IRAQ

IRAQ - The Hyderabad Connection. Hyderabad in south India South India is a commonly used term that is used in India to refer to the South-of-India or Southern India. The Southern part of the Indian peninsula is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the was ruled by the Golconda Shiite state, aspart of the Safawite Shiite empire, in the 1500s and 1600s. That part ofIndia still has an old Shiite community headed by a group of grandayatollahs who are deeply respected by the Shiite religious leaders ofIraq, Iran, Lebanon and other parts of the Middle East. The Hyderabad connection is considered quite important amongreligious leaders of the Jaafari order of Shiism. This is mainly for tworeasons: 1. With an important part of the community originating from Iraq,some of the religious leaders in Hyderabad are of Najafi origin and aredescended directly from the family of Imam Ali (This article is an encyclopedia entry on Ali ibn Abi Talib that is to be compiled with the objective of providing an alternate, but equally qualified, historical biography from the overlooked historical records and personal accounts of Orthodox Shi'a sources. . Their Hawzah (spiritualauthority) is particularly respected because the grand ayatollahs thereare men of high learning and have established Ijtihads (acceptedtheories resulting from their interpretations of the Qur'an and theHadith hadith(hädēth`), a tradition or the collection of the traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, including his sayings and deeds, and his tacit approval of what was said or done in his presence. ). 2. The Hyderabad Shiites have a community living in the UK, mostlyin London, and the Deccan Herald The Deccan Herald is the largest English-language daily newspaper in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is published by the Printers (Mysore) Private Limited and has a number of editions in Bangalore, Hubli, Mysore, Mangalore and Gulbarga. is their mouthpiece. Because theEnglish language English language,member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. is most common in India and in communications betweenHyderabad Shiites and fellow Jaafaris in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and therest of the Muslim world The term Muslim world (or Islamic world) has several meanings. In a cultural sense it refers to the worldwide community of Muslims, adherents of Islam. This community numbers about 1.5-2 billion people, about one-fourth of the world. , the Deccan Herald has always been a mediumthrough which these communities and their leaders communicate. Equallyimportant is that the editorial board of the Deccan Herald is connecteddirectly to the Hawzah of Hyderabad. This should explain why the Iraqi Shiites complained to the DeccanHerald in particular about Shahwani and his American/CIA connection. Itshould also explain why the Al-Khou'i Foundation is based in Londonand has intimate links to Hyderabad as well as with editors at theDeccan Herald. Other Confusing Connections: The most frustrating aspect of theUS-led presence in Iraq is that, perhaps because this was the cradle ofall civilisations, Baghdad has always been the capital of theworld's conspiracy theories ''This is a list of conspiracy theories; it contains alleged conspiracies that are not accepted by mainstream academics. For a discussion of conspiracy theories in general, see conspiracy theory. . This is the land of Ali Baba Ali Baba40 thieves concealed in oil jars. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights]See : ConcealmentAli Babauses magic to find thieves’ storehouse of booty. [Arab. Lit. and theForty Thieves, including some religious men who claim to be honest butin reality have wordly priorities other than God's wishes. Equally important to note is that Iraq, like any other country withan old history, is a mosaic of people who range from the nation-smartsto the street-smarts - but in Iraq the range is quite long and includesreligious people who lie just as easily as they eat or drink. Al-kithbatul-Iraqiya (the Iraqi lie) is famous among Arabs. So is al-taqiyah (theact, sanctioned in Shiism and other religions including Judaism - whenthe community is under persecution or in a state of war - as a means ofself-defence, of disguising oneself as being anything but a Shiite. Thisis also being practiced in Iraq and elsewhere by Wahhabis and otherbranches of Sunnism). It was through al-taqiyah that 19 Wahhabi hijackers of Osama BinLaden's Qaeda managed to destroy the World Trade Centre in New York New York, state, United StatesNew York,Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and hit the Pentagon on 9/11. This is how, it is said, the Jordanianterrorist called Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi and other Wahhabi terroristsmanaged to sneak into Iraq's Sunni Triangle - if indeed Zarqawireally does exist in Falluja. In such an atmosphere, who can tell whether Muqtada Al-Sadr isfooling Ahmad Chalabi - or the other way round - if the two have fallenout; or whether SCIRI SCIRI Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution In Iraq and its Iranian allies are fooling Sistani? Yethabl el-kithb qassir (the string of the lie is short - another popularArab saying).