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On January 6th, the New York Times faulted the administration and declared:

Hanging Images Make Hussein A Martyr to Many in Arab World

Today the opening prayer for a Democrat winter meeting was conducted by Imam Husham Al-Husainy - video via Hot Air.

The image at right is taken from this USA Today story noting the celebration of Saddam's hanging, also quoting Imam Al-Husainy. It seems one of the things he has prayed for before today was the "murder" of Saddam.

The center's director, Imam Husham Al-Husainy, said members prayed for Saddam's death. Outside, traffic slowed as people drove in circles around the mosque, honking horns.

"This is our celebration of the death of Saddam," Al-Husainy said while standing on top of a car following reports by Iraqi state-run television that Saddam had been hanged. "The gift of our New Year is the murder of Saddam Hussein."

Here's a quote, ironically lifted from DailyKos:

But Imam Husham Al-Husainy, director of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn, said the United States owes it to the Iraqi people to help them remove the current Iraqi government. The Karbalaa center serves Iraqi Shiite Muslims, who have long fought the Sunni Muslim-dominated Iraqi government.
"We never voted for Saddam," Al-Husainy said.

What the Kos post details is how the Imam went from strongly supporting the invasion to reversing course, now wanting a US pull out because we toppled Saddam and cleared the way for the type of ethnic cleansing of Sunnis radical Shi'ites like Husainy would most likely embrace the minute our troops were gone. No other conclusion makes sense, as Iraq is not capable of standing on its own right now without precisely that type of result.

Also see here. The Dems are being played. The US deposed a brutal dictator for all Iraqis to find a way to live in peace. Now with the opposition gone, Husainy fuels anti-war sentiment with gruesome images from Iraq, offers no assurances he and his kind wouldn't enact the very kind of theocratic state the US fears - and they aren't even interested in saying thank you, so interested are they in getting down to the business of making Iraq look like the Killing Fields II.

And because it suits their cause, the Dems have no trouble embracing an alleged man of God who would pray for the murder of another. Does that jibe with your sense of a religious man?

Don't believe me? Listen to the prayer at the link above and click through to Jihad Watch and you'll know precisely which God it was the Dems were bowing their heads to today - his name begins with an A.

The problem is that U.S. officials fear that if the Shiite majority were to gain control, a theocratic state along the lines of Iran would be the result.

“I knew he would get rid of Saddam,” explains Al-Husainy.

But the image of American forces as liberators did not last long. It is quickly being replaced with that of “outsiders coming to occupy Muslim land,” says Al-Husainy.

It is easy to see ulterior motives — economic, military, political — behind the administration’s actions. In addition to distrust is frustration at the inability of coalition forces to quell violence and provide such basic necessities as reliable electric power.

Comments

[scarshapedstar]

"And because it suits their cause, the Dems have no trouble embracing an alleged man of God who would pray for the murder of another. Does that jibe with your sense of a religious man?"

Yeah. Who could be so heartless, I wonder? So callously dismissive of human life?

Oh, wait...

'In the week before [Karla Faye Tucker's] execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' "

"What was her answer?" I wonder.

"Please," Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "don't kill me."'

[Dan Riehl]

WTE are you talking about? Every SUnni in Iraq is a criminal I suppose? How do you manage so much hate?

[scarshapedstar]

Uh... just a minute, there, professor.

"Who could be so heartless, I wonder? So callously dismissive of human life?"

How you turn that into "Every Iraqi Sunni = Karla Faye Tucker"... I'm not even going to try and guess.

[Charles Warren]

"What the Kos post details is how the Imam went from strongly supporting the invasion to reversing course, now wanting a US pull out because we toppled Saddam and cleared the way for the type of ethnic cleansing of Sunnis radical Shi'ites like Husainy would most likely embrace the minute our troops were gone. No other conclusion makes sense, as Iraq is not capable of standing on its own right now without precisely that type of result."

The Iraqi Sunnis are not innocent victims. Their terrorism has been trying to provoke the Shiites for two years. If there is ethnic cleansing it is because the Sunnis did here damndest to provoke it. So why should we protect them from the consequences of their own actions ?

We owe the Iraqi Sunnis nothing more than we owed the Germans of the Sudeten or East Prussia.

[scarshapedstar]

Charles, you are aware that pretty much the only other Shi'ite country on earth is Iran, right? As in, we help the Sunnis, we look better in the eyes of 90% of the world's Muslims -- you know, the ones who are nominally our allies. The ones who had a democratically elected priesthood before America existed.

We help the Shi'ites, we create a new province of Iran.

[Charles Warren]

Scarshapedstar, you are genuinely dumb.

We saved the Bosnians and Kosovars to earn brownie points with the world's Muslims. We distributed food in Somalia to earn brownie points with the world's Muslims. We helped the Afghan mujihadeen to earn brownie points with the world's Muslims. Did it work ? Was Osama bin Laden grateful ? You think al-Qaeda is going to be 'grateful' to us ?

Arab governments being nominally our allies for reasons of their own has nothing to do with the man in the street hating 'infidels'.