DANGEROUS GAME: SHIITE-SUNNITE CONFLICT
Our present unconscious (!) experience of
the “New Safavi Period” is the scene of Shiite-Sunnite
conflicts which will bring a heavy burden to the region.
About 500 years ago, The Safavis who came on stage to
convert the Iranian people to Shia, mercilessly and with
threat of swords made the people accept the fabrications in
the religion of Islam and made these misconceptions hold the
place of truths.
Within two centuries, this understanding
of state and the search of ideology Safavis implemented
against their enemies have fallen into the hands the clergy
known as “Mullahs” and the ideology axis Safavis sought,
began to diverge from its path. The divergence of the Shia
into these fabrications tried to be corrected but the late
“New Mullah Movement”, or the uprise to put it right,
shattered all plans of freedom of the Iran people once
again. The policy of Safavis to spread the Shia sect caused
big losses. Many regions, for example, departed from the
Iranian lands and Muslims who did not want to choose the
Shia sect voluntarily left this country and were no longer
Iranians. The Qajar Kingdom continued this period as the
“inheritor of the Shiite Safavis”. Thus fabrications,
bloodshed and treachery continued as before. This is why the
Shite-Sunnite wound always bled, never healing.
As it can also be seen today, the
geography which includes Iran is entering a new period of
Shiite-Sunnite conflict along with its same burden of
problems and losses. The policies of the Iranian regime
focused on the sectarian axis implemented in the Kurdistan
and Balouchistan regions populated mostly by Sunnites have
brought these regions to the verge of an outbreak. Today,
only weapons have a say in Balouchistan. The Sunnite
Balouchi argue that “they have no other choice than to take
up arms against the Government that has no other answer than
to kill and execute regarding the people of the region”. The
inner problems of the Balouchistan and Kurdistan regions
unfortunately have been carried beyond the border and have
been the foreshadowing of a dangerous future. As it was the
case during the Safavi period, “the sect factor” is
determining the regional foreign policy today.
The Tehran leadership hosted a conference
in last May on “the Islamic World, the Victim of Terrorism”
that dealt with terrorism which is the most important common
problem of our era, and many thinkers, intellectuals and
academicians from 28 countries participated in this
conference; the Tehran leadership complained claiming that
“following the September 11 attacks, when the slandering
campaign sustained by the West against Muslims intensified,
there had been efforts to identify the concepts of Islam and
terrorism with each other and that the West had been
“interpreting the definition of terrorism in line with its
own interests/desires” and it called on the “Muslims not to
get deceived by the ‘play of Shiite-Sunni division’ written
by the West”. However, does the Tehran leadership do all
these above-mentioned things in real life? Of course not!...
The Iranian regime is creating a
competitive environment from where it is impossible to get
out with victory due to its adventurous policies and its
impossible targets. Our “Marvelous” President who “set off
to become the apprentice of Hitler” reminds us of the famous
expression of Karl Marx with his statements and so-called
policies: “The history repeats itself, but at first in the
form of tragedy and secondly in the form of comedy!”.
Ahmadinejad who is acting as if he is the apprentice of
Hitler, and his supporters must know that they are dragging
themselves and Iran as well as the region into this
tragicomic game. As a matter of fact, a “Sunnite front” has
been emerging in the recent years vis-à-vis this “Shia
Empire” that is tried to be created by the Islamic Republic
of Iran, which still bases its domestic and foreign policies
on the Shiite understanding and applies a policy to suppress
and wear out the Sunnis both in and outside the country.
Western powers and especially the USA are trying to unite
countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, which are
concerned about the establishment of a Shia Empire, under an
“oppositional front”. In Iraq, which knows very well the
taste of the new sectarian war in the Middle East, the
situation is so serious that the wounded people are taken to
hospitals which are divided as Shiite or Sunnite. The wave
of violence created by the sectarian wars, which prevailed
in the country since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, is a
clear indication of the fact that the destiny of the region
strongly depends on Iraq. This wind that started to blow in
Iraq when the civil war, which had already broken out in
Iraq, divided the country as Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds will
turn into a storm and will soon affect the other countries.
This “secret” war waged at these
uncertain and numerous fronts by Iran, which keeps various
groups in Lebanon as well as Hamas in Palestine by its side,
is further deteriorating the economy which is already sick.
In fact, hopeless Iranians wondering what had happened to
the billions of oil revenues are still expecting to get
these oil revenues!...
Those ruling the Iranian regime are
trying to become the leaders of the Arab people through the
material assistance of hundreds of millions of dollars
provided to Shiite and Sunni Arabs as well as by the awkward
propaganda of Ahmadinejad related with the Jews. However,
these attempts will never be sufficient to change the
historical and cultural facts. Unfortunately they do not
notice that the concepts of Iran and Shia are creating an
unpleasant and threatening echo in the ears of Arabs. Iran,
which is supporting certain countries and groups like Syria,
Hamas and Hezbullah, will not be able to get anything from
these efforts. On the contrary, the escalation of the ethnic
and sectarian war in Iraq will result in the drowning of
Iran in that swamp, just as in the case of the USA. For this
reason, Mullahs should first think for a while and find an
appropriate answer to the question “what can they do with a
split up Iraq which stuck on Iran just like cancer?”.
In consequence, it is necessary to leave
reactionary activities and fanaticism aside in religion…
Meanwhile, one more thing to say to the Ahmadinejad regime:
Do not forget the embarrassing final of the Safavids!...
