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The Expansionist
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
 
Shia Control of Iraq Not So Bad? Amir Taheri's attempt to reassure us that Shiite domination of Iraq would not be a disaster fails because Shia is everywhere connected with extremism. (His use of the bizarre term "Saddamites" to scare us about the Sunni alternative is manipulative. How is that word to be pronounced? Like "sodomite"? Taheri is trying to use anti-gay bigotry to inspire anti-Sunni sentiment in readers. That is contemptible.)
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People who flagellate their own bare backs with chains until blood soaks their pants and runs down their legs are not to be trusted to be rational and moderate, toward themselves or others. There is exactly one country on Earth with a government dominated by Shiites: Iran. Can any sane person be reassured by that?
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(Responsive to "Iraqi Election of Doom", column by Amir Taheri, New York Post, December 21, 2004)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:40 PM




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