it didn’t happen shows that the Muslim world has started seeing into the game-plan. How long?

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