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India-Pakistan
Why are Pakistani Shiites 'disappearing'?
2019-07-10
[DW] Scores of Shiite Moslems have reportedly gone missing in Pakistain in the past few years. Activists claim that they have been picked up by the country's intelligence agencies after they returned from Syria and Iraq.

Authorities say that many of the "missing persons" had gone to conflict-ridden countries like Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and never returned to Pakistain. Those who did come back were allegedly taken into custody by security agencies, although their families say they are unaware about their whereabouts.

Since the start of the Syria conflict in 2010, many people from across the world have traveled to the Middle East to fight for either the "Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" (IS) terror outfit or Iran-allied Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
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But Shiite organizations and activists in Pakistain say that the Syria connection is just an excuse for Pak authorities to target Shiites, who make up around 10% of the Moslem-majority country's 180 million population.

"Most of the 'missing Shiites' have no bully boy background. I'm not ruling out the possibility that some may have gone to Syria to fight for the regime, but some 150-160 missing persons simply went on a pilgrimage to Iran, Iraq and Syria," Shiite activist Rashid Rizvi told DW. "Even if they committed a crime, they should be produced before a court of law," he added.

Pakistain, a Sunni Moslem-majority country, is closely allied to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
. Riyadh and Tehran are locked in a number of conflicts across the Middle East. Pak Shiites' opposition to Riyadh is directly in conflict with the state policy, although Islamabad says it likes to keep cordial ties with both Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Posted by:trailing wife

#11  Fashion?
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-07-10 16:57  

#10  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
Monty Python 'Splitters'
Posted by: Glenmore   2019-07-10 15:53  

#9  Religious Calvinball
Posted by: Frank G   2019-07-10 13:55  

#8  Oh ! Confounding bastiches aren't they all ?

the specifics of the Alawite faith are hidden not just from outsiders but even from the majority of the Alawites themselves Now that's mystical indeed ! Probably a make-up-as-you-go cult.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-10 13:27  

#7  They're distinct sects, Dron66046.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2019-07-10 10:25  

#6  The Alawites, aren't they the same things ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-10 10:07  

#5  an interesting sect of Islam is the Alevis

they are devotees of the 12th iman but are not really Shiite

they worship in halls not mosques and they are quite numerous in Turkey (somewhere greater than 10% of the population, possibly as much as a third)

they don't seem to have involved in any or the bombings, kidnappings, etc. of the past few decades
Posted by: lord garth   2019-07-10 09:07  

#4  um.. they're down the well with the 12th imam?
Posted by: Joter Forkbeard6210   2019-07-10 07:26  

#3  It could even have a women's only sport.

'Escaping The Arab slaverHusband.' Points for number of hours spent free before re-capture at the airport. Whoever gets to an embassy wins.

Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-10 06:53  

#2  However, the Dawoodi and other Bohra sects of Shia islam also harbor some of the most despicable practices in the world, marriage of minors to older men.

Dawoodi and other Bohra sects? One needs to remember Moohamhead (54, 56?) himself was a notorious pedphile-child rapist. (6 year old in the Hadiths). Citing the Pig Profit as the "perfect example", all islamic fundamentalist sects practice child rape.

As to Shiites going missing. I'm still waiting for Synchronized chain flogging to become the first islamic Olympic sport.

The Floggings could be judged in several categories:
-Depth of wounds on their backs and on the backs of their beaten wives, as called for in the Koran.
-Volume of the self beaters hateful rants and threats about all Democratic countries.
-Bonus points are given ahead of time for the number of the contestants sisters who are married off before the age traditional Arab pedophile prefered age of 9. (Just like Muhamhead)
The Gold Medal winners will be allowed to bleed to death or blow himself up.

Losers in the contest would also rewarded with 72 virgin sheep.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-07-10 05:25  

#1  Probably lying in mass graves in the Sunni dominant regions or slaving away in dark holes for the Chinese.

Only the Ahmadi and Sufi, apart from some Nizari Shiites deserved to live anyway. And the Sunnis started with them. Not many real human beings left there. Not worth even strategic sympathy, unless we were trying to install a Shia regime. Which would also be useless.

The Shias, although regarded as moderate and reasonable people in this part of the world, are only afforded this stature because they did not do away with art and culture like the mad wahabi mullahs The goat beards and itchy pubes variety , but merged certain parts of their art, literature and music with the Indian contemporary forms. Now they present a relatively moderate visage to communities.

However, the Dawoodi and other Bohra sects of Shia islam also harbor some of the most despicable practices in the world, like FGM, stoning for the minutest 'infraction', group rape as punishment, marriage of minors to older men. Not to mention the allowance of certain superstitions in the Shia creeds; which leads to barbarous 'exorcisms', quackery and malpractice even among trained, educated Shia doctors who hide their cultural baggage from colleagues but practice unethical doctrines as part of medicine.

This practice of self-flagellation is a Shia thing.


The scalp is to be cut into as initiation.




Future WMDs in construction

If moslems are killing each other, we must help them along. There's no better way to save the planet. I would rather that we could save the women and children, but there's a reason for why God used to command things like "Slay young and old...man and woman..."
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-10 02:38  

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